HPL of course. While “Dylath-Leen” would later go into my Titus Crow/De Marigny Mythos novel The Clock of Dreams as a chapter in its own right, at the time of writing it was my first attempt at this sort of story. As such it was mainly unconnected to later Dreamlands stories that would feature David Hero (called “Hero of Dreams”) and his fellow adventurer Eldin (“the Wanderer”), which wouldn’t be written until the late 1970s–early ’80s. Anyway, after reading the story in my Arkham collection The Caller of The Black, L. Sprague de Camp particularly liked it and wrote to ask if he might include it in a fantasy collection he was planning. Well, that never happened, but in any case it was nice to know that this fine author had enjoyed it. And it’s my hope that you will too.“If aught of evil ever befalls the people of Dylath-Leen, through their traffick with certain traders of ill repute, then it will not be my fault.” —Randolph CarterIThree times only have I visited the basalt-towered, myriad-wharved city of Dylath-Leen; three curious visits which spanned I fancy almost a century of that city’s existence.
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