 Newburyport, having taken its place in the Cthulhu Mythos canon, a mere schoolroom poltergeist, seems almost quaint, but it does make a person suspicious about what H.P. Lovecraft saw in his visit that fixed the town as an archetypal site for intercourse with the Elder Gods. As Lovecraft himself said, there may be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not. I dare not say myself.