Discovering H.P. Lovecraft

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Darrell Schweitzer. Discovering H.P. Lovecraft

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For Robert Reginald,

with thanks and gratitude.

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We can presume that the unfortunate Gilman perished that year and that Asenath Waite was one of the student body, but those assump­tions are only a beginning. Consultation of the Journal of the American Psychological Society shows N.W. Peaslee than began to publish a se­ries of articles describing his strange dreams of earth’s non-human past. And on May sixth Albert N. Wilmarth, an instructor in literature, re­ceived a disquieting letter from the Vermont scholar Henry A. Akeley about extra-terrestrial creatures lurking in his native woodlands. In August Wilbur Whateley died horrifyingly while attempting to bur­glarize the Miskatonic library and steal the Necronomicon. On Septem­ber ninth Wilbur’s twin brother, who took after his non-human father to an even greater extent, broke loose near Dunwich, Massachusetts.

On September twelfth, Wilmarth, lured by a forged letter, set out to visit Akeley in Vermont. On the same day Dr. Armirage learned of the eruption of Wilbur’s twin brother.

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