Connections
- Several members of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos are mentioned in this story, including Shub-Niggurath and Yig.
- The first curator of the Cabot Museum was named "Pickman", sharing a name with the titular character of Lovecraft's "Pickman's Model".
- One of the visitors to the museum is a strange man who calls himself "Swami Chandraputra." This is actually Randolph Carter, who, as described in "Through the Gates of the Silver Key," uses that alias after his mind is trapped in an alien body.
- The story helped inspire the Xothic legend cycle of Lin Carter.
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