Comic book version of Beyond the Wall of Sleep (mycomicshop.com)
In this last article on H.P. Lovecraft’s “Beyond the Wall of Sleep” the astronomical references in the story are explored. As S.T. Joshi notes in H.P. Lovecraft:The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Classics 2001), HPL came across two articles that stimulated his imagination to write Beyond the Wall of Sleep. The first was an article in the New York Tribune, which mentions some inhabitants of the Catskill Mountains and refers to a family named the Slaters or Slahters. The second is an article written by Garrett Putnam Serviss (1851 – 1929) who wrote articles about astronomy, science in general and early science fiction stories.
Garrett P. Serviss, journalist, astronomer, author of early works of science fiction (from Wikipedia.org)
As Joshi cites (2001) HPL was a fan of Serviss’s work and in his book Astronomy with…
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