Zaman's Hill

Zaman's Hill is an imaginary place mentioned in H. P. Lovecraft's poetry. It is the subject of the sonnet "Zaman's Hill" in the sonnet sequence Fungi from Yuggoth, and is mentioned in the poem "The Ancient Track."
== Fungi from Yuggoth ==
In "Zaman's Hill," the "great hill" was a "green, tall, and wooded" summit that hung over "the old town." It was a "man-shunned slope," because for 200 hundred years there had been whispers of "oddly mangled deer or bird" found there, and boys who got lost there did not reappear.
One day the unnamed village at the foot of the hill disappeared--people and houses both. A mail carrier was thought mad for saying he had seen the "great hill’s gluttonous eyes, and jaws stretched wide."
== The Ancient Track ==
In "The Ancient Track," the hill is first a familiar landmark that reassures him that he well knows the place he's revisiting:I knew what shadows would be cast
When the late moon came up at last
From back of Zaman’s Hill, and how
The vale would shine three hours from now.Later, the hill signifies how unfamiliar his old haunts are:And over Zaman’s Hill the horn
Of a malignant moon was born,
To light the weeds and vines that grew
On ruined walls I never knew.
== Location ==
Zaman Hill appears to be part of Lovecraft Country; when it eats its neighboring village in "Zaman's Hill," the people who come to gape are from Aylesbury. In "The Ancient Track," after noting the moon rising above the hill, the narrator sees a milestone that says "Two miles to Dunwich." This suggests a location to the east of Dunwich, between Dunwich and Aylesbury.
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