Lovecraft’s ghost typed out a horror-themed haiku on ectoplasmic paper:

The giant creature
had an octopus head and
long, very sharp teeth!

The ghost sent the haiku off to an editor for consideration, and envisioned that it would be published. The subsequent rejection letter was crushing: “Sorry; it’s too tropey.”

After years spent battling monsters and solving mysteries, Reed Beebe has retired to a quiet village to write fiction. Reed’s work has been published by AHOY Comics, Heavy Metal, and Soteira Press. Reed blogs about comics at medium.com/meanwhile.