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It strikes me as very ‘70s in some ways: the paranoia, the downbeat ending, even the interest in the pulps of the 40s (a lot of pulp material was republished in paperback in the ‘60s and ‘70s, but there was in addition a 'behind the scenes' interest fostered by things like the autobiographical material interweaved with the stories in The Early Asimov). It makes me wonder if Fulci or his screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti were aware of this story. It helped that I thought I detected prefigurings of elements in some of Italian director Lucio Fulci's better-regarded films - the figure of Althol is, superficially, rather like Dr Freudstein in 'The House by the Cemetery', and the whole idea that zombies would figure heavily in a Lovecraftian apocalypse is seen in 'The Beyond' and 'City of the Living Dead'. I don't actually get scared reading horror stories, but there were a couple of moments in Sticks that can as close as anything I've read. Karl Edward Wagner's afterword reveals that the stick designs were originally discovered by Weird Tales artist Lee Brown Coye in much the same way as Colin Leverett in the story, and subsequently appeared as a signature in his work. Well, it was unsettling to learn that there's a basis of truth in this Lovecraftian zombie story. I wrote this last night, and I haven't looked at what anyone else has written. I liked the idea of the sticks being evocative of a greater pattern that it seems necessary to evoke - unconsciously and unwittingly - in the minds of many people before the Great Old Ones can do their work. If any mention is made of a war, the horror will take place during it or a veteran will feature in it. It seems an underused context in horror stories. I thought the 1942 opening was very effective in terms of the quite specific mood and situation that it establishes for a story - a man going off to war and maybe not returning.
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Rothman seems to have been looking at similar things and inspired that association of European horror creeping into the New World - though, of course, the Margaret Murray influenced witch cults of Lovecraft are of a similar vein. The references to megaliths and cults transplanted to America from Europe put me in mind of Barry Fell though I see his America BC is after this story. >9 KentonSem: Even without knowing this stuff - beyond that somehow Coye's work inspired this story - there was a semi-metafictional air to the story with the references to horror writers and artists and small presses. Here is a current view of the Mann Brook area in Google Maps: Coye was eventually able to locate the site, but due to what seemed to be flash flooding and other abuse from the elements, all of the structures and evidence had vanished. Apparently Rothman was looking for megaliths and other strange man-made structures in the area as evidence. Later on, in 1962-63, Coye was urged to try to locate the Mann Brook site by a folklore expert named Andrew Rothman (disguised as Strefoi, in the story), who was trying to make a NY connection with the ''New Light' cult, led by Shadrach Ireland in the Harvard area, ca. Shortly after his return home, his signature 'sticks' began showing up in his artwork: Some of them covered a whole wall huge, fantastic murals. The drawings were applied directly to the walls, that is, right on the wall paper and plaster. I went inside and on the walls in some of the rooms were drawings, in what appeared to be charcoal, of these weird, abstract concoctions. The lawn and the trees and even the house were covered with these structures. It was fast falling into the ground nearly swallowed up by the undergrowth and weeds and rampant lilac bushes but you could see what had once been a lawn and there were shade trees. Roughly two miles from my starting point I came upon the ruins of a house. It had a definite third dimension, except it was so abstract and useless it was just a conglomeration of sticks and wire woven into the fabric of tree branches. One I remember could have been a child's tree-house. Sometimes these structures were stuck in a pile of stones or a stone wall – sometimes they were nailed in trees.
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I cannot describe them adequately so will have to draw pictures. Sticks from trees and bits of board nailed and wired together in a fantastic array. There were all sorts of strange contraptions. Here are some snippets from Coye's correspondence as he remembered his trip to the Mann Brook area of New York and what he found there: