Happy birthday H.P. Lovecraft

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft

The man who invented Cosmic Horror.

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[GregB0Participant]

An outstanding writer who passed away much too soon.

Manley Wade Wellman did the same for Appalachian horror.

Another great post Jan.

​"​My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.​" - Clarence Buddinton Kelland

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

Just finished the Devils asteroid. Great book.

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[GregB0Participant]

There were some very talented authors during that time period that mainstreamers have no clue about.

​"​My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.​" - Clarence Buddinton Kelland

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GregB0 wrote:

There were some very talented authors during that time period that mainstreamers have no clue about.

Dunsany, Machen, Howard, Chambers, Wallace, Hodgson, to name a few. Even Conan Doyle tried his hand at “weird fiction”.

HPL and I share a hometown and I’ve toasted his memory at the Swan Point Cemetery. Fortunately, his grave site hasn’t been “loved to death” like many Poe’s, Jim Morrison’s, and others.

He had an horrific childhood, almost all of the adults in his life were mad in some fashion. His father died in a psychiatric hospital, perhaps of syphilis, and that prospect kept his mother on the edge of madness for years because, if it were true, she and her child could also be infected with what was a terminal illness. She became a hypochondriac as a result, her little son followed suit, and she essentially worried herself into an early grave.

HPL also looked exactly like his mother.

The only normal adult in HPL’s early life was his maternal grandfather and he died when the boy was eight.

As wonderful as his fiction was, it’s his correspondence which still amazes me. The amount of it is staggering. Most of it’s typewritten, most letters run several pages, and the scope of the conversation is incredible. His work as a sounding board, “script doctor”, and freelance editor for other writers is still being uncovered. de Camp and S.T. Joshi estimate HPL wrote 100,000 letters in his lifetime. I can only wonder what he spent in stamps.

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