The Inhabitant of the Lake: And Other Unwelcome Tenants

Ramsey Campbell

The influence of H. P. Lovecraft spans the centuries. Several of his correspondents who were writers learned by imitating him. The early tales of Robert Bloch and Henry Kuttner read very much like Lovecraft, while others of his friends―Donald Wandrei, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard and August Derleth among them―incorporated his ideas and myths into their fiction. Bloch and Frank Belknap Long…