New on LibriVox, a free reading of the short survey Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods: With a Few Desert and Mountain Beasts (1910)…

A limbless reptilian monster that propels itself through the swamps with a propeller-tipped tail? A creature so ashamed of its monstrous appearance that it dissolves into tears when captured? Learn about the Snoligoster, the Squonk and many other ‘fearsome critters’ in this field guide written and illustrated by two North American foresters who know them well. Listeners who suspect that these creatures are the stuff of tall tales, will nevertheless do well to look out for Slide-rock Bolters when vacationing in the Colorado mountains!

So far as I’m aware Lovecraft never mentioned it. But it may have been the sort of item that the Lovecraft correspondent Bernard Austin Dwyer, logging forester and weird tales enthusiast, was aware of.