La Pesanta… and the Institut d’Estudis Primigenis

Logo of La Pesanta

Logo of Institut d'Estudis Primigenis

Many times, without even thinking about it and accidentally, you discover pearls deserving to make known, as is with today’s post in which I will talk about La Pesanta and the Institut d’Estudis Primigenis.

Screen capture of La Pesanta

La Pesanta as such appears in August of 2021 as a Twitter account promoting terror and Catalan folklore and does so using as a reference the mythic beast to create a space to chat about literature, cinema, and other related activities.

Nowadays, besides having his own website, created in November of 2022, he is also present at Mastodon and BlueSky social networks with the goal of promoting all things in Catalan language about terror, mythology or fantasy, with a special focus in films, books and roleplaying games.

H. P. Lovecraft and Ambrose Bierce

Joan Santamaria and Edgar Allan Poe

In his website there’s also available for everyone articles which may be interesting for all the genre fans and recently has begun to publish regularly the «Contes estranys» section, offering of tales in Catalan language of genre authors in the public domain, like translations of H. P. Lovecraft and Ambrose Bierce, or by Catalan authors like Joan Santamaria, publishing today L’Organista, which appeared originally in 1915 in the Narracions Extraordinàries series, influenced by Edgar Allan Poe writings.

Screen capture of the Institut d'Estudis Primigenis

In February of 2025 initiated the collaboration with the Institut d’Estudis Primigenis (and yes, I also collaborated to start it ☺).

The Institut is devoted to collect material in Catalan language associated with arcane and Old Ones mythology. The new portal offers exhaustive references to all these materials, allowing the general public to discover unknown information. The history of this prestigious but discrete institution is also offered as well, allowing to explore part of the documentary collection, including unpublished documents.

What more can I say? I’m sure that all the information you will find at La Pesanta and the Institut d’Estudis Primigenis will be interesting if you are fans of the fantastic genre and like to read in Catalan or are learning the language, and because the Day of Sant Jordi is coming soon it’s the perfect time to know new things.

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