Many authors cited each other works in their stories, this helped the mythos growing in the first place. Also, no work is born from nothing, read some stories of William Hope Hodgson or Algernon Blackwood. Lovecraft describe both as great inspiration and among his favourite authors
Im just being a little shit about how people think Lovecraft wrote TKiY but FWIW that story predates Lovecraft’s first writings by a couple decades
Many authors cited each other works in their stories, this helped the mythos growing in the first place. Also, no work is born from nothing, read some stories of William Hope Hodgson or Algernon Blackwood. Lovecraft describe both as great inspiration and among his favourite authors
Two other great influental authors. Especially “The Willows” of A.Blackwood and “The House on the Borderland” of W.H.Hodgson