[PW] Re: ? story ID

Daphne Drewello drewello at daktel.com
Fri Oct 13 15:08:43 PDT 2006


Alice Falk wrote


> In "What Can a Heroine Do? or Why Women Can't Write," Joanna Russ 
> refers to "potting a twelve-foot-tall batrachian with a kerosene 
> lamp" and later explains that her example "is from a short story by 
> H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth." But which short story? Does this 
> description rings a bell with anyone?
> 

"The Shuttered Room" by August Derleth.  You can read it here:

http://tinyurl.com/yjzsm8


Daphne Drewello
Alfred Dickey Library
Jamestown, ND



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