Quote:
"I have not yet completed the IX Chapter of Eibon, but expect to bring it to some sort of conclusion before long. I have renamed it 'The Coming of the White Worm.' The story takes its text from the saying of the prophet Lith, which no man had understood: 'There is One that inhabits the place of utter cold, and One that respireth where none other may draw breath. In the days to come He shall issue forth among the isles and cities of men, and shall bring with Him as a white doom the wind that slumbereth in His dwelling.'"
But the story was rejected by Weird Tales as too poetic, and did not see print until the April, 1941, issue of Stirring Science Stories in a drastically pared-down form. It subsequently appeared in a Canadian pulp magazine, Uncanny Tales, December 1941.
From:
The Book of Hyperborea Introduction
Word counts:
5235 Full
5256 Abridged
This seem at oods with
drastically pared-down but there may be more than one a bridged version, I shall have to check.