I read the second issue of Weird Tales without anything jumping out at me as worth talking about, and had gotten through a good chunk of issue three... was I in the wrong state of mind? Or was I being too stringent?
Then, this story jumped out at me and I decided to do a reading. Only later, when I started looking into this story, did I learn two things:
1) Lovecraft liked this story enough to mention it in a letter,
and 2) It seems as though nobody knows who M. Humphreys was.
My confidence was somewhat assuaged when I discovered the story I "picked" was something Lovecraft thought worth mentioning to a friend.
So, I hope you enjoy my reading of "The Floor Above." It's a great little horror story with excellent tension and enough subtlety to hint without giving the whole game away.
You can also read it here (archive):
https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV01n03192305/page/n51/mode/2up
or here (wikisource)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weird_Tales/Volume_1/Issue_3/The_Floor_Above
If you like this kind of creepy journal story, you might enjoy my alternate-history look at part of the race to the moon, "The PAEAN Project"
https://rnkfiction.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-paean-project-about-3100-words.html
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