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This post is a supplement to "what thou seest"; it is a brief list of resources I consulted or books I enjoyed while writing that story. I've sorted these into four loose categories. Many of these materials are freely available online.

"Journey's End" and WWI

Depending on your location, it may be difficult to find a physical copy of the play. A digital copy is available on archive.org; you'll need to make a free account to view it.

R. C. Sherriff and Vernon Bartlett adapted the play into a novel. It is also available on archive.org.

The 1930 film has never had an official DVD release, but is viewable on YouTube and archive.org.

The 2018 adaptation of Journey's End is excellent, and is available on Amazon Prime, among other places.

The Parade's End tetralogy is really a romance story, but WWI is significant to the plot beginning with the second book. Ebooks are available at Faded Page, a website which collects books in the Canadian public domain.

Robert Graves's autobiography Good-bye To All That covers his experiences in WWI, among other topics.

H. G. Gilliland's book My German Prisons is a fascinating account of his time as a British prisoner in a series of German POW camps, and his escape in 1918.

Spanish influenza

John M. Barry. "How the Horrific 1918 Flu Spread Across America". Smithsonian magazine, November 2017.

Carol Byerly. Fever of War: The Influenza Epidemic in the U. S. Army during World War I, NYU Press, 2005.

Carol Byerly. "The U.S. Military and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918–1919". Public Health Reports vol. 125 Suppl 3, Suppl 3 (2010): 82-91.

Alfred Crosby. America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY: 2004 [second edition].

Gina Kolata. Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It. Touchstone, 2001.

David M. Morens, Anthony S. Fauci. "The 1918 Influenza Pandemic: Insights for the 21st Century", The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 195, Issue 7, 1 April 2007: 1018–1028.

Jeffrey Taubenberger and David M Morens. "1918 Influenza: the mother of all pandemics". Emerging Infectious Diseases vol. 12,1 (2006): 15-22.

Vikki Valentine. "Origins of the 1918 Pandemic: The Case for France". NPR.org, 20 February 2006.

Peter C. Wever and Leo van Bergen. "Death from 1918 pandemic influenza during the First World War: a perspective from personal and anecdotal evidence". Influenza and other respiratory viruses, vol. 8,5 (2014): 538-46.

H. P. Lovecraft

Donovan Loucks's hplovecraft.com, which collects a huge amount of Lovecraft-related material, including (almost) all his fiction writing.

Boyd Pearson's eldritchdark.com, a similar site devoted to Clark Ashton Smith, an associate of Lovecraft's. I referred mostly to the correspondence between Smith and Lovecraft, some excerpts of which are viewable beginning at 1922.

If you're unfamiliar with the character of Randolph Carter, here's a chronological list of the stories in which he appears. Two "honorable mentions" in which he's name-checked are marked with asterisks.

"The Statement of Randolph Carter" (1919)
"The Unnamable" (1923)
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1926 - 1927)
"The Silver Key" (1926)
*The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)
"Through the Gates of the Silver Key" (1932 - 1933) (co-written with E. Hoffman Price)
*"Out of the Aeons" (1933) (ghostwritten for Hazel Heald)

"The Statement of Randolph Carter" was inspired by a dream of Lovecraft's, which he recounted in a letter of 11 December 1919. It is viewable here.

Horror fiction

W. Scott Poole's book Wasteland covers the effects that WWI had on horror fiction. He discusses both Lovecraft and "Journey's End", and his views definitely influenced the course of this fic.

Arthur Machen's works The Three Imposters, The Great God Pan, and "The White People". Fun fact: he accidentally originated the myth of the "Angels of Mons" with his story "The Bowmen" (collected here).

The horror fiction of M. R. James. He published four collections of ghost stories. All are available through Wikilivres, among other places.