The Thing in the Woods

The Thing in the Woods is a children’s horror novel by British-American author Margery Williams. It was first published in the United Kingdom by Gerald Duckworth & Co. in 1913; its American release by Robert M. McBride & Company credited the author to the pseudonym Harper Williams The Thing in the Woods at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. It was also included in the Robert M. Price-edited anthology Tales Out of Dunwich (Hippocampus Press, 2005).
==Synopsis==
The story involves a case of lycanthropy in rural Pennsylvania, a place Williams lived from ages 9 to 19.
==Behind the Mythos==
The Thing in the Woods has been speculated by some to be a possible inspiration for H. P. Lovecraft's 1929 short story "The Dunwich Horror" Margery Williams at Wikipedia; Lovecraft wrote a poem in November 1924 titled "On The Thing in the Woods by Harper Williams", a fact which may support this hypothesis.
==References==
Category:Margery Williams works
Category:Lovecraft's Inspirations (works)