 "The Novel of the White Powder", which Lovecraft said "approaches the absolute culmination of loathsome fright", is pointed to as an inspiration for Lovecraft's stories of bodily disintegration, such as "Cool Air" and "The Colour Out of Space".Two of Robert E. Howard's stories, "Worms of the Earth" (1932) and "The Little People" (1970) were also influenced by "The Novel of the Black Seal".The story "Rx… Death!"