One of the things he also work as was as a "Manuscript Fixer." He would take
a writers manuscript and rework it so that it would be more likely to be
accepted by editors. Several years ago I've read a couple of pieces where he
did that, and they are much better than his typical works.

larry

-----Original Message-----
From: John Stanley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 10:36 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: For those in the Lovecraftian "know"

DRE, here you go.


http://www.hplovecraft.com/ <http://www.hplovecraft.com/>


The longest work of his is called "At the Mountains of Madness", which is
currently under production as a feature film. Most of his stuff appeared in
Weird Tales and a few other pulp magazines from the 30's and on. He
published no novels, that I am aware of. He died pretty young, pretty much
convinced that he was not a success.


He is widely regarded as the father of modern horror fiction. At least I
have heard as much from the likes of Stephen King, and Dean Koontz.
Obviously this is a subjective issue.


He is also criticized for somewhat racist views expressed in alot of his
works.


Most of his works ooze with a dark opressive atmosphere that creates the
impression that we are pretty much specks of dust in the grand scheme of
things.


Hope this helps.


john

-----Original Message-----
From: Andre Turrettini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 10:28 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: For those in the Lovecraftian "know"

I'm getting a bit curious about this lovecraft author.   Anybody can
recomend a good representative book that he wrote for me to read? DRE

-----Original Message-----
From: John Stanley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 5:50 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: For those in the Lovecraftian "know"

http://www.dangermouse.net/cgi-bin/comic.pl?comic=333
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