![]() ![]() The exhibit “The Shadow over College Street: H.P. As Lovecraft’s narrator was a scientist, the description of the Things in the novella is dense and layered here we can see the beginnings of that detail. The sketch on the right side of this page of notes, with its annotations (“body dark grey” “all appendages not in use customarily folded down to body” “leathery or rubbery”) represents Lovecraft working out the specifics of an Elder Thing’s anatomy. “Mountains” featured several species of forgotten, intelligent beings, including the “Elder Things.” These star-headed, sapient creatures, not quite plant and not quite animal, were first introduced in this novella. In Lovecraft’s mythology, ancient beings of profound malevolence lurk just below the surface of the everyday world. ![]()
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