So that forced us to look for that specific place that would fit the story and the name. Ethan Carter is a very British/American name. It’s only when we started marketing the game and telling everyone that the game is not taking place in any specific location when we realized that no, it’s not “a story that can happen almost anywhere” when your main character is named Ethan Carter, and not, say, Kajetan Woznica. It’s a story that can happen almost anywhere, be it United States or Poland.Īt least that’s what we thought. “No, but we love this idea, and from now on we’re going to stick with it.” And that is why we tell everyone that it was Randolph Carter who inspired Ethan’s last name.Īs you can see, in 1930s they really loved their “The Something of Someone” template (The Vanishing of Simmons, The Statement of Randolph Carter, etc.) for a title, and we respected that tradition with the title for our own game.Īn ancient evil ruling a remote valley tries to stop a private detective from finding a missing boy. But then one day a fan asked us if “Carter” was a nod to another story from the Weird Tales magazine: Lovecraft’s The Statement of Randolph Carter. It’s the same with the name of “Ethan Carter.” There’s no clear inspiration behind it, it just came to us, subconsciously, and felt right. “No, that’s not what it’s about”, answered the poet, “But your interpretation is much better, so from now on I’m going to stick with it.” There is this great anecdote about a poet who met a fan at a party, and that fan passionately analyzed one of the poet’s works. There’s both poetry and mystery to the “vanishing” word, and that is exactly the message we wanted the title to express. The title is inspired by The Vanishing of Simmons, the story by August Derleth, a writer best known for being the first publisher of Lovecraft. But even though we liked some of them a lot, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter was always our favorite. We created a list of proposals that included titles like The Incident in Red Creek Valley, Midnight Detective, and The Case of Ethan Carter. We went through all the books and all the magazines, including the famous Weird Tales.
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