one of Lovecraft’s funniest

Socrates in the Symposium is overheard saying that the same author ought to be able to write both comedy and tragedy. Lovecraft is an example of such a writer. Sometimes he just has too much fun:

“The proportions of [the woodchuck’s] body seemed slightly altered in a way impossible to describe, while its face had taken on an expression which no one ever saw in a woodchuck before.”

You know, I’ve just never seen that kind of expression on a woodchuck’s face before.