![]() ![]() In effect, what Wellman was doing was saying that the Judge and de Grandin existed in the same WT universe: He mentions another Weird Tales alumnist's creation, that of Seabury Quinn's Jules de Grandin, without doubt the most popular character in WT's original run. But in this tale, Wellman borrows a page from Lovecraft's literary game. This tale was the last for the Judge for several decades because Wellman would create a new ghostbreaker of even greater popularity in John Thunstone. "The Half-Haunted" (writing as Gans T Field), a Judge Keith Hillary Pursuivant ghostbreaker tale, appeared in Weird Tales in September 1941. I suspect Manly Wade Wellman tried a little of this magic too. ![]() Later, August Derleth would take what was largely a game for HPL and tie it into a commercial package that featured monsters, weird books, and a shared world of dreams and terror. Not everyone at Weird Tales was included just the closest correspondents of Lovecraft’s. This was the beginning of the Cthulhu Mythos. Lovecraft's circle shared mention of their separate creations in the pages of Weird Tales, name-dropping here and there a friend's character or some other reference. ![]()
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