of Laban Shrewsbury who first appears in "The Watcher from the Sky", and also appears in "The Black Island". He was a Boston divinity student from New Hampshire who mysteriously disappeared after becoming involved with Andrew Phelan, a former tenant of his residence. At the end of "The Black Island", the final story in the sequence, he is murdered by Deep Ones. Clairborne Boyd Appears in "The Gorge Beyond Salapunco”. Nayland Colum In “The Keeper of the Key”, Colum is a London writer who vanishes from a ship bringing him home from Arabia. His best-known work is the novel The Watchers from the Other Side, to which he was planning a sequel at the time of his disappearance. Japhet Smith In “The Gorge Beyond Salapunco”, Smith is an agent of the Cthulhu cult who pursued Clairborne Boyd to Lima, Peru. References Sources 1962 short story collections Cthulhu Mythos anthologies Fantasy short story collections Horror short story collections Works originally published in Weird Tales Arkham House books