Связь произведений Кинга и Лавкрафта очевидна для тех, кто читал книги обоих писателей. Кинг неоднократно писал рассказы-подражания (Crouch End, Jerusalem's Lot). В Needful Things главный злодей - явно из "лавкрафтовского" мира (н-р, он упоминает долину Ленга; если не ошибаюсь, в том же романе появляется надпись про Йог-Сотота - поправьте, если что). А значит мир Лавкрафта и мир ТБ тоже связаны. Так вот, в этом контексте мне показались интересными следующие цитаты из ТБ6:
Цитата
Mia had left the lights on, and yet a queer darkness had crept into Room 1919 since her departure. Jake recognized it for what it was: todash darkness. The droning song of the idiot and the muffled, jangling chimes were coming from the closet.
Цитата
The Pere struggled to still his suicidal hands. The thing in the box raised the volume of its idiot's song, and the tips of his fingers twitched in response.
Цитата
For a moment the droning idiot's song from the box rose another notch, and Callahan understood it was hopeless, that not even God Almighty could stand against Black Thirteen.
Ничего не напоминает? Помните, как называют Азатота? Правильно, "blind idiot god". (Не уверен, что его так называл сам Лавкрафт, но прозвище теперь уже закрепилось прочно.)
Цитата
That last amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity - the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes
- The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
Цитата
Eventually there had been a hint of vast, leaping shadows, of a monstrous, half-acoustic pulsing, and of the thin, monotonous piping of an unseen flute – but that was all. Gilman decided he had picked up that last conception from what he had read in the Necronomicon about the mindless entity Azathoth, which rules all time and space from a curiously environed black throne at the centre of Chaos
- The Dreams in the Witch House
http://www.fact-inde...z/azathoth.html
Вспомним также, что Crimson King управляет Random'ом, т.е. хаосом.
Возможно, это натяжка, но все же...
PS: ср. с Crouch End:
Цитата
"It's the American woman," the boy said.
"She's lost," said the girl.
"Lost her husband."
"Lost her way."
"Found the darker way."
"The road that leads into the funnel."
"Lost her hope."
"Found the Whistler from the Stars -- "
" -- Eater of Dimensions -- "
" -- the Blind Piper -- "
PPS: Еще насчет связи: Ньярлатотеп - слуга Азатота. А злобный трикстер Гонт идеально подходит под образ Ньярлатотепа.