In the summer of 1931, Lovecraft traveled down to Florida, as far south as Key West-he had hoped to make it to Cuba to see Havana, but lacking the funds for the passage, made his way back up the East Coast by bus, taking with him the memories which inspired Devil’s Reef, when he came to write “The Shadow over Innsmouth” in the winter of that year. Lovecraft to August Derleth,, Essential Solitude1.349
If I use the tropic setting for any kind of tale, it will be one involving brooding mysteries on one of those low coral keys which lie in spectral desertion just off the shore. I also took a trip over neighbouring coral reef in a glass-bottomed boat which gave splendid view of the exotic tropical flora & fauna of the ocean floor-grasses, sponges, corals, fishes, sea-urchins, crinoids, etc.
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