An Item of Supporting Evidence

"An Item of Supporting Evidence" is a Cthulhu Mythos story by Brian Lumley, featuring the occult investigator Titus Crow. It first appeared in the Summer 1970 issue of The Arkham Collector (#7).
==Synopsis==
Titus Crow is taken to task by weird artist Chandler Davies for writing a piece of Lovecraftian fiction that blatantly contradicts known history. Crow defends himself by producing an object that proves that his fiction is grounded in fact.
==Characters==
Titus Crow: He appears in this story as a writer of weird fiction, though he maintains that all my stories have at least a tenuous basis in established fact, some more definitely than others, and that I have never chronicled anything which I believe could not possibly have happened or which has not, in some way or other, directly involved myself.His most recent piece, a short story called "Yegg-ha's Realm," which appeared in the magazine Grotesque, was based on an incident recorded in the Lollius Urbicus' Frontier Garrison, written c. 138 AD--and verified by Crow's own archaeological investigations.
Crow lives in Blowne House, which is surrounded by a "curious aura of foreboding."
Chandler Davies: A "weird-artist" who maintains that "Mythological-Fantasy was ‘out,’" that the Cthulhu Mythos and the Hyborian Age "should have been allowed to die a sad but certain death along with their respective originators," and that writers who follow in such literary footsteps were "weakening the impact of the original works."
==Mythos Connections==
Davies is impressed by Crow's library, which includes of "an original copy of Geoffrey’s People of the Monolith," as well as "Feery’s Original Notes on the Necronomicon, the abhorrent Cthaat Aquadingen, [and] a literally priceless Cultes des Goules."
==Publication History==
After its initial appearance in The Arkham Collector, "An Item of Supporting Evidence" was reprinted in Lumley's collections The Caller of The Black (Arkham House, 1971) and The Compleat Crow (W. Paul Ganley, 1987).
Category:Brian Lumley works
Category:Expanded Mythos Works