Proppingupthemythos
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🕑 Added 2019-11-20 01:59:09 +0000 UTCHappy Patron's Day!
As a thank you for your support, I wanted to share a delightful find from my research. This is an excerpt from a letter from Nov. 18th, 1930 to Clark Ashton Smith:
“Oh, yes ---Abdul mentioned your ghoul, & told of other adventures of his. But some timid reader has torn out the pages where the Episode of the Vault under the Mosque comes to a climax --- the deletion being curiously uniform in the copies at Harvard & at Miskatonic University. When I wrote to the University of Paris for information about the missing text, a polite sub-librarian, M. Leon de Vercheres, wrote me that he would make me a photostatic copy as soon as he could comply with the formalities attendant upon access to the dreaded volume. Unfortunately it was not long afterward that I learned of M. de Vercheres’ sudden insanity & incarceration, & of his attempt to burn the hideous book which he had just secured & consulted. Thereafter my requests met with scant notice --- & I have not yet looked up any of the other few surviving copies of the Necronomicon.”
I am actively researching the letter Smith had sent to HPL as I want to know more about this ghoul!
Comments
Mandy Reznor (She_It)
Here: http://www.eldritchdark.com/writings/short-stories/80/the-ghoul
Mandy Reznor (She_It)
It's actually a Smith tale, "The Ghoul."
