These devices—including a wide array of extraterrestrials (deemed “gods” by their human followers); an entire library of mythical books containing the “forbidden” truths about these “gods”; and a fictionalized New England landscape analogous to Hardy’s Wessex or Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County—are certainly found abundantly in Lovecraft’s later tales and lend them a kind of thematic unity not found in other work of their kind.
