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Authors

Hazel Heald

Hazel Heald was an American writer and Lovecraft revision client whose five principal collaborations range from intimate revenge to ancient cosmic terror. They introduced important Mythos material, but their surviving record also reveals a working relationship involving drafts, criticism, typing and the difficulty of securing payment from pulp magazines.

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Literature

The Horror in the Museum

A connoisseur of strange art becomes fascinated with a London museum whose owner claims that some of its monsters are real. An overnight test of skepticism turns into an attempted sacrifice, and a later return reveals an exhibit whose details are impossible to dismiss as invention. Written by H. P. Lovecraft for Hazel Heald, The Horror in the Museum builds its reversals around the unstable boundary between model, preserved body and living creature.

9 min read · 1,711 words