The building that is the story’s main setting is based on a townhouse at 317 West 14th Street where George Kirk,one of Lovecraft’s few New York friends, lived briefly in 1925.The narrator’s heart attack recalls that of another New York Lovecraft friend, Frank Belknap Long, who dropped out of New York University because of his heart condition The narrator’s phobia about cool air is reminiscent of Lovecraft himself, who was abnormally sensitive to cold.

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