The title of the story may have been influenced by Ambrose Bierce's "Beyond the Wall" Lovecraft was known to be reading Bierce in 1919. Serviss's Astronomy with the Naked Eye (1908). The nova mentioned at the end of Lovecraft's story is a real star, known as GK Persei the quotation is from Garrett P. Reporting on the New York state police, the article cited a family named Slater or Slahter as representative of the backwards Catskills population. Lovecraft said the story was inspired by an Aparticle in the New York Tribune. It would eventually be rereleased in Weird Tales in March of 1938. Lovecraft written in 1919 and first published in the amateur publication of Pine Cones in October 1919. " Beyond the Wall of Sleep" is a short story by American writer H.
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