17) There are two entries in Lovecraft's commonplace book that give plot-germs specifically involving Black characters: 108: “Educated mulatto seeks to displace personality of white man & occupy his body” 109: “Ancient negro voodoo wizard in cabin in swamp—possesses white man.”

18) Lovecraft once convinced a friend to name a white kitten he had found "Crom," after Robert E. Howard's Cimmerian deity from the frozen north.