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From Stonehenge to Rapa Nui: Donald Wandrei and the return of the Titans

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Taking both hands from the "Weird" literature of HP Lovecraft e Arthur Machen and combining the proceeds with the hypotheses of Charles Fort and the theosophical and "Atlantean" doctrines, Wandrei's 1932 novel was able to anticipate if not actually shape most of the cultural currents ascribable to the so-called "alternative reality" of the second part of the twentieth century: from the "magic realism" of Jacques Bergier to the "paleo-astronautics", from the encounter with extraterrestrial civilizations up to some dystopian predictions that today, almost a century later, do not seem science fiction at all.

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He who looked into the abyss: HP Lovecraft and "The ocean at night"

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In "The Night Ocean", the last story written by the Providence Dreamer before his premature death, the profound relationship of communion and at the same time of "cosmic terror" towards the oceanic element and its abysmal depths is revealed in a complete way,ย from Lovecraft experienced firsthand.

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Bada Valley: the โ€œxenomorphicโ€ megaliths in the jungle

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We visited the island of Sulawesi, in the Indonesian archipelago, and ventured into the rainforest of Lore Lindu in search of the mysterious Patung, megalithic sculptures of only partly anthropomorphic aspect which constitute for archaeologists (but also for natives) a real enigma. Taking into account the various hypotheses regarding the cults of ancestors, those of fertility and supposed human sacrifices, we will try to connect them in aย framework as coherent as possible.

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