What was the birthplace of the man upon whose letter the short story "The Thing in the Moonlight" is based?
The Thing in the Moonlight "The Thing in the Moonlight" is a short story by J. Chapman Miske, based on a letter from H. P. Lovecraft to Donald Wandrei, dated November 24, 1927. This letter describes a dream that Lovecraft had. The story was prepared for publication by Miske, who filled in the story surrounding the description of the dream. In places, the letter and published story are identical, word-for-word. It was first published in "Bizarre" magazine in January 1941.
The Gentleman from San Francisco The Gentleman from San Francisco (Господин из Сан-Франциско, "Gospodin iz San Frantsisco") is a short story by a Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin, written in 1915 and published the same year in Moscow, in the 5th volume of "Slovo" (Word) anthology. Translated into English by D.H.Lawrence (with Samuil Koteliansky), the story is one of Bunin's best known and regarded as classic.