Selected Stories of H.P. Lovecraft

Explanatory notes

  1. ^ Lovecraft did not coin the term "Cthulhu Mythos". Instead, this term was coined by later authors.[1]
  2. ^ The house was later moved to 65 Prospect Street to accommodate the building of Brown University's Art Building.[102]
  3. ^ He wrote several travelogues, including one on Quebec that was his longest singular work.[108]
  4. ^ This is the only one of Lovecraft's stories that was published as a book during his lifetime.[119] W. Paul Cook previously made an abortive attempt to publish "The Shunned House" as a small book between 1927 and 1930.[120]
  5. ^ "Grippe" is an archaic term for influenza.[124]
  6. ^ L. Sprague de Camp also stated that the two men began calling each other "Monstro". This is a direct reference to the nicknames that Lovecraft gave to some of his correspondents.[203]
  7. ^ Lewis Theobald, Jun., the full version of Grandpa Theobald, was derived from the name of Lewis Theobald, an eighteenth-century Shakespearean scholar who was fictionalized in Alexander Pope's The Dunciad.[269]

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