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Publication History
 
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Weird Tales, 34, No. 4 (October 1939), 50–68.
The Tomb and Other Tales. New York: Ballantine Books, 1970, 104–34.
The Doom That Came to Sarnath. New York: Ballantine Books, 1971, 142–74.
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales. Ed. S.T. Joshi. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1987, 292–321.
The Transition of H.P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness. New York: Ballantine Books, 1996, 349–75.
The Weird Writings of HP Lovecraft. Mississauga, ON: Girasol Collectables, 2010, 2: 405–23.
Medusa’s Coil and Others: The Annotated Revisions and Collaborations of H.P. Lovecraft, Volume 2. Welches, OR: Arcane Wisdom, 2012, 347–384.
 
In the Walls of Eryx
 
By H. P. Lovecraft With Kenneth Sterling
 
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Before I try to rest I will set down these notes in preparation for the report I must make. What I have found is so singular, and so contrary to all past experience and expectations, that it deserves a very careful description.
I reached the main landing on Venus March 18, terrestrial time; VI, 9 of the planet’s calendar. Being put in the main group under Miller, I received my equipment—watch tuned to Venus’s slightly quicker rotation—and went through the usual mask drill. After two days I was pronounced fit for duty.
Leaving the Crystal Company’s post at Terra Nova around dawn, VI, 12, I followed the southerly route which Anderson had mapped out from the air. The going was bad, for these jungles are always half impassable after a rain. It must be the moisture that gives the tangled vines and creepers that leathery toughness; a toughness so great that a knife has to work ten minutes on some of them. By noon it was dryer—the vegetation getting soft and rubbery so that the knife went through it easily—but even then I could not make much speed. These Carter oxygen masks are too heavy—just carrying one half wears an ordinary man out. A Dubois mask with sponge-reservoir instead of tubes would give just as good air at half the weight.
The crystal-detector seemed to function well, pointing steadily in a direction verifying Anderson’s report. It is curious how that principle of affinity works—without any of the fakery of the old ‘divining rods’ back home. There must be a great deposit of crystals within a thousand miles, though I suppose those damnable man-lizards always watch and guard it. Possibly they think we are just as foolish for coming to Venus to hunt the ............

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