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Originally Posted by Ningauble  Correct. The greater part of the text was taken from a November 1927 letter to Donald Wandrei, and Miske added the opening and closing sections. I still consider the fragment a fake -- it wasn't intended as a story, and the addition of a narrator named "Howard Phillips" living at 66 College Street is just wrong (especially since the real HPL didn't move there until 1933). And Miske had told Derleth about his little deception as soon as Derleth himself published the "fragment" in 1948 (?), but Derleth still continued to include it. |
Ah, thanks for the refresher on that.... I'd started to put Wandrei, but didn't trust my memory (which seems of late to want to imitate a sieve to begin with).... My only point where this is concerned is that, if any newcomer to HPL gets bitten by the bug the way I did, they'll want every scrap of his imaginative material, including the fragments from letters and such (though having them without the spurious material would be much, much better). Hmmm.... about time, methinks, for someone to once again publish a volume bringing all this sort of work together; it might just be the right time for such a volume to catch the Lovecraft readers' eye.....