Fritz Leiber Audio Files Part 3: An Hour at Fantasy Faire 7 August 13, 1977

Posted on October 7, 2010 by cthulhuwho1

Saturday, August 13, 1977, My wife Jean and I had the great good fortune of being in the audience when Fritz Leiber spoke of many things, including his writing career, Lovecraft, characters, and took several questions too for nearly an hour (from 12:30 pm to 1:25 pm) with a room full of his fans attending Fantasy Faire 7 in the Pasadena Hilton Hotel, in Pasadena, California. He was introduced by Walt Daugherty; and even had Forry Ackerman sitting in the audience.

I was well prepared, and had my tape recorder and microphones ready; so I was able to capture the following recording:

NOTE: If you do a normal click on the MP3 file link in this post, WordPress will play it for you.

If you’d like to download and save the file for yourself, and you are using a PC, right-click, to bring up the right-click menu and use the “Save Link As” function to save the MP3 file to your hard drive.

If you’d like to download and save the file for yourself, and you are using a Mac, I believe that would be ctrl + Click to bring up the right click menu, and use the “Download Linked File” function to save the MP3 file to your hard drive. I don’t own a Mac so please correct me if I am wrong!

Fritz Leiber at Fantasy Faire 7 1977 (Aug 13) Pasadena Hilton Hotel California

There are many new (248!) Fritz Leiber related images in the newly opened Fritz Leiber CthulhuWho1 Flickr Collection at:http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157625066410282/

Follow on to the next post and you’ll hear a couple of comments from Fritz Leiber at the third World Fantasy Convention in October 1977…

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Fritz Leiber Audio Files Part 2: Reading from Our Lady of Darkness on Hour 25 SF Radio 25-February-1977

Posted on October 7, 2010 by cthulhuwho1

On Friday, the 25th. of February, 1977, Fritz Leiber was in the Los Angeles area preparing for a book-signing/autograph party the next afternoon at A Change of Hobbit SF Book Store in Westwood.  As many of the authors of that time also did, he stopped in at radio station KPFK in North Hollywood to be interviewed, and to do a reading, on the Hour 25 Science Fiction Radio Program, hosted by Mike Hodel, and his co-host Mitchell Harding.

The interview has been covered in the previous post, but I was also lucky enough to catch the reading, and to tape it also; and the audio tapes have survived over 33 years in storage to become the digital audio file you are about to enjoy.

NOTE: If you do a normal click on the MP3 file link in this post, WordPress will play it for you.

If you’d like to download and save the file for yourself, and you are using a PC, right-click, to bring up the right-click menu and use the “Save Link As” function to save the MP3 file to your hard drive.

If you’d like to download and save the file for yourself, and you are using a Mac, I believe that would be ctrl + Click to bring up the right click menu, and use the “Download Linked File” function to save the MP3 file to your hard drive. I don’t own a Mac so please correct me if I am wrong!

Fritz Leiber Reading from Our Lady of Darkness on the Hour 25 SF Radio 25-Feb-1977

There are many (248!) Fritz Leiber related images in the newly opened Fritz Leiber CthulhuWho1 Flickr Collection (including a couple A Change of Hobbit photos on 26-February-1977 when Fritz was there) at:http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157625066410282/

Follow on to the next post, and you’ll be able to spend about an hour with Fritz Leiber at Fantasy Faire 7 in Pasadena in 1977…

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Fritz Leiber Audio Files Part 1: Being Interviewed on Hour 25 SF Radio 25-Feb-1977

Posted on October 7, 2010 by cthulhuwho1

On Friday, the 25th. of February, 1977, Fritz Leiber was in the Los Angeles area preparing for a book-signing/autograph party the next afternoon at A Change of Hobbit SF Book Store in Westwood. As many of the authors of that time also did, he stopped in at radio station KPFK in North Hollywood to be interviewed, and to do a reading on the Hour 25 Science Fiction Radio Program, hosted by Mike Hodel, and his co-host Mitchell Harding.

I was lucky enough to catch the interview and reading, and to tape it also; and the audio tapes have survived over 33 years in storage to become the digital audio files you are about to enjoy.

NOTE: If you do a normal click on the MP3 file links in this post, WordPress will play them for you.

If you’d like to download and save the files for yourself, and you are using a PC, right-click, to bring up the right-click menu and use the “Save Link As” function to save the MP3 files to your hard drive.

If you’d like to download and save the files for yourself, and you are using a Mac, I believe that would be Ctrl + Click to bring up the right click menu, and use the “Download Linked File” function to save the MP3 files to your hard drive. I don’t own a Mac so please correct me if I am wrong!

Fritz Leiber on Hour 25 SF Radio 25-Feb-1977 Part1 North Hollywood California

Fritz Leiber on Hour 25 SF Radio 25-Feb-1977 Part2 North Hollywood California

There are many (248!) Fritz Leiber related images in the newly opened Fritz Leiber CthulhuWho1 Flickr Collection (including a couple A Change of Hobbit photos on 26-February-1977 when Fritz was there) at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157625066410282/

The next post is also part of Fritz Leiber’s appearance on Hour 25, but since it is a reading, it deserved its own post.

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Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch and Others Discussing H. P. Lovecraft in 1963 – A Complete PDF File, with JPG’s Available Too!

Posted on October 7, 2010 by cthulhuwho1

Lovecraft: A Symposium (per the cover), or H. P. Lovecraft: A Symposium (per the title page), or Symposium On H. P. Lovecraft (per the first transcript page) was transcribed from the recording of the panel discussion on H.P. Lovecraft at the 24-October-1963 Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society meeting.

The panelists were: Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Sam Russell, Arthur Jean Cox, and Leland Sapiro; and annotations to the transcription were provided by August Derleth.

As with other hard-to-find documents in my collection, I am providing a PDF file copy of this booklet here, and much higher resolution JPG individual images in both the Fritz Leiber CthulhuWho1 Flickr Collection (along with 212 more Fritz Leiber related images) at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157625066410282/ , and in the CthulhuWho1 Robert Bloch Flickr collection (along with 161 more Robert Bloch related images) at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157624976191780/

I believe this nearly 47 year-old booklet is now well into the public domain; and I will remove it if a current copyright holder contacts me with a request to do so.

I am providing these scans freely from my collection as a tribute to Fritz Leiber and Robert Bloch.

Here’s the complete Symposium in PDF format:

Lovecraft_ A Symposium 24-October-1963 Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, and Others

Please let me know in feedback if there is an interest in more documents and images like this.

Posted in Documents, Flickr Updates, Fritz Leiber, H. P. Lovecraft, H. P. Lovecraft Symposium, The, PDF Files, Robert Bloch, Scans | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

The Fanscient No.8 Summer 1949 – The Robert Bloch Issue – A Complete PDF File with JPG’s Available Too!

Posted on October 7, 2010 by cthulhuwho1

Most of us weren’t around in 1949, so I’m assuming there aren’t too many copies of The Fanscient No.8, the Summer 1949 issue that focused on Robert Bloch in its “Author, Author” column floating around; so I’m going to share my copy, which I believe is now well into the public domain; I will remove it if a current copyright holder contacts me with a request to do so. I am providing these scans freely from my collection as a tribute to Robert Bloch.

I found this buried little gem in my collection while looking for Robert Bloch and Fritz Leiber material for this blog, and also for my Flickr collections.

The pages are going very brown due to the high acid content of the paper, the lack of protective packaging, and the climate conditions where I live; yet the paper was still flexible enough that I was willing to gently flatten the issue on my scanner.

I’m providing the complete issue here in a pdf format; but you can also download the much higher resolution individual pages (and 165 more Robert Bloch related images) in jpg format from the CthulhuWho1 Robert Bloch Flickr collection at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157624976191780/

Here’s the promised pdf file of The Fanscient:

The Fanscient No.8 Summer 1949 (The Robert Bloch Issue)

If I get enough positive feedback on this and some of the other documents I’m posting, I’ll see what other rare gems I can provide.

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Fungi from Yuggoth Wav Format Files for Burning High-Quality CDs

Posted on September 19, 2010 by cthulhuwho1

MrWilum (Wilum Pugmire, a Lovecraftian author and friend of many years), over on YouTube, has brought up the topic of my reading of the Fungi from Yuggoth sonnets being made available on CD.

I’m not prepared to go into CD production, but I am willing to post the original wav files here for those who would like to use them to burn their own high-quality CDs.

I have burned my own; and I admit, they do sound better than the mp3 files. Both formats are good, but the CDs made from the wav files have the edge.

Feel free to use the files below to make your own CDs for fun or profit; but please leave my opening and closing credit files on those copies you give away or sell.

I’m including the paper CD template, which uses the graphic shown above, in Microsoft Word doc format for printing of a paper CD case that is very easy to fold into a professional looking CD.

Fungi from Yuggoth Basic CD Case Template

How to Make a Paper CD Case for Fungi from Yuggoth

And I am once again including the complete Fungi From Yuggoth text in a pdf file for those who might want the reference pages:
H. P. Lovecraft’s Fungi from Yuggoth

NOTE: If you do a normal click on the WAV file links in this post, WordPress will play them for you.

If you’d like to download and save the files for yourself, and you are using a PC, right-click, to bring up the right-click menu and use the “Save Link As” function to save the WAV files to your hard drive.

If you’d like to download and save the files for yourself, and you are using a Mac, I believe that would be Ctrl + Click to bring up the right click menu, and use the “Download Linked File” function to save the WAV files to your hard drive. I don’t own a Mac so please correct me if I am wrong!

00 Fungi from Yuggoth – Opening Credits – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

01 Fungi from Yuggoth – The Book – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

02 Fungi from Yuggoth – Pursuit – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

03 Fungi from Yuggoth – The Key – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

04 Fungi from Yuggoth – Recognition – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

05 Fungi from Yuggoth – Homecoming – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

06 Fungi from Yuggoth – The Lamp – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

07 Fungi from Yuggoth – Zaman’s Hill – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

08 Fungi from Yuggoth – The Port – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

09 Fungi from Yuggoth – The Courtyard – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

10 Fungi from Yuggoth – The Pigeon-Flyers – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

11 Fungi from Yuggoth – The Well – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

12 Fungi from Yuggoth – The Howler – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

13 Fungi from Yuggoth – Hesperia – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

14 Fungi from Yuggoth – Star-Winds – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

15 Fungi from Yuggoth – Antarktos – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

16 Fungi from Yuggoth – The Window – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

17 Fungi from Yuggoth – A Memory – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

18 Fungi from Yuggoth – The Gardens of Yin – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

19 Fungi from Yuggoth – The Bells – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

20 Fungi from Yuggoth – Night-Gaunts – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

21 Fungi from Yuggoth – Nyarlathotep – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

22 Fungi from Yuggoth – Azathoth – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

23 Fungi from Yuggoth – Mirage – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

24 Fungi from Yuggoth – The Canal – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

25 Fungi from Yuggoth – St. Toad’s – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

26 Fungi from Yuggoth – The Familiars – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

27 Fungi from Yuggoth – The Elder Pharos – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

28 Fungi from Yuggoth – Expectancy – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

29 Fungi from Yuggoth – Nostalgia – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

30 Fungi from Yuggoth – Background – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

31 Fungi from Yuggoth – The Dweller – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

32 Fungi from Yuggoth – Alienation – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

33 Fungi from Yuggoth – Harbor Whistles – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

34 Fungi from Yuggoth – Recapture – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

35 Fungi from Yuggoth – Evening Star – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

36 Fungi from Yuggoth – Continuity – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

37 Fungi from Yuggoth – Closing Credits – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

Fungi from Yuggoth – Complete – H. P. Lovecraft read by William Hart

Please let me know what you think of your CD versus your MP3 files after you have compared them.

By the way, while listening to my own readings, while sitting in my car, I’ve been struck by two things. These sonnets need to be read aloud to be truly appreciated, and the fact that I have a very hard time believing that all but one of these sonnets were written in late December 1929 through early January 1930; with “Recapture” being written in mid-November 1929. Ask yourself when you listen to them. Do these dreams, thoughts, ideas, words and themes sound over eighty years old to you? I’ll wager they don’t.

Will Hart
aka CthulhuWho1

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Robert Bloch Speaks of Lovecraft and More from the Grave

Posted on September 18, 2010 by cthulhuwho1

If you are a fan of Robert Bloch, but you didn’t get to attend his induction into the Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Hall of Fame on 05-December-1976, then this blog is for you.

If you are a fan of Robert Bloch, but you didn’t get to attend the Dark Fantasy Panel of the 3rd. World Fantasy Convention in the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles October 28-30, 1977, then this blog is for you.

And, if you are a fan of Robert Bloch, but you missed his guest appearance on the Hour 25 Science Fiction radio program on Friday, 15-September, 1978; where he and Walt Daugherty were promoting the upcoming 1978 Fantasy Faire, then this blog is definitely for you!

And if you are looking for Robert Bloch Postcards, Photos, and More; take a quick run over to the newly added set of Robert Bloch materials on the CthulhuWho1 Flickr page at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157624976191780/

Please note, there will be a couple of bonus pdf files somewhere down in this blog, so keep your eyes open!

NOTE: If you do a normal click on the MP3 file links in this post, WordPress will play them for you.

If you’d like to download and save the files for yourself, and you are using a PC, right-click, to bring up the right-click menu and use the “Save Link As” function to save the MP3 files to your hard drive.

If you’d like to download and save the files for yourself, and you are using a Mac, I believe that would be Ctrl + Click to bring up the right click menu, and use the “Download Linked File” function to save the MP3 files to your hard drive.  I don’t own a Mac so please correct me if I am wrong!

The 1st. Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Awards Luncheon

Let’s begin with the oldest, and lowest quality recordings; from the 1st. Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Awards Luncheon, held 05-December-1976, in the Wilshire Hyatt House Hotel in Hollywood, California.

Pictures of this event can be found in the Robert Bloch set of the CthulhuWho1 Flickr Collection at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157624976191780/

The quality is low, due to the recording being done from the back of the room with a hand-held microphone; but this can be followed quite easily by reading the transcript in Eldritch Leanings Issue #6 starting on Page 5 at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157624536172013/with/4864278437/

01 SF, Horror and Fantasy Hall of Fame Awards Luncheon 5-Dec-76 Bloch Induction Segment Wilshire Hyatt House Hotel

And if you are a glutton for audio punishment, here’s a very noisy clip of Robert Bloch with several fans (including Yours Truly) in a hallway just before the Hall of Fame Awards luncheon.

02 SF, Horror and Fantasy Hall of Fame Awards Luncheon 5-Dec-76 Bloch with Fans in Hallway Before Awards Wilshire Hyatt House Hotel

The Third World Fantasy Convention in Los Angeles, October 1977

Pictures of this event can also be found in the Robert Bloch set of the CthulhuWho1 Flickr Collection at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157624976191780/

The tapes are in sad shape, and the sound varies from poor to great, but the following six mp3 files are the best clips that could be pulled from Robert Bloch’s comments during the Dark Fantasy Panel in the Renaissance Room of the Biltmore Hotel, on Saturday the 29th. of October, 1977, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m..:

01 Robert Bloch World Fantasy Con III Dark Fantasy Panel Clips Part1 29-Oct-1977 2.30-4.00pm Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles Renaissance Room

02 Robert Bloch World Fantasy Con III Dark Fantasy Panel Clips Part2 29-Oct-1977 2.30-4.00pm Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles Renaissance Room

03 Robert Bloch World Fantasy Con III Dark Fantasy Panel Clips Part3 29-Oct-1977 2.30-4.00pm Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles Renaissance Room

04 Robert Bloch World Fantasy Con III Dark Fantasy Panel Clips Part4 29-Oct-1977 2.30-4.00pm Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles Renaissance Room

05 Robert Bloch World Fantasy Con III Dark Fantasy Panel Clips Part5 29-Oct-1977 2.30-4.00pm Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles Renaissance Room

06 Robert Bloch World Fantasy Con III Dark Fantasy Panel Clips Part6 29-Oct-1977 2.30-4.00pm Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles Renaissance Room

Robert Bloch on the Hour 25 Science Fiction Radio Program
15-September-1978
Promoting His Upcoming Fantasy Faire Guest of Honor Appearance
While being Interviewed by Mike Hodel (above right)
and Mitchell Harding with Walt Daugherty Giving Convention Details

Scans of the 1978 Fantasy Faire Program Booklet, with a tribute to Robert Bloch have also been added to the Robert Bloch set of the CthulhuWho1 Flickr Collection at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/sets/72157624976191780/

First the mono version of the Robert Bloch and Walt Daugherty portion of the Hour 25 broadcast (which has Robert Bloch coming out of both speakers, instead of just being on the right):

01 Robert Bloch on Hour 25 SF Radio 15-Sep-1978 Part 1 with Walt Daugherty

02 Robert Bloch on Hour 25 SF Radio 15-Sep-1978 Part 2 with Walt Daugherty

03 Robert Bloch on Hour 25 SF Radio 15-Sep-1978 Part 3 with Walt Daugherty

Second, the full stereo version of the Robert Bloch and Walt Daugherty segment for comparison:

04 Robert Bloch on Hour 25 SF Radio 15-Sep-1978 Part 1 with Walt Daugherty Stereo

05 Robert Bloch on Hour 25 SF Radio 15-Sep-1978 Part 2 with Walt Daugherty Stereo

06 Robert Bloch on Hour 25 SF Radio 15-Sep-1978 Part 3 with Walt Daugherty Stereo

And last but not least from the Hour 25 broadcast, the show’s full opening in stereo, including Terry Hodel’s Science Fiction Calendar, and general chatting:

07 Robert Bloch on Hour 25 SF Radio 15-Sep-1978 Part 1 with Walt Daugherty in Stereo with Opening of Show

I’ve recently noticed that all of the main Hour 25 people that were there when I was recording the broadcasts, as well as most of the guests I was interested in, have died. Mike and Terry Hodel, Mitch Harding, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, etc., are all gone; and I wanted to share what I captured before I’m gone too. I hope somebody appreciates this stuff in the future!

The Robert Bloch Toastmaster Press Release for the 1984 World Science Fiction Convention

I discovered I have a complete press kit for the 1984 World Con, which includes the following Press Release:

Toastmaster Robert Bloch Press Release

Robert Bloch Donated Materials at The American Heritage Center

The American Heritage Center (AHC) is the University of Wyoming’s (UW) repository of manuscripts collections, rare books, and the university archives.
http://ahc.uwyo.edu/

While searching for information on Diana Thatcher (Robert Bloch’s most devoted fan), I found the following American Heritage Center documents related to Robert Bloch which mentioned her name, as well as my own fanzine, Eldritch Leanings:

2256_inventory_1

2256_inventory_2

2256_inventory_3

2256_inventory_4

authors

Check Out The Unofficial Robert Bloch Website

I really enjoyed finding the Robert Bloch Biography at:
http://mgpfeff.home.sprynet.com/bio-01.html
You will too!

Final Thoughts on This Current Blog

Pulling the Robert Bloch material together for this blog, and for the CthulhuWho1 Flickr page has taken far more time and effort than I expected; but it has gotten me excited about what I’ll be able to post next for Fritz Leiber! Because I have hours of Fritz Leiber recordings already ready to go…

If you are a Fritz Leiber fan, and you enjoyed hearing his voice in the H. P. Lovecraft panel recordings, which have already been posted here, you’ll soon be in for a multi-format treat of photos, letters, and hours of audio recordings.

Keep checking in here, or at the CthulhuWho1 Flickr Collections, or in the Lovecraft newsgroups, or send an email note saying you’d like to be added to the CthulhuWho1 notification list to willhart-at-roadrunner-dot-com.

Bonus File 1
Bonus File 2

Posted in Audio, Dark Fantasy Panel, The, Documents, Flickr Updates, H. P. Lovecraft, Hour 25 SF Radio, Mike Hodel, MP3 Files, PDF Files, Robert Bloch, Science Fiction, Horror, and Fantasy Hall of Fame, The, Walt Daugherty, World Fantasy Convention III | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 13 Comments

Four More Issues of Eldritch Leanings Have Been Found!

Posted on September 9, 2010 by cthulhuwho1

While digging through many boxes of Lovecraft related publications, during a search for convention related materials for data to accompany some of the audio files I’ll soon be uploading here, I found a box containing the final sets of Esoteric Order of Dagon (E.O.D.) (Amateur Press Association) mailings that I had received as a member in the late 70’s and early 80’s.

Within these mailings were the final four mimeographed issues I published before my membership lapsed due to inactivity on my part. Mailing 38, the April-May 1982 Roodmas mailing was the last one I ever received.

These four issues have now been added to the Eldritch Leanings Collection of the CthulhuWho1 Flickr page at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/collections/72157624539455829/

The four issues mostly contain short book reviews and ramblings; with the nostalgic item for me being the E. Hoffmann Price Petition in issue 16 that I created to try to get a publisher interested in, “Friends of Yesteryear: Fictioneers & Others.”

E. Hoffmann Price’s book was eventually published by Arkham House in 2001, under the title, “Book of the Dead, Friends of Yesteryear: Fictioneers & Others;” roughly thirteen years after his death.

Although my petition, which was used to collect signatures on at least two continents, and at numerous conventions, may have had nothing to do with the actual publication of the book so many years later, I’m still very glad to have made the effort when I did.

Now that the final issues of Eldritch Leanings have been posted to Flickr, I can get back to the audio-visual work I’m doing for those interested in Robert Bloch and Lovecraft… Coming soon!

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At Long Last The August Issue of Providence Monthly Has Arrived!

Posted on September 4, 2010 by cthulhuwho1

I began to think I’d never see a copy, but after many phone calls and emails, my “contributor’s” copy arrived today, 03-September-2010.

If you haven’t found a copy for yourself yet, there were 18,000 copies printed, so you should be able to find one if you’d like to add this to your collection.

These are very large images in their full size (10″ X 13.5″, scanned at 600 d.p.i.) so downloads may take time.

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On 06-July-2010, I sent the following message out to newspapers and magazines across the country:

Greetings from Fullerton, California!
　
Every news program, publication, or service, needs current cultural, geographical, historical, human-interest, and travel stories; and I’m hoping you will consider doing a piece in August on H.P. Lovecraft and his beloved home-city of Providence, Rhode Island.
　
August 20, 2010, will mark the 120th. anniversary of the birth of H.P. Lovecraft in Providence, Rhode Island.
　
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was one of the most influential cosmic horror writers of the 20th century. And is considered by many to be the father of modern horror.
　
His influence can still be seen in movies and television, games, music, art, comics, plays, podcasts, radio dramatizations; and even plush Cthulhu dolls based upon his most famous creation. His works are still affecting modern writers, i.e., Stephen King, film makers, i.e. John Carpenter, Stuart Gordon, and Guillermo del Toro, and the gaming industry with all of its Call of Cthulhu related role playing games. And many of his fictional creations, e.g., Arkham, Miskatonic University, Cthulhu, the Necronomicon of the Mad Arab Abdul Alhazred, and Innsmouth often make appearances in literature and films.
　
Their are articles, bibliographies, biographies, college courses, conventions, documentaries, events, film companies, film festivals, library collections, license plates, newsgroups, periodicals, radio broadcasts, tours, and websites dedicated to him.
　
While Lovecraft is best known for his weird-fiction, he also wrote on Philosophy, Science, and Travel, contributed Reviews and Literary Criticism, was very active in Amateur Journalism, and most of all, was a voluminous letter-writer; with an estimated 100,000 plus (sometimes 70 pages and longer) letters written in his lifetime.
　
The bulk of his fiction and poetry was focused on New England in general; but his one true love was the city of Providence, Rhode Island. His love for the city of his birth was so great, that his headstone says, “I Am Providence.”
　
Brown University in Providence maintains the single largest collection of original and Lovecraft related materials in the Special Collections section of the John Hay Library.
　
Websites that I can recommend for anyone considering writing a piece on Lovecraft and Providence in no particular order include:
　
The H.P. Lovecraft entry at Wikipedia.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovecraft
　
The H.P. Lovecraft Archive
http://www.hplovecraft.com/
　
Lovecraft’s College Hill

Click to access walktour.pdf

　
The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast
http://www.hppodcraft.com/
　
The H. P. Lovecraft – Summary Bibliography
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?H._P._Lovecraft
　
H.P. Lovecraft by S.T. Joshi (The foremost Lovecraft scholar)
http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/lovecraft.html
　
The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival
http://www.hplfilmfestival.com/
　
The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society
http://www.cthulhulives.org/toc.html
　
Unfilmable: Cosmic Horror Cinema
http://unfilmable.blogspot.com/
　
H.P. Lovecraft on IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0522454/
　
A Short Tour of Lovecraftian New England
http://cthulhufiles.com/newengl.htm
　
Lovecraftian Sites in New England
http://www.hplovecraft.com/creation/sites/
　
And my own offering of 900 plus full-size free images of Lovecraft’s Providence at the time of his Centennial in 1990 (feel free to use these for any reason, at any time)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/collections/
　
Please use any of the above information that helps you; and contact me if you have any questions or comments.
　
Thank you for taking the time to look this over!
　
Will Hart
(William E. Hart)
　
ps
Yes, I have had CTHULHU license plates in California for thirty years.
Cthulhu was the most famous creature/being in the fiction of
H.P. Lovecraft.

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And on July 7th., I received the following letter from Providence Monthly, which lead to the above issue:

Will,

We received your email about the Lovecraft anniversary, and we think it’s a great fit for the back page (“The Last Detail”) of our August issue. Do you have a hi-res photo of Lovecraft’s grave stone that you can send me? (Vertical orientation would be best.) We will, as you note on your Flickr page, credit you and send you a copy of the magazine.

Thank you,
John

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And photo L_08 from http://www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/3809326421/in/set-72157624114618268/ became the chosen photo for the piece.

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An Apology: The ATMOM Script Post Has Been Removed at the Request of the Producer

Posted on September 2, 2010 by cthulhuwho1

I have received a message this morning informing me of the need to remove the “At the Mountains of Madness” script file immediately to avoid a DMCA notice for linking to copyrighted material.

I have complied as soon as I received the message as I had stated I would.

I do apologize to those who came here wanting to look at the script, which has now been identified as something more than just a fan-fake; and has been removed for legal reasons.

I encourage everyone to support the filmmakers in their efforts to get this film made, promoted, and seen by as many people as possible; and my efforts have strictly been intended to help build excitement towards those goals.

Everyone has been talking about the possibility of Guillermo del Toro making his 3D film version of H. P. Lovecraft’s, “At the Mountains of Madness”, with the financial backing of James Cameron and Universal Studios.

And now, James Cameron, in an exclusive August 16th. interview on Shock Till You Drop, has confirmed the project as being a done deal, that doesn’t have 100% of the details worked out just yet:
http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=16204

Will Hart
aka CthulhuWho1

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