This thread discusses the Content article: Fungi From Yuggoth

Ye dreaded Fungi. I put ye wee green head there because when I think of ye Fungi I see green -- but I suppose to be authentic to HPL I should see pink. Oh! Here's a pink fungoid smiley!

I have loved these sonnets for decades, and when I finally decided to write my own sonnet sequence, I was overtly inspir'd by Lovecraft's cycle. I love being able to listen to them when playing the wonderful cd that Fedogan & Bremer produced nameless aeons ago. It is ye Fungi that brought me to this site, & I am glad that it has.

The most thrilling episode in my life is connected to the wee paperback edition of the Fungi whut is pictur'd below. In Octobyr of 1707, my friends tool me on a three-week trip to New England and New York. It was there that I had ye moft DELICIOUS Lovecraft moments of my life. My dear chum and editor, S. T. Joshi, was in Providence at the same time that I was, doing research on Clark Ashtom Smith papers at ye John Hay Library. He took a wee group of us on an exhaustive walking tour of Lovecraftian sites, and the best moments of my life came as we stood in front of #10 Barnes Street, the house in which HPL wrote "Fungi from Yuggoth." I was carrying my copy of the paperback edition, and I wrote into it that I was standing before the very house where Lovecraft wrote this sonnet cycle, as well as "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," "The Dunwich Horror," "The Call of Cthulhu" and so many other immortal classics. I then went and touch'd ye #10 that was fasten'd onto the side of the house. It was a moment of pure Lovecraftian bliss that I shall ne'er forgot nor replicate!

I continue to come back to these wonderful sonnets. For some future book I hope to write another sonnet cycle of my own. My first, highly influenced by these poems of Lovecraft's, appeared in my book SESQUA VALLEY & OTHER HAUNTS. That first cycle was too experimental in style, and I'd like now to work on a more traditional cycle, yet one that is Lovecraftian to the core. What would be really cool, if I ever come into some money and can spend a few months in Providence, Rhode Island, would be to write a series of poems in Lovecraft's memory in the town that so enchanted him. I'm hoping that Audio Realms, the company that is recording readings of Lovecraft's fiction on cd, will also do a version of this sonnet cycle.