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“Marblehead” by Richard A. Lupoff was first published as a shortened version under the title of “Lovecraft’s Book”. I suppose that “Lovecraft’s Book” was more focused on politics, while “Marblehead” also includes a lot of stuff about Lovecraft’s life in 1927. And I do mean “a lot” - this is a very granular book, with a lot of descriptions of everyday actions. As a Lovecraft fan I enjoyed it, but I felt that the pacing was very slow and it suffered too much from “nothing is happening” syndrome of...
I admit to being rather bamboozled when reading this, which must have been a long time ago - at first I thought it was all true. By the end of course, once the adventure really gets going, I realised that it wasn't, but that didn't detract from the fun of it. If after reading this you're in the mood for more fictional adventures of Lovecraft, you could try Robert Silverberg's To the Land of the Living, in which he plays a small but significant role.
A fascinating fictional adventure featuring some real characters. Some of the racist opinions are a bit jarring but emblematic of the time.
Howard Philips Lovecraft, además de uno de los mayores nombres de la literatura de terror, era un xenofobo convencido. Esto es un hecho innegable: cualquiera que sepa algo de su vida puede constatarlo —el famoso episodio de su visita a Nueva York, donde la visión de inmigrantes de variadas nacionalidades le asqueó profundamente— e incluso resulta evidente en su obra, donde a menudo insiste en temas de raza y mestizaje.Sigue leyendo...
With the exception of Bram Stoker's The Lair of the White Worm, this is the strangest book I've ever read. A fictional (although not completely?) account of horror/fantasy writer HP Lovecraft and his attempt to get a book of his stories published in return for writing a book of fascist propaganda for the Nazi movement in America.The book is strange for many reasons. One being that the book really isn't about Lovecraft at all, but about the rise of the far right in the States between the wars. Lo...
When Lovecraft first visited New York City, he was disgusted by the influx of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe. Despite his dislike of Jews, Lovecraft ended up marrying one. Lovecraft's wife Sonia Greene stated of her husband's (after they divorced) response to the inhabitants of the city, "Whenever we found ourselves in the racially mixed crowds which characterize New York, Howard would become livid with rage. He seemed almost to lose his mind." Adolf Hitler also responded in a simi
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Sometimes it's better not to know what happens behind the curtain. Do you really want to know that the Great and Glorious Oz frequently passed out in their own vomit after a weekend bender? Same reason not to like this book. Most H.P. Lovecraft fans know that he had issues with women, and is to put it kindly more than a little racist. However trying to read a book that glories in his faults was a tedious exercise. This book tends to focus on the warts of the man rather than the mind of the autho...
