[PW] Re: ? story ID

[Dennis Lien]

At 05:08 PM 10/13/2006, you wrote:
>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


Just in case anyone is wondering, the story is indeed about 99% Derleth,
though published as a collaboration with HPL.  (Derleth published a lot
of HPL "collaborations" based on a line or two of notes or story ideas
Lovecraft had left behind.)

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu