My fellow Lovecraft fans, I think that this piece in the Los Angeles Review of Books may be of interest to you! It is a fine essay on Lovecraft's work (posing as a book review).
As an aside, I thought that I would note that I agree with the author that "Clark Ashton Smith was a better stylist" than HPL. It is regrettable that more of CAS's work is not available in published form today. Fortunately, most of his work is available online at 'The Eldritch Dark'.
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I really like his idea that Lovecraft was the first "open-source fiction" writer.
ReplyDeleteAgreed!
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