The information I gathered is from January 11, 2013; so no I do not know of anyone else’s documentation besides my own investigation using an idea I got from Mike Davis’s E-magazine; Lovecraftzine.com. The particular article starts in an early 2012 issue:
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This magazine is endorsed by Joshi, and when documenting further developments I came across Joshi’s name referenced in some way to the magazine and like I said, I was only postulating, and was only advancing a theory that Lovecraft was immersed in and am sure that he would love to know this information, even if posthumously. If this isn’t current information directly related to HP then I do not know what is.
The second article is the findings from just this month on the drilling;
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I am sorry I used Joshi’s name without verifying verbatim his words, all I said was I read Joshi’s notes and am curious to hear his ideas, and that I could be wrong and just postulating.
I started this thread with an innocent comment and you seem to be stringing me along on a leash, making me elaborate on my intentions.
To change the subject back to New Literature; the last book that I read that really captivated me and really scared me was Jeff Long’s 1999 book The Descent. There was a movie with the same name, but is not based on the book, although the movie can be related to about two pages total of the book.
This story has a level of Dante’s hell, as a group of hikers climbing a mountain come across a hidden tunnel, and further developments take them through an underground labyrinth that is reminiscent of the hollow earth theory. Some parts of the book reminded me of CAS’s The Seven Geases, journey through abyssal depths, reaching various rendezvous catacombs deep underground in a world and with an underground society of humans descended from modern man eons ago. The final depths also reminded me of the HP’s The Beast in the Cave, as the prisoners are left to wander in the dark tunnels, knowing there is some evil entity that is following them, which turns out to be a similar species, kept down in the darkness away from the light.
I was captivated by the book after reading the first one hundred pages of set-up, I was unable to put the book down. Although in hindsight there are a few flaws, and a third story line about the military trying to access the tunnels for their own security. It also reminded me of William Dietrich’s excellent book that has underground tunnels that link underneath the Pacific to the Egyptian and Inca’s pyramids and I think somewhere off the Bermuda Triangle. He also theorizes the Jewish escape from Egypt with the scrolls and the ark of the covenant. Although not mysterious strange fiction an excellent exciting piece of fiction that makes you think what really happened. As for The Descent, everyone seems to believe that it is based on the movie or the reverse, don’t make the mistake of dismissing the book because you didn’t like the shallowness of the movie.
I hope this concludes our discussion on HP’s Mountain of Madness theory, for which I will keep to myself. I like to make connections where they might not exist, but I think sometime this extrapolation will be made and be of some interest.
Any comments on The Descent or William Dietrich would be interesting what other readers have thought.