Old Bugs
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This article uses material from the Old Bugs article on the Lovecraft wiki at Fandom and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License.

Overview

"Old Bugs" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, probably written shortly before July 1919. It was first published in the Arkham House book The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces (1959).

Reaction

An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia says of the piece, "It is not nearly as ponderous as it sounds, and is in fact a little masterpiece of comic deflation and self-parody."