Luís’s Reviews > I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 2 > Status Update
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Lovecraft did not mention the names of any of the attackers. Still he knew that one of Bradofsky's chief opponents was Ralph W. Babcock an otherwise distinguished amateur who had somehow developed a furious hostility toward the NAPA president. In a letter to Barlow Lovecraft noted wryly that his salvo might well "arouse some squawking & feather-ruffling in the roosts of Great Neck, L.I., a direct reference to Babcock
— Jan 06, 2025 01:34PM
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(...) But both his supporters and his detractors would do well to examine the facts about his life and his work and the perspective from which they make their own pronouncements and evaluations of his character. He was human like any of us - neither a lunatic nor a superman. He had his share of flaws and virtues. (...)
— Jan 08, 2025 01:34PM
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On March 13, Harry Brobst and his wife visited Lovecraft in the hospital. Brobst asked Lovecraft how he felt; Lovecraft responded, "Sometimes the pain is unbearable." Brobst, in part, told Lovecraft to remember the ancient philosophers. Lovecraft smiled - the only response Brobst received.
— Jan 07, 2025 02:45PM
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Lovecraft's final years were characterized both by much hardship (painful rejections of his best tales and concomitant depression over the merit of his work, increasing poverty, and, toward the very end, the onset of his terminal illness) and by moments of joy (travels all along the eastern seaboard; the intellectual stimulus of correspondence with a variety of distinctive colleagues; (....)
— Jan 05, 2025 12:31PM
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(...) Yet, in many ways, it is the culmination of his fictional career and by no means an unfitting capstone to a twenty-year attempt to capture the sense of wonder and awe he felt at the boundless reaches of space and time. Although Lovecraft would write one more original tale and work on several additional revisions and collaborations with colleagues, his life as a fiction writer ends and ends fittingly (...)
— Jan 04, 2025 09:03AM
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But luck was, on this occasion, with them. After looking at several apartments on the East Side and the college district, Lovecraft and Annie found a delightful house at 66 College Street, on the very crest of the hill, directly behind the John Hay Library and amid Brown's fraternity row. The house was owned by the university and was leased out as two large apartments, one on each of the two floors. (...)
— Jan 03, 2025 06:41AM
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There is undoubtedly much truth in this; anyone can tell the difference between the cocksure Lovecraft of 1914 and the mature Lovecraft of 1930. What he does not say here, however, is that one of the chief motivations for his correspondence was simple courtesy. Lovecraft answered almost every letter he ever received and usually answered it within a few days. He felt it was his obligation as a gentleman to do so. ...)
— Jan 02, 2025 10:02AM
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"The Whisperer in Darkness," the longest story Lovecraft bothered to type and submit to a publisher, brought corresponding proceeds. It was readily accepted by Farnsworth Wright, who paid Lovecraft $350.00 for it - the largest check he had ever received and would ever receive for a single work of fiction. (...)
— Jan 01, 2025 02:49PM
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I do not know how much Lovecraft got paid for "The Electric Executioner," but it landed with Weird Tales and appeared in the August 1930 issue. Predictably, readers began noticing the dropping of invented names in both this and the earlier de Castro revision; (...)
— Jan 01, 2025 09:00AM
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But the correspondence with Bishop extends far beyond mere literary tutoring. He tells her much about his personal life, philosophical beliefs, and the details of his daily existence. Perhaps Bishop was merely curious about these things (...), but whatever the case, Lovecraft was unusually forthcoming about himself in these letters.
— Dec 31, 2024 01:50PM
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As early as April 1927, Lovecraft already had a "vague and nebulous idea" of expanding "Supernatural Horror in Literature" for a putative second edition. Cook occasionally mentioned the possibility of issuing such an edition separately as a monograph. (...)
— Dec 31, 2024 08:28AM
