The Compleat Crow
“Not that I grieved to any great extent over Mr. Davies’ adverse comments—you can never please everyone—but I definitely disagreed with his expounded argument. He had had it that Mythological-Fantasy was ‘out;’ that the Cthulhu Mythos’ fabled lands and creatures and Cimmeria’s scintillating citadels and dark demons should have been allowed to die a sad but certain death along with their respective originators, and that constant culling from those tales—the brain children of my own, not to mentio...n many another author’s, literary progenitors—was weakening the impact of the original works. Nor, apparently, had my story—admittedly a Lovecraftian piece; set during the time of Rome’s rule over England and involving the worship of an “outside God”—irritated him in this respect alone. What seemed to have annoyed Mr. Davies especially was the fact that I had portrayed “so thoroughly unbelievable a God” as existing in such a well-known period of England’s history that even an average student of our country’s antiquities could hardly miss the obvious impossibility of my tale.MoreLess
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