here's a link for you today:

http://www.lapetiteclaudine.com/archives/011196.html

i looked for this for a long time. i have no idea how i missed it for this long, but it's a notebook that lovecraft jotted down story ideas in. lovecraft jotted down his story ideas in a notebook! it was called his "commonplace book"

most of them are what you'd imagine. stuff like "guy has bad dream, wakes up, it's real." but occasionally there are some winners

106 A thing that sat on a sleeper’s chest. Gone in morning, but something left behind.

mr. lovecraft, that is a little too weird for the 1920s