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"I put in all that artificial mythology myself — since Smith & Howard & I like to have our synthetic demons popularized by wide use. Such use tends to give them a convincing air of actual mythological standing. I've also put Yog-Sothoth & Tsathoggua in yarns ghost written for Adolphe de Castro, & have encouraged other writers (Derleth, Long, Bloch, Wandrei, &c.) to use them." —HPL to Emil Petaja: 31 May 1935
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"Lovecraft has become, paradoxically, a minor figure in the area of Cthulhu Mythos fiction." —Stefan Dziemianowicz, "Divers Hands," Crypt of Cthulhu No. 80 (Eastertide 1992)
— Oct 20, 2014 09:47AM
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Derleth was a pulp-hound who knew what sold, and his 'codification' of the mythos was appropriate to the times, a bridge to SF in the era of rocket ships, ray guns, and beautiful space heroines. —John D Haefele
— Oct 19, 2014 11:41AM
Ross Lockhart
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"There is a transition whereby the feared entities become the fearing; the author shows us horrors and then pulls back the curtain a little farther, letting us glimpse the horrors of which even the horrors are afraid!" —Fritz Leiber, "A Literary Copernicus" (1949)
— Oct 19, 2014 11:24AM
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"Yes, indeed – voodoo, black magic, the history of the witch-cult, & everything of that sort is surely of the keenest interest to me. I continually borrow the standard classics on this subject…" —HPL to Wooley, 26 Jan 1935
— Oct 17, 2014 02:35PM
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"The idea of the black magic exist[s] in secret today, or that hellish antique rites still survive in obscurity, is one that I have used & shall use again. […] Do you know any good works on magic & dark mysteries which might furnish fitting ideas & formulae?" —HPL to CAS: Oct 9, 1925
— Oct 17, 2014 02:32PM
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"The years following Lovecraft's death […] inaugurated an era in which Cthulhu and his cosmic cohorts were scrutinized, analyzed, categorized, systematized, bent, folded, stapled—and mutilated." —James Turner, "Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!", Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
— Oct 15, 2014 04:53PM
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"We keep forgetting that Lovecraft began 'the Mythos' in a spirit of fun. Even the slight coherence he gave it toward the end of his life seemed ... a way of thanking others for contributing to it." —Stefan Dziemianowicz, letter to Crypt of Cthulhu: 1986
— Oct 08, 2014 09:01AM
Ross Lockhart
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"[Lovecraft] created a cult of readers who could fill in the gaps of suggestion because they had followed him through the earlier tales. Their minds were tuned to the same key; their imaginations had been trained to venture in the same directions. The details they filled in were at least close to those Lovecraft himself would have imagined...." --P. Schuyler Miller, "Let's All Jump on H.P.L.", 1945
— Oct 05, 2014 10:06PM
