SOURCE: "Snulbug" by Anthony Boucher (Unknown, December 1941).

DESCRIPTION: "...His basic design was impressive enough -- snakes for hair, curling tusksm a sharp-tipped tail, all the works -- but he was something under an inch tall." ("Snulbug" by Anthony Boucher)

NOTES: Snulbug describes himself as "a runt". He is a demon of the Salalmander variety (loves fire) but was put in a cold incubator and turned out very small. He was once used by a psychiatrist to scare patients who were afraid of little green men. It didn't work too well. They preferred being scared of little green men. Hitchens uses Snulbug's tiny powers to get a newspaper from the future. Only problem is: time paradoxes aren't allowed. Hitchens has to resort to good old-fashioned psychology to make the money to start his medical company.

HISTORY:  Boucher tips his hat to H. P. Lovecraft in this tale by naming the horse Hitchens bets on "Alhazred". See also Boucher's Nellthu.

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