Innsmouth

Which is where Bunn and Shepherd's new story begins, with him traveling to the infamous town of Innsmouth, the center point of much of the wider Lovecraft tapestry.

Save the girl, solve the case, survive Innsmouth!

For his part, Lovecraft began to include Howardian action sequences in his own work, for example in " The Shadow Over Innsmouth ".

In fact, this very story, along with some hints from 'The Shadow over Innsmouth', provides the key to the origin of the 'Derleth Mythos'.

Sometimes, as with The Shadow Over Innsmouth (which included a rousing chase that supplied action) he wrote a story that might have been commercially viable, but did not try to sell it.