On The Thing in the Woods by Harper Williams

"On The Thing in the Woods by Harper Collins" is a poem by the late American author H. P. Lovecraft. Although dated 29 November 1924, it remained unpublished until decades after his death, when it made its first appearance in the 2001 Night Shade Books anthology The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft "On The Thing in the Woods by Harper Collins" at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
==Overview==
The poem is a commentary on the 1913 children’s novel The Thing in the Woods, a story concerning lycanthropy in rural Pennsylvania, by Margery Williams; when published in America, the book had been issued under the pseudonym Harper Collins. It has been speculated to have been an influence on Lovecraft's 1929 short story "The Dunwich Horror" Margery Collins at Wikipedia, which may be supported by his writing of this piece.
==References==
Category:H. P. Lovecraft works
Category:Lovecraft Circle Works