Absolutely. After reading about the Slender Man and the Black Eyed Kids I was afraid that he's just trying to hop on some pop culture wagon, but he's really learned about mythology and has done his research and thought it all through.
Lots of interesting details. I didn't know about H.G. Wells's selenites, for example or that Robert E. Howard said that he was having conversations with his characters.
That latter one has always been fascinating to me. Maybe REH was just joking when he said that, but he seems to have been at least as strange and interesting a character as his pen-friend HPL, so who knows. And there are one or two stories, where he at least hinted at reincarnation (if I remember correctly, one of his lesser known, more modern pulp heroes was supposed to be a reincarnation of Bran Mak Morn, the character Mr Weatherly mentioned). Which if I'm not mistaken, should not have been a very common or popular topic in the 1930s.
Philip, the "invented ghost" who seems to have caused some real unexplained phenomena in an experiment in the 70s, would have been worth mentioning here, although he didn't appear "physically" but "only" did some table rapping, levitation and moving, etc .
Fascinating stuff. But I still doubt that the Black Eyed Kids and the Slender Man might have gone tulpa on us. At least, I really, really hope so.... (play Twilight Zone theme here).
Thanks for asking my questions.
