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Library of Lovecraft Mythos in Miskatonic University

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H.P. Lovecraft Wikipedia

Lovecraft Mythos. Forbidden Knowledge.

Tagged: Ghostwriting

Publishing & reference

Collaboration and ghostwriting

Lovecraft’s collaborative corpus contains several different kinds of literary work: revision of another writer’s draft, extensive rewriting, fiction composed for another person’s byline, shared storytelling and later constructions from surviving material. Understanding those differences changes how a story should be credited and what it can establish about the development of the Mythos.

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Authors

Harry Houdini

Harry Houdini (1874–1926) was a magician and escape artist whose connection with Lovecraft involved commissioned writing rather than membership in a fictional occult order. Lovecraft wrote Under the Pyramids for publication under Houdini’s name. Houdini also engaged C. M. Eddy, Jr., with assistance from Lovecraft, on writing about superstition.

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Explorers approach an immense alien city among ice and dark peaks.
Literature

Under the Pyramids

Under the Pyramids is Lovecraft’s fictional Egyptian adventure written for Harry Houdini. A tourist visit becomes an abduction, an escape from bonds deep underground and a glimpse of a ceremony whose final revelation radically changes the scale of the horror. The narrator uses Houdini’s public identity and professional skills, while repeatedly trying to explain his extraordinary perceptions as dreams.

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