![]() ![]() Cobb (particularly "Fishhead" and "The Unbroken Chain"). Chambers (particularly The King in Yellow, but also the original short version of "The Harbor-Master" - later revised and incorporated into In Search of the Unknown - and Maker of Moons) Irvin S. Gorman ( The Place Called Dagon) Arthur Ransome ( The Elixir of Life) Robert W. ![]() ![]() There were many, many others, of course, including: Edgar Rice Burroughs (it has been argued), Abe Merritt (most notably the original short story "The Moon Pool" - not the novel of that title) Nathaniel Hawthorne, who taught him much about how to construct a "haunted history" of his beloved New England Hanns Heinz Ewers (most notably the short story, "The Spider") Mary Shelley Guy de Maupassant (most notably "The Horla") Herbert S. Joshi's volume, The Weird Tale (University of Texas, 1990), and included Dunsany, Machen, Blackwood, Bierce, and M. Those who influenced him most directly where the weird tale is concerned were (save for Poe) covered in S. ![]()
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