On 1st January 2021 the copyright time-pinger ‘dinged’ and thus enabled hplovecraft.com to restore the text of “Deaf, Dumb, and Blind” by C. M. Eddy, Jr. and H. P. Lovecraft. The short tale is now presumably also available for YouTube audio recordings and adaptation into comics, animation etc.

Originally published in Weird Tales for April 1925, and there credited to Eddy.

Joshi’s considered option in I Am Providence was that Eddy likely wrote the first draft of the tale, and Lovecraft then revised this “around February 1924, just prior to his move to New York”. Then advised further on finessing the ending, in what Eddy later referred to as “several conferences” — an ambiguous phrase which I would suggest might even encompass telephone calls from New York.