 According to the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, "Weird Tales" editor Farnsworth Wright asked Lovecraft for permission to adapt it to radio.Lovecraft rejected it, writing "What the public considers 'weirdness' in drama is rather pitiful or absurd...They are all the same - flat, hackneyed, synthetic, essentially atmosphereless jumbles of conventional shrieks and mutterings, and superficial mechanical situations."