The Book of Iod by Henry Kuttner & Lin Carter & Robert M Price

Author:Henry Kuttner & Lin Carter & Robert M Price [Kuttner, Henry & Carter, Lin & Price, Robert M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781568820453
Amazon: 1568820453
Publisher: Chaosium, Inc.
Published: 1995-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Kuttner had been at work on this tale long before it finally appeared. Fully three years earlier Lovecraft wrote him,

Your mention of “The Frog” interests me greatly, for it looks like one of my favorite sort of tales. If {Weird Tales editor Farnsworth} Wright rejects it, I trust you’ll let me see the MS’.—for I don’t want to miss the kind of item this appears to be! The atmosphere ofdream-pursuit is surely ideal for anything of this nature. (May 18, 1936)

Wright must have spumed it, as HPL apparently anticipated, and it was three years before it would appear in the pages o/Weird Tales’ rival counterpart. Perhaps Wright thought it a bit too similar to “The Salem Horror”; if so, he was right.

Note that here Kuttner introduces his own eerie locale, Monk’s Hollow, a name evocative of isolated nocturnal rites practiced by renegade diabolist monks such as we associate with Lovecraft’s Exham Priory and with the brotherhood in Bloch’s “The Feast in the Abbey.”

First publication: Strange Stories, February 1939.

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