E. Hoffmann Price - His Own Greatest Creation!

Each of the following cover images, place holders, or title pages, when clicked on, will take you directly to the first page of the story, article or letter they contain by E. Hoffmann Price.

Each of the stories, articles and letters are on display on Flickr in jpg picture format for each page; and if you like what you see, for your convenience, there is also a link just below each picture that will take you directly to a single pdf file of the complete story, article or letter.

Note: Many of the pulp fiction tales written by E. Hoffmann Price between 1925 and 1955 would not be considered “Politically Correct” at this time; because they were written to the then current standards, and not to today’s. So please don’t be offended by Price using language that “Mark Twain” also used in his time.

Jul-1925                                                  May-Jun-1933
              

Jan-1934                                                  Feb-1934
              

Apr-1934                                                  Jul-1934
              

Apr-1935                                                  Dec-1935
              

Jan-1936                                                  Jan-1936
               

Sep-1936                                                  Jul-1937
              

Mar-1938                                                 Jun-1938
                  

Jul-1938                                                   Nov-1938
                 

Nov-1938                                                Dec-1938
             

Dec-1938                                                 Jun-24-1939
             

Aug-05-1939                                          Sep-02-1939
               

Dec-30-1939

E. Hoffmann Price - His Own Greatest Creation!

Each of the following cover images, place holders, or title pages, when clicked on, will take you directly to the first page of the story, article or letter they contain by E. Hoffmann Price.

Each of the stories, articles and letters are on display on Flickr in jpg picture format for each page; and if you like what you see, for your convenience, there is also a link just below each picture that will take you directly to a single pdf file of the complete story, article or letter.

Note: Many of the pulp fiction tales written by E. Hoffmann Price between 1925 and 1955 would not be considered “Politically Correct” at this time; because they were written to the then current standards, and not to today’s. So please don’t be offended by Price using language that “Mark Twain” also used in his time.

Jan-1940                                                 Jan-13-1940
              

Feb-03-1940                                          Feb-17-1940
              

May-1940                                                 May-11-1940
              

Jul-27-1940                                              Aug-03-1940
               

Aug-10-1940                                            Aug-17-1940
              

Aug-24-1940                                            Sep-28-1940
               

Nov-02-1940                                            Nov-09-1940
               

Nov-16-1940                                            Nov-23-1940
              

Nov-30-1940                                            Dec-21-1940
              

Feb-1941                                                    Mar-08-1941
               

Apr-1941                                                    Jun-1943
                 

Dec-1943                                                    Dec-1943
                

Feb-1944                                                    Feb-1944
           

Feb-1944                                               Jul-1944
                    

Spring-1945                                               Apr-1945
           

Fall-1945                                                    Oct-1949
              

E. Hoffmann Price - His Own Greatest Creation!

Each of the following cover images, place holders, or title pages, when clicked on, will take you directly to the first page of the story, article or letter they contain by E. Hoffmann Price.

Each of the stories, articles and letters are on display on Flickr in jpg picture format for each page; and if you like what you see, for your convenience, there is also a link just below each picture that will take you directly to a single pdf file of the complete story, article or letter.

Note: Many of the pulp fiction tales written by E. Hoffmann Price between 1925 and 1955 would not be considered “Politically Correct” at this time; because they were written to the then current standards, and not to today’s.  So please don’t be offended by Price using language that “Mark Twain” also used in his time.

Mar-1950                                               Oct-1950
              

May-1951                                                Oct-1951
              

Dec-1951                                                 Dec-1951
              

Jun-Jul-1953

Jan-Feb-1971                                        May-1971
              

May-1971

1972

1973

1974

Feb-1977                                                 Feb-27-1977
               

1977

1978

The Fantastic World Of H. P. Lovecraft

O Mundo Fantástico De H. P. Lovecraft – The Fantastic World Of H. P. Lovecraft

A New Book from Brazil in the Portuguese Language,

Is Now Available for Advance Purchase From:

http://www.sitelovecraft.com/

   This is a very limited edition collection, currently planning on a July 2012 release, so you need to order soon if you want to own a copy; and if you would like your name included in the book!

There are also images of and details on the book on Facebook At:

http://www.facebook.com/omundofantasticohplovecraft

   And on YouTube at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAehwq2GsfM

   If the cover of the book looks slightly familiar to you, it may be that you have looked through my “Lovecraft’s Providence, From A Different Angle,” or “Providence, Rhode Island: The Streets” photo collections on Flickr and seen the source photo, B_33A.  And I am very proud to have been able to make a contribution to this book!

B_33A, The Source Image for the cover of O Mundo Fantástico De H. P. Lovecraft

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/collections/

The Ultimate View of College Hil, Providence, Rhode Island, from 20_Aug-1990.

Providence, Rhode Island – College Hill – Panorama Number 1, Benefit Square to Providence Harbor (North to South)
My Favorite Providence Panorama!

This is the closest you will ever get to what I saw on August 20th., 1990, from the (now closed to the public) rooftop of One Financial Plaza!

Download this panorama, then zoom in until it fills your screen from top to bottom, and pan from left to right to get a real sense of what I saw when I looked out over College Hill.

This view still haunts my dreams; and I now share it with you!

I’ve been experimenting with Autostitch, a free, fully-automatic, 2D photo-panorama image stitcher, to create panoramas of some of the photos I shot in Providence and Boston in 1990 (which are on display at http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/collections/); and when the pictures blend together properly, they can can create an image that is far closer to what I saw with my naked eyes; and they are wonderful.

Some of the experiments were hard to crop cleanly, but I decided to leave those images online too, because they still display a wider world view.

Let me know what you think of these “widescreen” Lovecraftian images.

To see what I’ve done so far, try the two links below:

Detail Mode:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=41340252@N08&q=panorama

Slideshow Mode:
http://www.flickr.com/search/show/?q=panorama&w=41340252%40N08&z=e

E. Hoffmann Price - His Own Greatest Creation!

If you visit the CthulhuWho1 Flickr Collections link below, you’ll have access to the nearly 1900 images currently on display there (with about 40 more being prepared for uploading next), which chronicle the literary life of E. Hoffmann Price.

And the companion text of the Bibliography, with far more detail, along with a few surprise items, will soon be posted here at CthulhuWho1.com; and it will be in several file formats to meet everyone’s needs.

E. Hoffmann Price_ A Visual-Bibliography Collections Screen

E. Hoffmann Price: A Visual-Bibliography:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/collections/72157629147360777/

If you’d like to go directly to one of the decades, in Detail (my favorite), or Thumbnails format, use one of the following links:

E.H.P. 1920′s (27 photos)
Detail: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157629147338841/detail/
Thumbnails: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157629147338841/

E.H.P. 1930′s (513 photos) (More being prepared right now!)
Detail: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157629148158649/detail/
Thumbnails: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157629148158649/

E.H.P. 1940′s (783 photos)
Detail: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157629291332747/detail/
Thumbnails: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157629291332747/

E.H.P. 1950′s (139 photos)
Detail: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157629448936959/detail/
Thumbnails: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157629448936959/

E.H.P. 1960′s (15 photos)
Detail: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157629485590543/detail/
Thumbnails: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157629485590543/

E.H.P. 1970′s (129 photos) (Including personal letters.)
Detail: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157629485951471/detail/
Thumbnails: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157629485951471/

E.H.P. 1980′s (117 photos) (Including personal letters, photos, and letters from Lovecraft.)
Detail: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157629486623533/detail/
Thumbnails: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157629486623533/

E.H.P. 1990′s (17 photos)
Detail: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157629489189513/detail/
Thumbnails: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157629489189513/

E.H.P. 2000′s (104 photos)
Detail: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157629124792264/detail/
Thumbnails: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157629124792264/

E.H.P. 2010′s (37 photos)
Detail: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157629601400573/detail/
Thumbnails: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157629601400573/

The following text is the Introduction to the E. Hoffmann Price Flickr Collections:

E. Hoffmann Price: A Visual-Bibliography and More

A decade by decade chronological collection of book and magazine covers, story pages, photographs, letters, documents and more, to chronicle the literary life of the writer E. Hoffmann Price.

The 1920′s through the 2000′s decades of this collection are now fully stocked, and the 2010′s are starting to be uploaded. There will also be ongoing additions and corrections to each decade.

The magazine images are arranged monthly by their titles; the books are being arranged by their publication dates, and the personal letters are being arranged by letter date or postmark.

The rest of the images from the 2010′s will be uploaded as soon as they are finalized.

If you have a jpg picture of any of the covers that are missing from this collection, or you have something that is in better condition than what is on display here, or you have any other items that you believe would fit into this collection chronologically, please send a high-quality copy of them to willhart at roadrunner dot com; and you will receive full credit for each item posted from you.

This collection is a living document, that everyone can help to expand by contributing images from their own collections. It is hoped that this Visual Bibliography will encourage people to seek out the many and varied works of E. Hoffmann Price, in older collectibles, in newly printed collections; and that everyone will support the publishers producing new editions of E. Hoffmann Price materials.

As soon as all of the decades of images are posted here, the companion text of the Bibliography, in title and chronological sequence, will be made available on the CthulhuWho1.com blog. This massive bibliography contains a much larger amount of data and cross-referencing than could be included here with the image files.

CREDIT

This collection would not be possible without the images and data provided by the following resources:

The amazingly vast wealth of pulp images and data of Galactic Central:
http://www.philsp.com

The data and images of the Internet Speculative Fiction Database:
http://www.isfdb.org

The PulpGen E. Hoffmann Price bibliography and downloadable e-texts:
http://www.pulpgen.com/pulp

The E. Hoffmann Price bibliographical data of Dreamers.com :
http://dreamers.com/lospulps

The incredible Virgil Utter “EHP: A Bibliography” (November, 2000)
Published in:
Book of the Dead
Friends of Yesteryear:
Fictioneers & Others
Arkham House 2001

HPLovecraft.com for the beautifully corrected text of “Through the Gates of the Silver Key.”
http://www.hplovecraft.com

And last, but far from least, everyone who has posted any images or data related to E. Hoffmann Price, so we could all share the information on the Internet!

DISCLAIMER

Most images in this collection, unless otherwise noted, were taken from the Internet and are assumed to be in the public domain. In the event that there is a problem or error with copyrighted material, the break of the copyright is unintentional and noncommercial and the material will be removed immediately upon presented proof.

It should also be noted that many of the pulp fiction tales written by E. Hoffmann Price between 1925 and 1955 would not be considered “Politically Correct” at this time; because they were written to the then current standards, and not to today’s. Please don’t be offended by Price using language that “Mark Twain” also used.

A MINI BIO

E. Hoffmann Price (Edgar Hoffmann Trooper Price)

Between 3-July-1898, the day he was born in Fowler, California, and 18-June-1988, the day he died in Redwood City, California, he squeezed more out of Life than a dozen others might have.

A very prolific American writer of popular fiction for the pulp magazine marketplace, who was most widely known as a collaborator with H. P. Lovecraft on “Through the Gates of the Silver Key”; and he was one of the group that included Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and Clark Ashton Smith, who all wrote regularly for editor Farnsworth Wright’s Weird Tales Magazine.

And yet, he was so much more.

During his life, he managed to travel widely and maintain friendships with many other pulp writers and fans.

He was also the only pulp writer known to have met face-to-face with all three of the great legendary Weird Tales writers, Robert E. Howard, H. P. Lovecraft, and Clark Ashton Smith during his many trips back and forth across the country.

As a teenager, he joined the U.S. Army and served in the Philippines, and along the border with Mexico. During World War I, he served in the American Expeditionary Force in France. After the war, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point before moving on to a later hitch with the Coast Artillery in 1923-24.

As his military career was winding down, he had begun writing; and continued to do so while he worked as a supervisor for Union Carbide, from 1924 to 1932, before becoming a full-time writer.

He was a champion fencer, boxer, drinker, horseman, swordsman, an amateur Orientalist, and a student of the Arabic language; he truly was a, “real live soldier of fortune,” as author Jack Williamson called him in his 1984 autobiography Wonder’s Child.

In his later years, up until his death in his late 80′s, he worked on his novels, was a steady contributor to fanzines, and wrote about his fellow writers, their works, and the early pulp days.

From 1924, when he had his first published story in Droll Stories, to 1955, and the death of the Pulp Magazine era, when he had one of his last pulp stories published in Western Story Roundup, under his own name, and under many personal and house pseudonyms, E. Hoffmann Price produced hundreds of pieces of fiction for a wide range of publications, including: Adventure, Alibi, All Detective, Argosy, Argosy Weekly, Avon Fantasy Reader, Big-Book Western, Black Mask, Candid Detective, Clues Detective Stories, Complete Stories, Detective Fiction Weekly, Dime Detective, Dime Western, Doc Savage, Double Action Gang, Droll Stories, Dynamic Adventures, Fantastic Universe, Fantasy, Fantasy Fan, Fighting Western, 5 Detective Novels, Five Novels, Gold Seal Detective, Golden Fleece, Hollywood Detective, Horror Stories, Jungle Stories, Leading Western, Magic Carpet, Mammoth Adventure, Mystery Adventure, Narraciones Terroríficas, New Argosy, New Detective, New Western, Nickel Detective, Oriental Stories, Phantom Detective, Planet Stories, Popular Detective, Private Detective Stories, Range Riders Western, Real Western Romances, Real Western Stories, Red Star Adventures, Romantic Detective, Romantic Western, Saucy Romantic Adventures, Science Fiction Quarterly, Short Stories, Silver Buck Western, Six-Gun Western, Smashing Detective Stories, South Sea Stories, Sovereign, Speed Adventure Stories, Speed Detective, Speed Mystery, Speed Western Stories, Spicy Adventure Stories, Spicy Detective Stories, Spicy Mystery Stories, Spicy Western Stories, Spy Novels, Spy Stories, Star Detective, Star Western, Strange Detective Stories, Strange Love Stories, Strange Stories, Super-Detective Stories, 10 Action Adventures, Ten Story Gang, Terror Tales, Thrilling Adventures, Thrilling Detective, Thrilling Spy Stories, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Top-Notch, True Gang Life, 12 Adventure Stories, Underworld Detective, Unknown, Unknown Fantasy Fiction, Unknown Worlds, Weird Tales, Western Dime Novels, Western Story, and Western Story Roundup.

And during his Pulp Writing years, E. Hoffmann Price used the following personal and house pseudonyms in the publications listed with each name:
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Randolph Barr:
Spicy Detective Stories
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Daniel Brent:
Spicy Western Stories
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Ralph Carle:
Spicy-Adventure Stories
Spicy Western Stories
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Walter Cook:
Speed Western Stories
Spicy-Adventure Stories
Spicy Detective
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Arthur Cutler:
Speed Western Stories
Spicy-Adventure Stories
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Hamlin Daly:
All Detective Magazine
Argosy
Famous Western
Private Detective Stories
Range Riders Western
Romantic Western
Science Fiction Quarterly
Spicy-Adventure Stories
Spicy Mystery Stories
Spicy Western Stories
Thrilling Adventures
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William Decatur:
Speed Adventure Stories
Spicy Adventure Stories
Spicy Mystery Stories
Speed Western Stories
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Frank Decker:
Spicy-Adventure Stories
Spicy Mystery Stories
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Ralph Sedgwick Douglas:
Fighting Western
Speed Western Stories
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Harold Lee Grace:
Spicy-Adventure
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Paul Hanna:
Spicy Mystery
Speed Western Stories
Spicy Western Stories
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R. T. Maynard:
Speed Mystery
Spicy Western Stories
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Martin McCall:
Action Adventure Stories
Red Star Adventures
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Frederick C. Olmstead:
Speed Western Stories
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Carl Pearson:
Romantic Detective
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John Phillips:
Spicy-Adventure Stories
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Ralph Powers:
Adventure Stories
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Harvey Saunders:
Blazing Western
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T. E. Soames:
Fighting Western
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Paul Stevens:
Spicy Mystery Stories
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John Wayne:
Spicy-Adventure Stories
Spicy Mystery
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Stan Warner:
Spicy Detective Stories
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It should be noted, for those looking for more E. Hoffmann Price stories published under house pseudonyms, that among the many authors given this treatment, Hugh B. Cave was also published under the house names, William Decatur, Paul Hanna, R. T. Maynard, and John Wayne; while author Robert E. Howard had two tales reprinted under the William Decatur (Revenge by Proxy) and R. T. Maynard (Nothing to Lose) names too.

E. Hoffmann Price knew how to write, and he knew how to sell.

And yet, he is still today primarily known as a Lovecraft collaborator and Weird Tales writer who also wrote adventure stories with Oriental settings and atmosphere; even though most of his life’s work had nothing to do with Lovecraft or Weird Tales.

In his obituary in the June 30, 1988 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle, he was called a, “Science-fiction writer.”

I suspect that part of the problem is that most genre collectors have little interest in other genres than their favorites, Detective, Mystery, Weird Tales, or Western Tales; each ignores the other, and fails to look at the sum total of Price’s incredible output. And writing under many different pseudonyms, and using rewritten versions, or renamed versions of many stories also adds to the confusion.

He was awarded the World Fantasy Award in 1984 for Lifetime Achievement.

Wilum H. Pugmire Self-Portrait1 23-Nov-2011 MrWilum’s Channel – YouTube

Wilum H. Pugmire Self-Portrait2 23-Nov-2011 MrWilum’s Channel – YouTube

I just got word today, that 60-year-old Wilum has been admitted to a Seattle Hospital due to the worsening condition of his heart disease.

It looks like his heart may be in worse shape than anyone imagined; so there is no way to tell how much time he still has left to share with us.

I spoke with him a few minutes ago by phone, and he said I could reveal that he is in the hospital; but he’s not sure when (or if) he’s going home from there.

He has no computer access in the hospital, but I hope everyone will keep him in their thoughts, prayers, emails, and blogs; and that we will all be aware of just how special a person he is, and how much he has brought to each of our lives.

Will Hart

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A Good News Update 29-November-2011

Wilum H. Pugmire Is Out of the Hospital!

Good News!

Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire is tired, and in great need of peace, quiet, a hot bath, and some home bed-rest, but he is at least well enough to return home!

I spoke with him at 10:30 a.m. this morning as he was being released from the hospital, and he asked that everyone be patient with him being pretty quiet online on Facebook, YouTube, and in Emails for awhile; while he takes care of health and family matters.

When he is up to it, he will put out a short YouTube and Facebook message for everyone, but he is not currently up to dealing with a flood of communication.

Let’s just all celebrate that he is still with us!

Will Hart
(CthulhuWho1)

Happy 121st. Birthday H. P. Lovecraft!

One year ago today, I released my reading of H. P. Lovecraft’s cosmic sonnet sequence, “Fungi from Yuggoth” as a 120th. birthday present to the old gentleman.

And now, one year later, I hold in my hands, Wilum H. Pugmire’s “Some Unknown Gulf of Night,”  published by Arcane Wisdom; a darkly beautiful, exotic, erotic, numbered collection, containing a prose poem companion for each of the sonnets in Lovecraft’s “Fungi from Yuggoth;” with strong influences of Oscar Wilde, Edgar A. Poe, Baudelaire and the Decadents too.

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I can’t help but see the publication of “Some Unknown Gulf of Night” as a wonderful 121st. birthday present to H. P. Lovecraft; and I can’t help being doubly excited by Wilum’s claim that it was his listening to my readings of Lovecraft’s sonnets, that I posted on YouTube last year, that finally inspired him to write the prose poems he had been meaning to write for a long time.

I am also extremely honored that my readings, and inspiration, have led Wilum to dedicate this book to me!

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If you are a serious fan of H. P. Lovecraft’s, “Fungi from Yuggoth,” please make every effort you can to get your hands on one of the 100 signed and numbered hardcover copies of Wilum H. Pugmire’s, “Some Unknown Gulf of Night,” from Horror Mall!

http://www.horror-mall.com/SOME-UNKNOWN-GULF-OF-NIGHT-by-W.-H.-Pugmire-Signed-Limited-Edition-p-22202.html

If you miss out on one of the limited edition hardcover copies, with the beautiful Pickmanesque wrap-around cover and interior illustrations by Matthew Jaffe, you’ll have to wait until the trade paperback copy is released sometime next year; but in any format, this volume is a must-have for fans of “Fungi from Yuggoth!”

I’m posting this message, because I truly believe this delightfully perverse 191 page volume, is THE best companion work ever written to sit side-by-side with H. P. Lovecraft’s “Fungi from Yuggoth;” and that it will be a highly prized collector’s item as the years go by.

For more on “Some Unknown Gulf of Night,” please browse through the following web sites:

http://www.youtube.com/user/MrWilum

http://lovecraftianhorror.blogspot.com/

http://lovecraftzine.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/free-audio-chapter-from-some-unknown-gulf-of-night-by-w-h-pugmire/

On a different subject: “Unknown Autograph 01″, from the autograph pages of my copy of the MythosCon Program Booklet that I published here in March, has been positively confirmed as being that of Chris Jarocha-Ernst.

Chris wrote to me to confirm this; so I only have four more names to identify!

Will Hart aka CthulhuWho1

Curator of: The Lovecraft Flickr Collections at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/collections/

And The CthulhuWho1 YouTube Channel at:

http://www.youtube.com/user/CthulhuWho1

Lovecraft and His Wife in Color!

No. Not Howard and Sonia; but Margaret and Danny!

I’m sorry, but I couldn’t resist that…

Charles “Danny” Lovecraft, the publisher of P’rea Press Books in Australia (http://www.preapress.com/) and his wife Margaret Barnes-Lovecraft, were on the last leg of their most recent American vacation when they stopped in Los Angeles for a few days before boarding their flight home to Australia.

My wife Jean and I drove up to Hollywood late on Friday evening (28-Jan-2011) to meet and greet Danny and Margaret on their first night in the area; and Danny and I exchanged a few collector’s items.

The books that Danny gave to me were all wonderful titles that I didn’t have in my collection yet, including:

But the truly unexpected treat that he and Margaret gave to me, was a copy of the MythosCon 2011 Program Booklet, that they had made priceless by having it signed by Fifty-One(!) of the attendees, including, Thea Alexander, Martin Andersson, Peter Atkins, Mark Boniece, Jason V. Brock, Ramsey Campbell, Peter Cannon, Matt Cardin, Dan Clore, Scott Connors, Richard Dakan, Walt DeBill, Mike Dubisch, Jason Eckhardt, Dennis Etchison, Alan Dean Foster, Terry Ganley, W. Paul Ganley, Richard Gavin, Cody Goodfellow, Ron Hilger, Chuck Hoffman, Derrick Hussey, S. T. Joshi, Allen Koszowski, Donovan Loucks, Pamela H. Loucks, Charles “Danny” Lovecraft, Margaret Barnes-Lovecraft, Steve Mariconda, Adam Niswander, William F. Nolan, John Pelan, Dorothea Nissen Phillips, Fred Phillips, Carol Price, Robert M. Price, Wilum H. Pugmire, Juha-Matti Rajala, Ann K. Schwader, Ben Schwader, Darrell Schweitzer, Donald Sidney-Fryer, Michael A. Stackpole, Simon Strantzas, Jonathan Thomas, and five others whose signatures I haven’t deciphered yet!

I’ve scanned a complete copy of the booklet to share here with everyone in a 300 d.p.i. PDF format; and I’ll be posting all of the pages in a 600 d.p.i. format later in my Lovecraftian Flickr Collections; including detailed scans of the five autographs that I’m still trying to decipher.

The MythosCon 2011 Program Booklet Jan 6-9, 2011:

MythosCon 2011 Program Booklet Jan 6-9, 2011

With the Lovecraft’s having already been to Phoenix, Sedona, Fresno, Yosemite, Sacramento, Auburn, Berkely, Pacific Grove, Carmel, Hearst Castle, and MythosCon 2011 (which I couldn’t attend this year), I wasn’t sure what I could show them in the Los Angeles area that would compare with the sights they had already seen; but I gave it my best shot!

Over the next few days, we covered many freeway and surface street miles to see numerous famous and infamous spots, far too many to cover all of them in this brief over-view; and to have several great Vegan meals that even an Omnivore like myself could enjoy.  My Vegan House in Hollywood (http://myveganhouse.com/Home.php), and the two-story Whole Foods in Pasadena (http://wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/arroyo/) were both great dining experiences!

We passed by and through many famous locations, like the 2nd. Street Tunnel in Los Angeles, which is seen in so many movies; including Bladerunner:

We saw the death sites of Janis Joplin, John Belushi, River Phoenix and others:

We saw the outside of places like The Beverly Hills Hotel:

But we found it more fun to visit the inside of the Men’s Restroom in the Will Rogers Memorial Park across the street, where George Michaels gave his private performance before his arrest. If you have a good sense of humor, you might appreciate the fact that one of Will Rogers‘ most famous quotes was, “I never met a man that I didn’t like.”:

We saw many Beverly Hills Mansions while driving through the celebrity filled neighborhood; mostly through gates, and over hedges:

We got to spend a few minutes with the legendary poet and scholar Donald Sidney-Fryer in his home in Los Angeles; but due to a scheduled tour elsewhere, we had to leave far too soon:

With reservations made weeks in advance, we were able to have a private multi-hour tour through the beautiful Virginia Robinson Estate and Gardens in Beverly Hills (http://www.seeing-stars.com/Live/RobinsonEstate.shtml, and http://www.robinsongardens.org/index.html):

Wherever we went in the Hollywood area, we could see the Hollywood Sign and the Griffith Park Observatory; which constantly reminded us of where we were:

In the North Hollywood Park, we met a Nutty Local Resident that we couldn’t resist sharing a snack with:

When we went to the historic Greystone Mansion and Park in Beverly Hills (not very well known to tourists, but a must-see sight if you are a film fan!), we got to see a television crew in action shooting an episode of NCIS (http://www.seeing-stars.com/live/Greystone.shtml, and http://www.greystonemansion.org/):

By making reservations a couple of weeks in advance, we were able to spend several hours exploring and photographing the phenomenal Greek, Roman, and Etruscan Antiquities in the stunning Roman-inspired architecture and gardens of the Getty Villa, which over-looks the Pacific Ocean in Malibu (http://www.getty.edu/visit/):

We visited several well-known movie and television stars, including Don Adams, Jack Benny, Mel Blanc, Errol Flynn, Michael Landon, Darren McGavin, Rod Steiger, Jimmy Stewart, Spencer Tracy, and even Vampira.

And we even had Harvey the Pooka join us in Glendale when we went to visit with Jimmy Stewart:

We paid our respects to two of the great Filmmakers, Albert “Cubby” Broccoli (the Producer of most of the James Bond films), and Walt Disney:

At the Hillside Memorial Park (Jewish Cemetery), we found an example of what inspired Leonard Nimoy to create his “Live Long and Prosper” hand-sign:

We enjoyed an all-star classic comedy tour with, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Marty Feldman, Curly Howard, Moe Howard, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel, and Larry Fine (although the Photo Police would not allow us to take any pictures with him!):

We got up-close and personal with the inner workings of the Warner Brothers Burbank Movie Studios by taking their VIP Tour (http://vipstudiotour.warnerbros.com/).  And we have to thank Charlie Sheen for being a no-show the week we were there (he’d been out about a week or so at that time); which made it possible for us to enter and visit his “Two and a Half Men” sound stage and sets during our tour!

And when we found Merlotte’s in the Jungle section of the Warner Bros back lot, we tried to stop for a bottle of True Blood, but they were closed for the season!

We visited numerous new and used book stores, and found the Mystery & Imagination Bookstore in Glendale to be among the best still open in the Los Angeles area (http://www.mysteryandimagination.com/):

And finally, at the end, what better last-minute souvenir or gift shop could a horror fan find in Los Angeles, than “Skeletons in the Closet,” the Gift Shop in the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office? And it is located in the old Los Angeles General Hospital building (http://www.lacoroner.com/Default.aspx). A Gift Shop at the Coroner’s Office; now that’s what I call Black Humor!

And if you are curious as to what items I just had to take home, they were the following conversation starters:

And my single favorite item, which already sparked the interest of many while I was recently on Jury Duty:

We didn’t see everything we wanted to see, but we did see more than most people will ever see in the same amount of time we had together!

Danny & Margaret, I hope this brings some fun memories back to you!

And I hope it shows a slightly different side of the Los Angeles area to everyone!

ps
No. I don’t live in Los Angeles County.
I live about 35 miles South of Los Angeles, in Orange County,
in the city of Fullerton, just North of Anaheim, the home of Disneyland;
and I can hear and feel (and sometimes see) the fireworks from there
every night.

pps

Charles “Danny” Lovecraft is not related to H. P. Lovecraft.

But he loves H. P. Lovecraft’s Prose and Poetry enough to have

had his last name legally changed to Lovecraft.

Thanks to Cheryl (ajbx10 of the Historical Lovecraft group on Yahoo), I got the link that lead me to Issue #1 of the Lovecraft eZine: “A free online magazine featuring lovecraftian horror.” Which is being published here at WordPress by Mike Davis.

If you like Lovecraftian fiction (And who reading this doesn’t?), and Free is one of your favorite words, then head over to Mike’s blog at http://lovecraftzine.wordpress.com/ and subscribe now so you won’t miss an issue.

You can also jump right into Issue #1 by going directly to http://lovecraftzine.wordpress.com/issues/issue-1-february-2011/ where you’ll find Mike’s Introduction, and the first four stories: Sledding and Starlings by Bruce L. Priddy, Rickman’s Plasma by William Meikle, The Brown Tower by John Prescott, and The Crane Horror by Bruce Durham.

You’ll also find links and more to go along with each issue.

Please support Mike and his new publication by spreading the word that there is a new Lovecraftian eZine that will be featuring four new stories each month; plus frequent blogging by Mike between each issue.

I’ve just heard from Jessie Lilley, the beautiful, intelligent, and cat-loving (there goes my heart!) Editor of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, that the upcoming April issue, will have quite a bit of coverage on H. P. Lovecraft and his writings, as well as the films based on his work. These articles are by Charles Coulombe, Brad Linaweaver and Ron Garmon.

They are still looking for photos and printable memorabilia to help illustrate these articles. So if you have something they might be able to use, or that they might be allowed to borrow from your archives to scan and then return, contact her at: jessielilley@famousmonsters.com

For more information on Jessie Lilley, including some great photos, please see the interviews at the following links:

http://drunkenseveredhead.blogspot.com/2010/05/b-new-famous-monsters-editor-jessie.html

http://www.fatally-yours.com/interviews/interview-with-publisher-jessie-lilley/

Several people asked for it, and it is finally a reality.

Fire up your iTunes, and click on the Advanced Menu, then the Subscribe to Podcast option, and paste in http://feeds.feedburner.com/Cthulhuwho1sBlog as the URL for the podcast.

Or, you can fire up your iTunes, go to the iTunes Store, and search for CthulhuWho1, and then click on Subscribe once it finds the CthulhuWho1′s Blog files.

Right now, the listings only goes back 55 posts; but I am working to see what I can do to get all of the mp3 files available all the time through iTunes.

Keep watching for updates here, and I’ll do my part to make this work well for everybody!

Yours Truly,

CthulhuWho1

This Is What 4o Years of Reading Lovecraft Has Done To Me!

My CthulhuWho1 Flickr Collections have been neglected while I’ve been spending so much time here in the CthulhuWho1 Blog doing readings and other things; so I’m going to take a break from doing readings, so I can spend some time adding more photos and scans to the Flickr Collections, with updates of the activities being posted here.

I’m a very large guy, but it’s still hard to be in two places at the same time; so don’t get jealous of my non-blog activities.

Trust me, if you are a Lovecraftian, you will want to see what’s coming next…

H. P. Lovecraft’s The Hound from 1922.

First published in the February 1924 issue of Weird Tales.

Read here by William Hart from the text in the 1999 Penguin Classics edition of The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories edited by S. T. Joshi; which is the same as the version that is also available on hplovecraft.com.

Please Note: In my other readings, I have tried to stay 100% true to the text, and I have almost done so here; I just couldn’t resist taking a small measure of artistic license with this tale. Purists may notice it, then again, maybe not. Those unfamiliar with the tale, will of course not notice what I have done; so it won’t matter to them. For those who know the tale, and recognize what I have done that is different; please don’t describe it in any comments you might leave. Just say, you noticed something, and liked or disliked it. If there is enough dislike, I’ll post the pure version later.

Now, with my most heart-felt dedication of this tale in its current form to Wilum H. Pugmire, because he asked for it, I happily present you with my version of H. P. Lovecraft’s wonderfully ghoulish tale, The Hound!

H. P. Lovecraft’s – The Hound (1922) – read by William Hart

And for those who want to follow along with the text, here’s a PDF copy that matches my reading:

H. P. Lovecraft’s – The Hound (1922) – as read by William Hart on 25-Dec-2010

H. P. Lovecraft’s The Hound from 1922.

First published in the February 1924 issue of Weird Tales.

Is now available on the CthulhuWho1 YouTube Channel at:

http://www.youtube.com/user/CthulhuWho1

Please Note: In my other readings, I have tried to stay 100% true to the text, and I have almost done so here; I just couldn’t resist taking a small measure of artistic license with this tale. Purists may notice it, then again, maybe not. Those unfamiliar with the tale, will of course not notice what I have done; so it won’t matter to them. For those who know the tale, and recognize what I have done that is different; please don’t describe it in any comments you might leave. Just say, you noticed something, and liked or disliked it. If there is enough dislike, I’ll post the pure version later.