"hellish" book found with other forbidden texts in the Starry Wisdom Church in Providence, Rhode Island. In "The Diary of Alonzo Typer", ghostwritten by Lovecraft for William Lumley, it is likewise part of an occult library in the van der Heyl house near Attica, New York. And in Lovecraft's "The Shadow Out of Time", the possessed protagonist Wingate Peaslee reads (and makes marginal notes in) a copy of the book possessed by the Miskatonic University library. In a 1936 letter to fellow Mythos writer Henry Kuttner, Lovecraft mentioned De Vermis Mysteriis as one of the books that "repeat the most hellish secrets learnt by early man". See also Cthulhu Mythos arcane literature "Jerusalem's Lot", a short story by Stephen King that features the book Chapelwaite, a television series based on King's short story Revival, a 2014 novel by Stephen King that mentions the book Notes References Robert Bloch, Mysteries of the Worm, Robert M. Price, ed. Robert M. Price, "Reconstructing De Vermis Mysteriis", in The Horror of It All: Encrusted Gems from the "Crypt of Cthulhu", Robert M. Price, ed. Fictional books within the Cthulhu Mythos Works by Robert Bloch Fictional elements introduced in 1935