Posthumous Collaboration

Overview

Filed under register ME-1928-T24/8155; cite `posthumous-collaboration` in all outbound correspondence.

We would delete Posthumous Collaboration if deletion worked; instead we classify, cross-link, and warn.

Stories published under Lovecraft's name after 1937 with heavy revision.

Period attestation: derleth-era.

If the name appears in dreams three nights running, withdraw from the case and request audit.

Description

Derleth and others edited fragments into 'completed' tales.

Sensory reports conflict in detail — scale, colour, limb count — yet agree that the phenomenon offends proportion.

Olfactory notes in depositions: salt, copper, wet stone, and organic sweetness like fruit fermenting in a closed room.

Historical Record

Scholarship must compare manuscripts when possible.

Post-1937 pastiche and game supplements multiplied references; the archive tags those layers expanded mythos unless a primary citation is supplied.

Cross-links at dossier foot should be treated as hypotheses, not as family trees carved in stone.

Field Observations

Do not engage alone; do not accept hospitality from hosts who show windows to other eras.

Submit Form Theta-9 if conversation turns to cities remembered only in sleep.

The Library holds primary text; this dossier holds orientation — never the reverse.

Archive Notes

Cite archive slug `posthumous-collaboration` in all cross-references. The Library holds primary text; this dossier holds orientation — never the reverse.