Popular Post OtherEric Posted May 3, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 3, 2021 June 1936 Astounding, with the first publication of "The Shadow Out of Time". This is the first Lovecraft pulp I ever owned, my favorite Lovecraft story, and possibly my all-time favorite pulp cover, to the point where I had it made into a t-shirt. What's not to love about a cover that features Lovecraftian monstrosities who are also librarians? asimovpulps, Robot Man, Surfing Alien and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 1 hour ago, OtherEric said: June 1936 Astounding, with the first publication of "The Shadow Out of Time". This is the first Lovecraft pulp I ever owned, my favorite Lovecraft story, and possibly my all-time favorite pulp cover, to the point where I had it made into a t-shirt. What's not to love about a cover that features Lovecraftian monstrosities who are also librarians? I bet any artist who got an assignment to illustrate a Lovecraft story must have been like, "Oh No!" I think I would have been tempted to just put them in shadow and show the horrific responses of those who came into contact with them! OtherEric and IngelsFan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IngelsFan Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 I’m hoping that someday there will be a collection of all of the illustrations of HPL stories, kind of like the ERB 3 volume set. 50YrsCollctngCmcs, OtherEric, RedFury and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted May 4, 2021 Share Posted May 4, 2021 (edited) I have a Penguin HP Lovecraft collection which has one of the best cover illustrations of the creatures from The Shadow over Innsmouth. Seriously creepy. I read that last year and it was truly frightening! Edited May 4, 2021 by 50YrsCollctngCmcs IngelsFan, OtherEric and RedFury 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IngelsFan Posted May 4, 2021 Share Posted May 4, 2021 2 hours ago, 50YrsCollctngCmcs said: I have a Penguin HP Lovecraft collection which has one of the best cover illustrations of the creatures from The Shadow over Innsmouth. Seriously creepy. I read that last year and it was truly frightening! Shadow is one of my favorite of his longer works, and I enjoy the new stories written within the framework he set forth (Shadows, Weird Shadows, etc) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedFury Posted May 4, 2021 Author Share Posted May 4, 2021 Just now, IngelsFan said: Shadow is one of my favorite of his longer works, and I enjoy the new stories written within the framework he set forth (Shadows, Weird Shadows, etc) I love The Shadow over Innsmouth. Maybe it's the unusual, for Lovecraft, chase and action scenes. I have those sequel books from F&B, but I've only read a couple of stories so far. Need to dig in! IngelsFan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted May 4, 2021 Share Posted May 4, 2021 A sad item today: the October 1936 issue of Weird Tales, which has a letter from Lovecraft remembering Robert E. Howard. Lovecraft himself would pass away about half a year later. I'm including a scan of the page with the letter that I found online as well as the cover; the book itself is mine: Surfing Alien, Sarg, Xaltotun and 2 others 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 One of the interesting things about reading Lovecraft is his descriptions of the small towns and hamlets in New England where a variety of his stories take place. It was clear he had done a fair bit of traveling throughout the area. As a kid we vacationed there quite a bit and in recent years we have made a number of summer vacations there with our own children. While I never found it particularly eerie I've also never been there in the dead of winter when the night must close in fast in the hills. Driving the local byways though one does marvel at some of the isolated homesteads so one's active mind could start to imagine things. Additionally, the town of Portsmouth in New Hampshire on the Maine border is really quite interesting and could easily have been transported from England itself. Surfing Alien 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 And now we have the last story Lovecraft ever wrote, although not the last published, or even the last published in his lifetime. "The Haunter of the Dark" in the December 1936 Weird Tales. Just for fun,I'm throwing in the cover of the Marvel Comics adaptation of the story as well: Scrooge, Surfing Alien and IngelsFan 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 So where does this story fall in the "Last of the Lovecrafts"? So proudly pitched on the cover!! Surfing Alien and OtherEric 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPark Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 On 4/30/2021 at 4:07 PM, RedFury said: Here's a book from Lovecraft's personal library, with his name and address written inside the front cover in his own hand. The book is The Works of Virgil, and is mentioned in his letters. This is just so amazing to have. I am in awe. RedFury and jimjum12 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPark Posted May 5, 2021 Share Posted May 5, 2021 On 5/3/2021 at 11:31 PM, IngelsFan said: Shadow is one of my favorite of his longer works, and I enjoy the new stories written within the framework he set forth (Shadows, Weird Shadows, etc) This is my favorite Lovecraft story, but without the short blurb at the end. I wished it had ended with Spoiler the escape from Innsmouth without the transformation. Why the danger if he was really one of the gang? It just changes the perspective for me and alters what I like about the story. Does anyone know if that part was added at the request of the publisher, or something of that nature? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfing Alien Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 9 hours ago, OtherEric said: And now we have the last story Lovecraft ever wrote, although not the last published, or even the last published in his lifetime. "The Haunter of the Dark" in the December 1936 Weird Tales. Just for fun,I'm throwing in the cover of the Marvel Comics adaptation of the story as well: That Marvel 2nd series, along with Conan comics, is what led me to Lovecraft, Howard and the whole Weird Tales circle. The 1st five issues have original stories by Howard, Bloch and Lovecraft. Sleepers still. OtherEric, jimjum12, Xaltotun and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 12 hours ago, 50YrsCollctngCmcs said: So where does this story fall in the "Last of the Lovecrafts"? So proudly pitched on the cover!! "Last of the Lovecrafts" is technically wrong... there are eight stories entirely by Lovecraft that were published after "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward". But, with one exception, they were extremely minor works- four pieces of juvenilia, "Sweet Ermengarde", "The Transition of Juan Romero", and "Old Bugs". The only major story by Lovecraft after this was "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath". This is the last new story by Lovecraft in Weird Tales. I vaguely recall reading something where they said they thought the manuscript for Kadath was lost or incomplete and they didn't expect to find it, but I couldn't find the reference while skimming through Weird Tales from around this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted May 6, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted May 6, 2021 January 1937 Weird Tales. This issue actually has two Lovecraft stories. There's "The Thing on the Doorstep" by Lovecraft himself, and a revision "The Disinterment" with Duane W. Rimel. This is one of the revisions where the credited writer actually did a lot of the work, unlike most where Lovecraft was essentially the ghostwriter. RedFury, Surfing Alien, comicjack and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfing Alien Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 9 hours ago, OtherEric said: January 1937 Weird Tales. This issue actually has two Lovecraft stories. There's "The Thing on the Doorstep" by Lovecraft himself, and a revision "The Disinterment" with Duane W. Rimel. This is one of the revisions where the credited writer actually did a lot of the work, unlike most where Lovecraft was essentially the ghostwriter. I really need one of these. One of my favorite covers of 1937 but doesn't seem to show up as often as the others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 1 hour ago, Surfing Alien said: I really need one of these. One of my favorite covers of 1937 but doesn't seem to show up as often as the others. I don't recall exactly what I paid for my copy... but I do remember I paid a bit more than I usually do for Weird Tales from around then, because I just couldn't find a copy cheaper. While I'm missing lots of issues with Lovecraft poems or reprints, I do have every WT from October 1931 up with the first publication anywhere of a Lovecraft story. I think this was the last one I needed from 1933 or later. Surfing Alien 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 May 1937 Weird Tales, with "The Horror in the Burying-Ground", a revision Lovecraft did for Hazel Heald. Lovecraft passed away a couple weeks before this issue hit the stands. Scrooge, comicjack, jimjum12 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bc Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 Thanks for posting all these awesome books and the history lesson! Discovered Lovecraft in junior high and have the Ballantine reprints, but these original pulps are just too cool! -bc OtherEric and jimjum12 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted May 8, 2021 Share Posted May 8, 2021 July 1937 Weird Tales, with a poem by Lovecraft: "To Virgil Finlay, Upon his Drawing for Robert Bloch's Tale, "The Faceless God"" I'm including the poem and the drawing for reference; both taken from scans found online. I don't actually have the issue where the illustration first appeared. Surfing Alien, jimjum12 and bc 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
