THE DEEP ONES: "The Tree" by H. P. Lovecraft

"The Tree" by H. P. Lovecraft

Discussion begins July 12, 2023.

First published in the October 1921 issue of The Tryout.


drawing by David Levine

BIBLIOGRAPHY

https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?41878

SELECTED PRINT VERSIONS

Dagon and Other Macabre Tales
The Doom That Came to Sarnath
Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre

ONLINE VERSIONS

https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/tr.aspx

ONLINE AUDIO VERSIONS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF_m9XcFZdo

MISCELLANY

https://www.tor.com/2015/09/22/the-bert-and-ernie-of-the-mythos-the-tree/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26868529
https://www.deviantart.com/dermura/journal/Lovecraft-and-Greek-Tragedy-897069782
https://www.hplovecraft.com/
https://tinyurl.com/4td45wpy

Another "un-Lovecraftian" Lovecraft here - no elder tomes or unnameable gods, only a Classical Greek setting and a simple tale of posthumous vengeance.

Mt Maenalus is a real place, the tallest mountain in Arcadia. No "sylvan dread" here, though, despite the talk of Pan in the opening.

Kalos' name means "beautiful" and Musides' "son of a/the Muse(s)".