In looking for a way in which the re-emergent wonder-worker could be defeated, I adapted the idea that H.G. And I also remembered the mysterious Indian character Quamus that H.P. I remembered an article I had read about Native American spirits - 'manitous' in The Buffalo Bill Annual, 1955. So instead of relying on supernatural threats from the Old World, I turned to America, which (as far as I know) had never been done before. In those days I was writing solely for US publishers, and I needed the story to appeal primarily to the US market.
My wife Wiescka was expecting our first son, and I wanted to write a scary story about the unexpectedness of bringing a new life into the world.
The Manitou was written in the winter of 1974, on a kitchen table in Chiswick, West London, in five days flat.
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