H.P. Lovecraft used similar imagery and atmosphere: "The vast huddle of sagging gambrel roofs and peaked gables conveyed with offensive clearness the idea of w

H.P. Lovecraft used similar imagery and atmosphere: "The vast huddle of sagging gambrel roofs and peaked gables conveyed with offensive clearness the idea of wormy decay [...] Stretching inland from among them I saw the rusted, grass-grown line of the abandoned railway, with leaning telegraph-poles now devoid of wires, and the half-obscured lines of the old carriage roads to Rowley and Ipswich." http://hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/soi.aspx http://hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/soi.aspx