H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth were friends who never met, and they were also literary contemporaries.
X reads Lovecraft, who wrote of horrors from the abyss, while at Derleth Park, where Derleth himself trekked the banks and wrote of the river. And, of horrors from the abyss.
An aside: August Derleth is often referred to as the person who wrote about the Wisconsin River more than any other writer in history ... a feat I have been determined to top.
