(urth) Innocents Aboard

[Tony Ellis]

Antonin Scriabin wrote (re: The Friendship Light)

> As for the story itself, is there a type of demon / vampire from any
> mythology that spurns the heads of its victims?

The 'friends' are HP Lovecraft's Fungi from Yuggoth, who steal human
brains. You can read about them in The Whisperer in Darkness.

The fact that they're attracted by a lamp is a Wolfean pun on the fact
that the Fungi are described as moth-like.