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[Odalisque]

Quote Originally Posted by hopfrog

but what really delighted me is that they reprinted Lumley's extension of Lovecraft's "The Thing in the Moonlight" -- and I think this rare piece has had but one reprinting since its initial publication.

It first appeared in the Arkham Collector, and was reprinted in Dark Horizons. If I hunted through my collection of such things, I could let you know the issue numbers... But, as of this moment, both magazines are a bit buried.

[Joel]

Lumley's extension of 'The Thing in the Moonlight' was actually the cover story in an early issue of Fantasy Tales. I don't think it's that good, though the illustration on the cover is wonderful. No doubt the best Lumley story is a theme already debated here, but (in his Lovecraftian vein) I've always liked 'Haggopian'.

[Odalisque]

Quote Originally Posted by Joel

Lumley's extension of 'The Thing in the Moonlight' was actually the cover story in an early issue of Fantasy Tales. I don't think it's that good, though the illustration on the cover is wonderful. No doubt the best Lumley story is a theme already debated here, but (in his Lovecraftian vein) I've always liked 'Haggopian'.

You're right -- it was Fantasy Tales, not Dark Horizons. Silly me.

[Nemonymous]

Thanks to Craig Herbertson (HERE) for assiduously seeking and then finding that image of ‘The Haunter of the Dark’ (a UK Panther paperback collection from the Sixties of some HP Lovecraft stories).

Michel Parry in 1965 picked this book off the shelf in the Colchester WH Smiths as he recommended it to me. We had just made a chance meeting in that shop; we were fellow sixth-formers at the time. I never looked back after buying it new all those years ago.
As with many books, this particular edition I lost during the intervening years: and this is the first time I’ve seen the cover for a very long while. It is amazingly effective. Or is that just nostalgia working?

[Nemonymous]

Quote Originally Posted by Nemonymous

Thanks to Craig Herbertson (HERE) for assiduously seeking and then finding that image of ‘The Haunter of the Dark’ (a UK Panther paperback collection from the Sixties of some HP Lovecraft stories). Michel Parry in 1965 picked this book off the shelf in the Colchester WH Smiths as he recommended it to me. We had just made a chance meeting in that shop; we were fellow sixth-formers at the time. I never looked back after buying it new all those years ago. As with many books, this particular edition I lost during the intervening years: and this is the first time I’ve seen the cover for a very long while. It is amazingly effective. Or is that just nostalgia working?

When and how was your first encounter with HPL?
And was it seminal or terminal?

[paeng]

"Guillermo Del Toro Developing Lovecraftian Video Game"

http://weirdtales.net/wordpress/2010...an-video-game/

[paeng]

Tintin and Lovecraft

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[Evans]

I don't know if this if of any interest to anyone here:

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Quote Originally Posted by Nemonymous

When and how was your first encounter with HPL? And was it seminal or terminal?

I first read Lovecraft when I was about sixteen and, though the first couple of stories I came across weren't great, I was completely smitten with his themes and style of story telling.

Though I loved Dracula I had never read much of what would be considered Horror before - rather unfairly I guess I had always connected it with the sort of Charles Birkin-Pan Books-Screaming Skull Cover sort of thing - but Lovecraft instantly won me over with his journalistic, almost dry, yet paradoxically rich decaying gothic prose style. The more I read the more I became enthused about it (and with it). When ever I read back over one of his stories I'm struck by the fact that apart from anything else he was very good prose stylist.

Also, along with J.R.R. Tolkien he was one of the two writers who first helped open my eyes to the realisation of other personal and metaphysical view points than the sometime vaguely humanistic, sometimes vaguely low Christian, material moralist modernism that people had spent years trying to drum into me. It was an incredibly liberating feeling. And, of course, he helped introduce me on to many, many other fine writers.

Sadly of recent years I find it harder to enjoy Lovecraft as much as I used because of all the baggage that comes with him.

[hopfrog]

I've been obsessively writing my new book, SOME UNKNOWN GULF OF NIGHT, a sequence of 36 prose-poems/vignettes based on Fungi from Yuggoth -- & it is amazing that the more I read Lovecraft's fiction and poetry, the more magnificent it becomes. I've developed this really intimate relationship with his Works. I feel so inspired with this new thing that I think I'll have it completed before I attend MythosCon. The Lovecraftian fever burns brighter than ever before. Too, I've just finish'd Vol, I of I AM PROVIDENCE, and reading this superb account of his Life also feeds my fanaticism. Lovecraft is endlessly fascinating and, for this writer, inspiring. I love that I can spend the rest of my life studying his poetry and prose and penning my own books that pay homage to his genius, book after book after book.

[Dr. Valzer]

Your enthusiasm for the Old Gentleman is always inspring, Wilum. I'm looking forward to having the "Lovecraftian fever" reach a new pitch at MythosCon.

Speaking of which, I know that TLO members nomis, Matt Cardin, Wilum, Joe Pulver, Ramsey Campbell, and myself will be at MythosCon in January. Is anyone else here attending? I think it's shaping up to be the weird fiction event.

Richard

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