Yes, and Brown Jenkin's definitely going to be there -- in fact, his whole species will be.
May I engage in a little evolutionary geekery here? The first time in my adult life I read "The Dreams in the Witch House" -- I'd read it back in my insufficiently misspent youth, but that's another matter -- my instant response to Brown Jenkin was that he belongs to a previously undocumented species of primate. You've got the flat, human-looking face, you've got the four paws like little hands, right? He's got to be a primate. So in The Weird of Hali, there's a species of New World prosimian -- distant relatives of the loris, the lemur, and the tarsier -- that plays a modest but significant role. They were originally native to the jungles of southern Atlantis, you see, were domesticated in Poseidonian times, and bred to have certain curious resonances with human nervous systems. If you can find a copy of De Rebus Praeternaturalibus by Johannes Aldrovandus, which of course you won't be able to do in this regrettably nonfictive world, you can read at length in the chapter De Familiaribus Maleficarum about their care and feeding...
As for the Mi-Go, definitely! A Lovecraftian universe lacking the fungi from Yuggoth would be insufficiently squamous and rugose indeed. ;-)
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Date: 2019-02-28 02:16 am (UTC)May I engage in a little evolutionary geekery here? The first time in my adult life I read "The Dreams in the Witch House" -- I'd read it back in my insufficiently misspent youth, but that's another matter -- my instant response to Brown Jenkin was that he belongs to a previously undocumented species of primate. You've got the flat, human-looking face, you've got the four paws like little hands, right? He's got to be a primate. So in The Weird of Hali, there's a species of New World prosimian -- distant relatives of the loris, the lemur, and the tarsier -- that plays a modest but significant role. They were originally native to the jungles of southern Atlantis, you see, were domesticated in Poseidonian times, and bred to have certain curious resonances with human nervous systems. If you can find a copy of De Rebus Praeternaturalibus by Johannes Aldrovandus, which of course you won't be able to do in this regrettably nonfictive world, you can read at length in the chapter De Familiaribus Maleficarum about their care and feeding...
As for the Mi-Go, definitely! A Lovecraftian universe lacking the fungi from Yuggoth would be insufficiently squamous and rugose indeed. ;-)