The Moon-Bog

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"The Moon-Bog"
Author	H. P. Lovecraft
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Horror short story
Published in	Weird Tales
Media type	Print (Magazine)
Publication date	June, 1926

"The Moon Bog" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in or before March 1921 and first published in the June 1926 issue of Weird Tales.

The story was written for a gathering of amateur journalists in Boston on March 10, 1921, that had a St. Patrick's Day theme.^[1]

The unnamed narrator describes the final fate of his good friend, Denys Barry, an Irish-American who reclaims an ancestral estate in Kilderry, a fictional town in Ireland. Barry ignores pleas from the local peasantry not to drain the nearby bog, with unfortunate supernatural consequences. The story bears a similarity to Lord Dunsany's first Irish novel The Curse of the Wise Woman in theme, showing the influence of Dunsany on Lovecraft's works.^[2]

Like Barry, Lovecraft had dreams of buying back his ancestors' home in England.^[3] This same theme is treated with greater depth in Lovecraft's "The Rats in the Walls" (1923).

"The Moon-Bog" is described by S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz as "one of the most conventionally supernatural in HPL's oeuvre."^[4]

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↑ S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz, "Moon-Bog, The", An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia, p. 171.
↑ S. T. Joshi, Explanatory notes; "The Moon-Bog", The Dreams in the Witch House And Other Weird Stories, p. 409. ISBN 0-14-243795-6.
↑ S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz, "Barry, Denys", An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia, p. 17.
↑ Joshi and Schultz, "Moon-Bog, The", p. 171.

v t e Works of H. P. Lovecraft

Cthulhu Mythos Dream Cycle

Novellas	The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath The Case of Charles Dexter Ward At the Mountains of Madness The Shadow Over Innsmouth The Shadow Out of Time

Short stories	"The Tomb" "Dagon" "A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson" "Polaris" "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" "Memory" "Old Bugs" "The Transition of Juan Romero" "The White Ship" "The Street" "The Doom that Came to Sarnath" "The Statement of Randolph Carter" "The Terrible Old Man" "The Tree" "The Cats of Ulthar" "The Temple" "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family" "Celephaïs" "From Beyond" "Nyarlathotep" "The Picture in the House" "Ex Oblivione" "Sweet Ermengarde" "The Nameless City" "The Quest of Iranon" "The Moon-Bog" "The Outsider" "The Other Gods" "The Music of Erich Zann" "Herbert West–Reanimator" "Hypnos" "What the Moon Brings" "Azathoth "The Hound" "The Lurking Fear" "The Rats in the Walls" "The Unnamable" "The Festival" "The Shunned House" "The Horror at Red Hook" "He" "In the Vault" "Cool Air" "The Call of Cthulhu" "Pickman's Model" "The Silver Key" "The Strange High House in the Mist" "The Colour Out of Space" "The Descendant" "History of the Necronomicon" "The Very Old Folk" "Ibid" "The Dunwich Horror" "The Whisperer in Darkness" "The Dreams in the Witch House" "The Thing on the Doorstep" "The Evil Clergyman" "The Book" "The Haunter of the Dark"

Collaborations	"The Green Meadow" "Poetry and the Gods" "The Crawling Chaos" "The Horror at Martin's Beach" "Under the Pyramids" "Two Black Bottles" "The Last Test" "The Curse of Yig" "The Electric Executioner" "The Mound" "Medusa's Coil" "The Trap" "The Man of Stone" "The Horror in the Museum" "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" "Winged Death" "Out of the Aeons" "The Horror in the Burying-Ground" "The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast" "The Slaying of the Monster" "The Tree on the Hill" "The Battle that Ended the Century" "Till A’the Seas" "Collapsing Cosmoses" "The Challenge from Beyond" "The Disinterment" "The Diary of Alonzo Typer" "In the Walls of Eryx" "The Night Ocean"

Juvenilia	"The Little Glass Bottle" "The Secret Cave" "The Mystery of the Grave-Yard" "The Mysterious Ship" "The Beast in the Cave" "The Alchemist"

See also "Fungi from Yuggoth" (poem) "Supernatural Horror in Literature" (essay) "The Thing in the Moonlight" (short story)

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