The Curse of Yig (1928)

El rasgo principal de Yig consistía en un amor desmesurado por sus criaturas: un amor tan grande que los pieles rojas casi temían protegerse de las venenosas serpientes de cascabel que poblaban la región. Cuentos susurrados con temor hablaban de su venganza contra los mortales que lo despreciaban o causaban daño a su progenie.

this story is about 75% mine. All I had to work on was a synopsis describing a couple of pioneers in a cabin with a nest of rattlesnakes beneath, the killing of the husband by snakes, the bursting of the corpse, & the madness of the wife, who was an eye-witness to the horror. There was no plot or motivation-no prologue or aftermath to the incident-so that one might say the story, as a story, is wholly my own. I invented the snake-god & the curse, the tragic wielding of the axe by the wife, the matter of the snake-victim's identity, & the asylum epilogue. Also, I worked up the geographic & other incidental colour-getting some data from the alleged authoress, who knows Oklahoma, but more from books.

—Carta de HPL a August Derleth (6 de octubre de 1929).