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The Devil's Crypt
- GenresHorror
30 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 1934
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E. Hoffmann Price
208 books18 followersOriginally intending to be a career soldier, Price graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point; he served in the American Expeditionary Force in World War I, and with the American military in Mexico and the Philippines. He was a champion fencer and boxer, an amateur Orientalist, and a student of the Arabic language; science-fiction author Jack Williamson, in his 1984 autobiography Wonder's Child, called E. Hoffmann Price a "real live soldier of fortune."
In his literary career, Hoffmann Price produced fiction for a wide range of publications, from Argosy to Terror Tales, from Speed Detective to Spicy Mystery Stories. Yet he was most readily identified as a Weird Tales writer, one of the group who wrote regularly for editor Farnsworth Wright, a group that included Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and Clark Ashton Smith. Price published 24 solo stories in "the Unique Magazine" between 1925 and 1950, plus three collaborations with Otis Adelbert Kline, and his works with Lovecraft.
In his literary career, Hoffmann Price produced fiction for a wide range of publications, from Argosy to Terror Tales, from Speed Detective to Spicy Mystery Stories. Yet he was most readily identified as a Weird Tales writer, one of the group who wrote regularly for editor Farnsworth Wright, a group that included Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and Clark Ashton Smith. Price published 24 solo stories in "the Unique Magazine" between 1925 and 1950, plus three collaborations with Otis Adelbert Kline, and his works with Lovecraft.
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March 18, 2018
A fairly conventional 1934 pulp story from E. Hoffmann Price, perhaps only known today to most as a one-time collaborator on 'Through the Gates of the Silver Key' with Lovecraft, although his fantasy writing career took a another positive turn relatively late in life.
It is not remarkable but an example of its type and it reminds one of what would later come with Dennis Wheatley's stories of satanism, women in peril and brave and noble upper class heroes but with a stronger whiff of actual ancient evil and the potential reality of dark magic.
September 7, 2015
Odd little occult/fantasy story from the January 1934 issue of _Strange Detective Stories_. It qualifies for 'strange' easily enough; I'm less sure about the 'detective' part.
It does start out like a simple detective story: girl wanders away from party and is found dead not too far away. Then some spooky footprints are found and I'm thinking there will be a perfectly rational explanation. Instead I'm totally surprised when the monsters and magic turn out to be real.
A fun little read.
It does start out like a simple detective story: girl wanders away from party and is found dead not too far away. Then some spooky footprints are found and I'm thinking there will be a perfectly rational explanation. Instead I'm totally surprised when the monsters and magic turn out to be real.
A fun little read.
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