H P. Lovecraft: "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family," "The Festival," "He," and "The Horror at Red Hook"

Here at MPorcius Fiction Log we are reading stories from 1920s issues of Weird Tales, the widely beloved pioneering speculative fiction magazine. Today we are going to tackle four WT stories from the era by an author closely associated with WT, H. P. Lovecraft, stories I haven't blogged about yet, though I may have read some of them in the distant past. I will be reading them from my Arkham House hardcover Dagon and Other Macabre Tales (Corrected Ninth Edition), but I'll include links to the stories' 1920s Weird Tales appearances: just click the magic words below to be whisked off to the hellish landscapes which lie just beneath the surface of our own mundane reality:Ph'nglui mglw'nafhCthulhu R'lyehwgah'naglfhtagn"Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family" (1921)This tale debuted in a publication called The Wolverine, and appeared in Weird Tales three years later under the title "The White Ape," a title of which HPL did not approve.This story, a history of a now extinct…