An HPL original micro-fiction (Patreon)

Happy Patron's Day!

As a thank you for your support, I wanted to share a delightful find from my research. This is an excerpt from a letter from Nov. 18th, 1930 to Clark Ashton Smith:

“Oh, yes ---Abdul mentioned your ghoul, & told of other adventures of his. But some timid reader has torn out the pages where the Episode of the Vault under the Mosque comes to a climax --- the deletion being curiously uniform in the copies at Harvard & at Miskatonic University. When I wrote to the University of Paris for information about the missing text, a polite sub-librarian, M. Leon de Vercheres, wrote me that he would make me a photostatic copy as soon as he could comply with the formalities attendant upon access to the dreaded volume. Unfortunately it was not long afterward that I learned of M. de Vercheres’ sudden insanity & incarceration, & of his attempt to burn the hideous book which he had just secured & consulted. Thereafter my requests met with scant notice --- & I have not yet looked up any of the other few surviving copies of the Necronomicon.” 

I am actively researching the letter Smith had sent to HPL as I want to know more about this ghoul!