Back when I was involved in the preproduction of the film THE CRY OF CTHULHU I wrote a screenplay titled SHOGGOTH. The story was to take place on a fictional top secret Army base in the Mojave Desert next to a living ghost town that I called Sibley. I wasn’t happy with the name of the town and one afternoon I was struck by an epiphany and decided that since the script dealt partially with the origins of life on our planet, why not call it “Darwin.”
Several months later while studying maps of the Mojave, that I had obtained from the Bureau of Land Management, I discovered that there was an experimental research center out there that was run by the U.S. Navy occupying over a million acres. It was the Naval Weapons Center, the NWC. Scrutinizing the charts further, low and behold, I learned that smack dab at the north end of the NWC property line was the town of “Darwin.”
The Elder Ones most assuredly had pointed me in the right direction. Consequently, over the years, I was able to visit the NWC twice, getting permission to examine the many petroglyphs that lie within its borders thus obtaining valuable research for what eventually became my latest novel.
To learn more about my novel SHOGGOTH please visit Amazon.com
Several months later while studying maps of the Mojave, that I had obtained from the Bureau of Land Management, I discovered that there was an experimental research center out there that was run by the U.S. Navy occupying over a million acres. It was the Naval Weapons Center, the NWC. Scrutinizing the charts further, low and behold, I learned that smack dab at the north end of the NWC property line was the town of “Darwin.”
The Elder Ones most assuredly had pointed me in the right direction. Consequently, over the years, I was able to visit the NWC twice, getting permission to examine the many petroglyphs that lie within its borders thus obtaining valuable research for what eventually became my latest novel.
To learn more about my novel SHOGGOTH please visit Amazon.com
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