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Yeah, a guy can only handle so much widening of imaginary perception...I think that was the Genius of Howard and Poe...Their stuff sucked you in so deep you would start to realize there is a gray area between fantasy and reality. They managed to tread so skillfully through and around that gray area. And of course their storytelling was so powerful and visual that it was easy to forget you were following events in a fabricated world. I'm not sure that Poe ever mentioned any real towns or places in his stories, or for that matter even mention locales period. It was always so forgotten valley, or an ancient underground passage or whatever
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