A book about Gef, the "talking mongoose" who allegedly haunted a bleak farmhouse on the Isle of Man has recently been published. I've just started reading it and it's a richly detailed, well-illustrated survey of the whole intriguing story.
Gef! The Strange Tale of an Extra-Special Talking Mongoose | Strange Attractor
It also mentions a theory that I first encountered in an article by Will Murray in Issue 17 of Dagon magazine. Because the Gef story became international news in 1931-2 when Lovecraft was writing The Dreams in the Witch House it was suggested that the creature, with its human hands and ability to speak several languages, may have inspired the creation of Brown Jenkin. Of course, in the absence of any known reference to the case in HPL's surviving correspondence, this can only be conjecture. Still, the Gef saga is fascinating in its own right.
06-10-2017
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