| 词条 | Old Bugs |
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| name = Old Bugs | author = H.P. Lovecraft | country = United States | language = English | published_in = The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces | publisher = Arkham House | pub_date = 1959 }} "Old Bugs" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, probably written shortly before July 1919.[1] It was first published in the Arkham House book The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces (1959). Plot{{no plot|date=October 2017}}CreationThe piece was written after Lovecraft's friend Alfred Galpin's suggestion that he wanted to try alcohol before Prohibition went into effect. In response, Lovecraft, a teetotaler, wrote a tale of an old derelict known as Old Bugs, who turns out to be Galpin himself, brought low by "evil habits, dating from a first drink taken years before in woodland seclusion." At the bottom of the manuscript, Lovecraft had written, "Now will you be good?"[1] The woman whose engagement to Old Bugs is canceled due to his drinking, Eleanor Wing, was a fellow student in Galpin's high school press club.[1] ReceptionAn 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."[1]Notes1. ^1 2 3 Joshi and Schultz, p. 193. References
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