Fiske, John. 1900. Myths and Myth-Makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippencott Co. (Hosted by University of Virginia Library Etext Center.)

Joshi (2002) states there was a copy of this book in Lovecraft's library at the time of his death, and that portions of the chapter "Werewolves and Swan-Maidens" appear almost verbatim in "The Shunned House."

"And do not neglect mythology and folklore. . . . Read John Fiske's Myths and Myth-Makers . . . " ("Suggestions for a Reading Guide" [DB 47])

Frazer, Sir James George. 1922. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. (Abridged by the Author.) New York: The Macmillan Co. (Hosted by Bartleby.com.)

"The other manuscript papers were brief notes, some of them accounts of the queer dreams of different persons, some of them citations from theosophical books and magazines (notably W. Scott-Elliot's Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria), and the rest comments on long-surviving secret societies and hidden cults, with references to passages in such mythological and anthropological source-books as Frazer's Golden Bough and Miss Murray's Witch-Cult in Western Europe." ("The Call of Cthulhu" [DH 128])

"And do not neglect mythology and folklore. . . . An abridgement of Frazer's Golden Bough is valuable as a compendium of odd folk-beliefs, though this encroaches somewhat on the special field of scientific anthropology." ("Suggestions for a Reading Guide" [DB 47])

"Sir James G. Frazer in The Golden Bough has presented the most extensive of all reocrds of tribal beliefs and magical rites (an abridged edition is available) . . . " ("Suggestions for a Reading Guide" [DB 47])