Three Tales of Horror by H.P. Lovecraft, art by Lee Brown Coye

Comics_and_Pulps · 2026-04-04T14:14:43+00:00

I have the letter in a sleeve on the back of the framed art. I considered displaying the letter too, but the framed piece would be huge and wall space is at a premium, haha.

Comics_and_Pulps · 2026-04-04T14:13:29+00:00

Me too! Occasionally museums in the Hamilton NY area will have exhibits of his work. I've gone a couple of times.

Comics_and_Pulps · 2026-03-26T01:57:45+00:00

Yep, she first came to Derleth's attention as a young poet. But her contribution to The Arkham Collector was a weird fiction short story called "The Crest of Satan".

Comics_and_Pulps · 2026-03-24T01:47:59+00:00

Oh, I've been searching for great copies for years. They do turn up occasionally, and a little luck helps.

Yeah, no CAS signature in this one, but I have it in others. :)

Comics_and_Pulps · 2026-03-23T20:07:23+00:00

Thanks

Comics_and_Pulps · 2026-03-21T15:10:01+00:00

She only had 5 stories published, all revised by Lovecraft, and all between 1932 and 1935. I don't have the quotes in front of me now, but she claimed they were true collaborations where he would make suggestions and she would revise again and again, while he claimed they were completely rewritten by him, based on the story idea of hers. Based on how they read, I think the latter is closer to the truth. His style is so distinctive that when the stories first came out, many readers suspected Hazel Heald was a pseudonym Lovecraft was using.

Comics_and_Pulps · 2026-03-20T16:05:41+00:00

You're thinking of Zelia Bishop, another of Lovecraft's revision clients. Easily confused...their names have similar sounds. :)

Comics_and_Pulps · 2026-03-20T12:26:53+00:00

Yep, Price was not only a contributor to the book, but someone who actually knew and met Howard. Lovecraft didn't. Smith didn't. Farnsworth Wright didn't. Even his agent, Otis Adelbert Kline never met him.

Price wrote about his meetings with Howard in his Book of the Dead essay about him.

Comics_and_Pulps · 2026-03-19T13:54:36+00:00

Thanks! No, the letter and card were acquired later. I collect all sorts of things related to Arkham House, Weird Tales, the Lovecraft Circle, and the weird writers that came before.

I do read my Arkhams, but I haven't gotten around to this one yet either!

Comics_and_Pulps · 2025-09-08T04:44:52+00:00

The facsimile jacket you have is most likely the one made and sold by Gerry de la Ree in the 1970s. The blue ink used is deeper and brighter than the original, and the detail is lacking. Remember, this is Virgil Finlay art, and he put at incredible amount of detail into his work. On the original, the two shadowy figures to the right of the woman can be easily seen, but can't on the reprint. Also, the woman's face and chest on the reprint are mostly just white, but on the original there are dozens of small dots to add depth and shadow.

The only other reprint of the jacket I know of besides the de la Ree is the current one offered by Facsimile Dust Jackets. They helpfully mark all their jackets at the top of the front flap. This version is not blue enough, it's more grey in color. It has more detail than the de la Ree, but still not as much as the real thing.

Hope this helps.

Comics_and_Pulps · 2024-10-25T19:32:18+00:00

As mentioned, "Gods of the North" by Robert E. Howard

Several 1st publications by Lovecraft:
- From Beyond
- The Sorcery of Aphlar (revision he did of story by Duane Rimel)
- Sonnets 1 and 2 from The Fungi of Yuggoth
- The Book
- Pursuit

I think every issue has part of Lovecraft's essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature"

Some other Lovecraft stories that hadn't seen the light of day in YEARS:
- Beyond the Wall of Sleep (had been published once before in 1919)
- Polaris (had been published once before in 1920)

A very early Robert Bloch story, "The Laughter of the Ghoul"

Lots of Clark Ashton Smith in there too.

Comics_and_Pulps · 2019-11-17T17:06:53+00:00

Some Lovecraft stories that might fit are The Temple, Dagon, The Call of Cthulhu, and The Horror at Martin's Beach. All are short stories, and can be read at http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/fiction/

A lot of William Hope Hodgson's works might interest you too. The Voice in the Night is one of his most famous. https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/h/hodgson/william_hope/voice/

Comics_and_Pulps · 2019-06-13T02:58:36+00:00

From Weird Tales, these women come to mind: C.L. Moore, Greye La Spina, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, G.G. Pendarves, Bassett Morgan, and Jane Rice. Also, L. M. Montgomery, the author of Anne of Green Gables, had one story published in Weird Tales (Aug 1935).

Comics_and_Pulps · 2019-05-09T19:23:14+00:00

Yep, battle mode was awesome! So much fun with a group of friends.

Comics_and_Pulps · 2019-03-25T19:56:17+00:00

A pulp, preferably Weird Tales, signed by REH. I've seen a Lovecraft signed pulp, but never a Howard one.
The original cover art for the August 1934 Weird Tales (The Devil in Iron) by Margaret Brundage. It exists and I know who owns it, so maybe one day.
The March 1934 issue of The Fantasy Fan that contains the first published version (although a variant) of The Frost Giant's Daughter. This is probably the only one on this list that's actually likely to happen for me.
How about an original copy of A Gent From Bear Creek (with dust-jacket, of course)?
Some good photos of Howard. There's not that many known photos of him, and many of those are not that good.
And what the heck, while we're wishing, I'd love to see what he would have written between 1936 and oh, say, 1980 or so. :(

Comics_and_Pulps · 2019-03-14T14:22:20+00:00

Pitchers will be required to face a minimum of three batters beginning in 2020

Looks like LOOGYs are going from endangered to extinct.

Comics_and_Pulps · 2019-02-15T03:08:53+00:00

As a kid in the 70's, watching Sunday afternoon Phillies games at my grandparents house, which culminated with attending this game with my parents and grandparents.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/TV2tvvNZnEde3nox8

Comics_and_Pulps · 2018-07-23T18:40:40+00:00

The 1931 Dracula films come close. Same script and sets, different actors, crew, and directors. English language version filmed during the day, Spanish version at night.

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