An Examination of the Cthulhu Cult and Others

By Solar Pons, published in 1931. [AWD Who] A monograph that may not have been seriously intended. At the time of "The Adventure of the Six Silver Spiders," Solar Pons said of the Necronomicon, Cultes des Ghoules, De Vermis Mysteriis, and Liber Ivonis that "All these books have a precarious existence only in the writings of certain minor authors of American origin, all apparently followers, in a remote sense, of the work of Edgar Allan Poe." [AWD Six] Thus, Pons may have regarded the Cthulhu cult also as a literary fiction. "The Adventure of the Six Silver Spiders" apparently took place in 1930, just a year prior to the publication of An Examination of the Cthulhu Cult and Others. [See Robert Pattrick's "A Chronology of Solar Pons," in August Derleth, The Reminiscences of Solar Pons, Manchester, NH: Belanger Books, 2018.]

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