![]() The record has both human and buzzing imitations of human speech.Īkeley’s correspondence mentions gun battles with human agents of the Mi-Go and shooting at the flying Mi-Go themselves. We get the first mention of Shub-Niggarath, the Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young. Smith had mentioned Tashoggua in letters to Lovecraft who was quite willing to meld them into his cycle.Īkerley sent a phongraph record to Wilmarth of an overheard ritual. Tsathoggua is a creation of Clark Ashton Smith who would make his first appearance in “The Tale of Satampra Zeiros” in the November 1931 issue of Weird Tales. So Lovecraft immediately began incorporating Howard ideas into his fiction. Kathulos is from “Skull-Face” (Oct-Dec., 1929). Lovecraft had started corresponding with REH in mid-June 1930 when he was writing “The Whisperer in Darkness.” Bran Mak Morn made his first appearance in “King of the Night” in the November 1930 issue of Weird Tales. “Bran” and “L’mur-Kathulos” are from Robert E. “I found myself faced by names and terms that I had heard elsewhere in the most hideous of connexions–Yuggoth, Great Cthulhu, Tsathoggua, Yog-Sothoth, R’lyeh, Nyarlathotep, Azathoth, Hastur, Yian, Leng, the Lake of Hali, Bethmoora, the Yellow Sign, L’mur-Kathulos, Bran, and the Magnum Innominandum.” In the course of description of the correspondence, Lovecraft throws in a pot pourri of Cthulhu Mythos names: “The things come from another planet, being able to live in interstellar space and fly through it on clumsy, powerful wings which have a way of resisting the ether but which are too poor at steering to be of much use in helping them about on earth.” Wilmarth receives letters from Henry Akeley in Vermont that the things are around his farm and watching him. Lovecraft then goes on to tie the Vermont myths to Welsh and Irish myths of the little people and the Abominable Snow Man. There is exposition on strange myths about creatures in the Vermont back country going back to the Indians. So we have another entry in a Lovecraft monster based on sea-food. “The were pinkish things about five feet long with crustaceous bodies bearing vast pairs of dorsal fins or membranous wings and several sets of articulated limbs, and with a sort of convoluted ellipsoid, covers with multitudes of very short antennae, where a head would normally be.” ![]() The story starts with floods in Vermont in 1927 and reports of things found floating in the water. He is an instructor of literature at Miskatonic University and amateur student of New England folklore. The story is told in first person by Albert Wilmarth. ![]() The story is set in rural Vermont instead of Massachusetts. The Complete Fiction states he wrote the story from Februto September 26, 1930. “The Whisperer in Darkness” amounts to 26,624 words. Edmond Hamilton was present with the Fortean “The Earth Owners.” Part 1 of Alexandre Dumas’ “The Wolf-Leader” rounded out the issue. August Derleth’s “Prince Borgia’s Mass” is one of his stories of the Renaissance Italian city states. Part 2 of Otis Adelbert Kline’s Edgar Rice Burroughs pastiche “Tam, Son of the Tiger” was more typical pulp fare. Wallace West’s “Moon Madness” is actually a good story. ![]() Lovecraft had competition within the issue of Weird Tales mainly from Clark Ashton Smith who was coming on strong as a weird fictioneer. These had been influenced by Donald Wandrei’s “Sonnets of the Midnight Hours” that had run from May 1928 to May 1929 in Weird Tales. Lovecraft’s main entries in late 1930 to early 1931 had been the “Fungi From Yuggoth” cycle of sonnets. The end result of Lovecraft revisions of other people’s stories generally ended up something that was mostly Lovecraft. ![]() Zealia Brown Reed’s “The Curse of Yig,” essentially a Lovecraft story was in the November 1929 issue of Weird Tales. It had been over two years since a story has appeared under his name. Lovecraft’s next story in Weird Tales, “The Whisperer in Darkness” appeared in the August 1931 issue. ![]()
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