It's mentioned in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen [ in the prose novella included with the first volume of the comic ], though IIRC Randolph is John's great-nephew there.
More likely John Carter is a descendent of Randolph Carter or a distant nephew or something. After all, John seems like a stable fellow, even got his tenure at County in Chicago last year, though he did flit off to Africa just afterwards. Perhaps the relationship between Lovecraft's fiction and ER will be revealed in the upcoming season.
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Date: 2005-07-04 04:04 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-07-04 04:26 pm (UTC)Lots of commas, I note -- the curse of reading Augustan novels.
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Date: 2005-07-04 04:40 pm (UTC)Lovecraft wrote The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath in 1926-7 (according to the H. P. Lovecraft Archive (http://www.hplovecraft.com/)).
And A Princess of Mars appeared in 1917 (according to this bibliography (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/authors/Edgar_Rice_Burroughs.htm)).
That's a pretty tidy clump.
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Date: 2005-07-04 04:49 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-07-04 06:48 pm (UTC)Or did you mean a different John Carter?
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Date: 2005-07-04 07:08 pm (UTC)It couldn't possibly be a coincidence.
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Date: 2005-07-05 03:18 pm (UTC)What about Mary Ellen?
Date: 2005-07-05 06:01 pm (UTC)