I found a new short yarn by Lovecraft’s friend Everett McNeil. Sadly it’s not an unknown fantasy to add to those in his Dickon Bend-the-Bow and other Wonder Tales, but rather one of his early wry ‘backwoods America’ yarns titled “The Reporter and the Bear”. It appeared in The Atlanta Constitution for 2nd July 1899, and has popped up now because Archive.org has been ingesting newspapers on microfilm. Thankfully it’s readable. In my biography of McNeil, Good Old Mac (2013) I listed this as known but not seen…

The Reporter and the Bear”, Salt Lake Herald, July 1899

Now it can be read again.