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class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/more-from-the-collection\/\" title=\"\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">More From the Collection<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/nav>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Case 1<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-4 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" data-id=\"721\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2025\/06\/redBox2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-721\" 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https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/2_HPL2015ill007_1md-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/2_HPL2015ill007_1md-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/2_HPL2015ill007_1md-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/3_bdr424532_01md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" data-id=\"138\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/3_bdr424532_01md.jpg\" alt=\"Letter\" class=\"wp-image-138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/3_bdr424532_01md.jpg 400w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/3_bdr424532_01md-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/3_bdr424532_01md-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/3_bdr424532_01md-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/3_bdr424532_01md-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" data-id=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/redBox.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/redBox.jpg 400w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/redBox-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/redBox-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/redBox-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/redBox-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><span style=\"color: #9a3641\">My collection is growing into a marvelous album of nightmare! *<\/span><\/em><br>\nH. P. Lovecraft to Robert Bloch, 1933 December<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this delicate pencil drawing, Robert Bloch portrays Shub-Niggurath, an \u201cOuter God\u201d or \u201cGreat Old One\u201d within Lovecraft\u2019s pantheon and a deity that appears regularly within the stories of the Cthulhu mythos. The monstrous creature is a fertility goddess whose attributes include tentacles, slime-dripping orifices, goat-like legs, and a thousand young depicted around her. Characters in the tales frequently call upon her through incantations similar to the exclamation Bloch wrote as the title of his drawing: \u201cI\u00e4! Sub-Niggurath!\u201d (\u201cThe Whisperer in Darkness,\u201d 1930).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bloch conceives Lovecraft\u2019s creation as more of a reptilian creature, illuminating both his interest in paying homage to his mentor\u2019s work and his own youthful imagination. Late in 1933, he folded the drawing to envelope size and enclosed it, along with an illustration of \u201cBlack Yaddith,\u201d a mythos species that is known to worship Shub-Niggurath, in a letter to Lovecraft. Lovecraft responded with words of praise and encouragement, informing the aspiring fictioneer that he was saving all of the artwork he received and imparting sincere analyses of the images:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYour recent bulletin proved, as usual, highly interesting\u2014and I was quite captivated by the monstrous forms of Black Yaddith and Shub-Niggurath. <strong>My collection is growing into a marvelous album of nightmare! <\/strong>I envy your ability\u2014 + fancy that your earlier training in conventional design has a good deal to do with the vividness and disturbing substantiality of your Nameless Things. Dwyer appreciates your drawings immensely, being an aspirant in the same line himself. Has he showed you any of this things? For sheer grotesque imagination you\u2019re in the lead.\u201d<br>H. P. Lovecraft to Robert Bloch, 1933 December<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Case contents:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Robert Bloch (Chicago, Illinois 1917-1994 Los Angeles, California)<\/strong><br>I\u00c4A. Shub-Niggurath Y\u2019A<br>Circa 1933<br>Pencil on paper<br>John Hay Library. Star Collection.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b5191939~S7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RARE 3-S PS3523.O82 Z98 L7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong>H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft (Providence, Rhode Island 1890-1937 Providence, Rhode Island)<\/strong><br>Letter to Robert Bloch<br>1933 December<br>Autograph letter signed (four pages on two sheets)<br>John Hay Library. Howard P. Lovecraft Collection, 1894-1971.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/riamco.org\/render.php?eadid=US-RPB-mslovecraft&amp;view=title\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MS.Lovecraft<\/a><br>First page of a four-page letter written from Providence, Rhode Island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case 1 My collection is growing into a marvelous album of nightmare! * H. P. Lovecraft to Robert Bloch, 1933 December In this delicate pencil drawing, Robert Bloch portrays Shub-Niggurath, an \u201cOuter God\u201d or \u201cGreat Old One\u201d within Lovecraft\u2019s pantheon and a deity that appears regularly within the stories of the Cthulhu mythos. 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