Popular Post asimovpulps Posted November 8, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted November 8, 2022 <cross posting given the Lovecraft focus> Was waiting until I was completely done, and today I am... I present, every Lovecraft cover story in the pulps! I'll get a full group shot at some point, but figured I'd share my excitement in real time. In chronological order: Weird Tales - May-June-July 1924 - Imprisoned With the Pharaohs (ghost written for Houdini) Astounding Stories - February 1936 - At the Mountains of Madness Astounding Stories - June 1936 - The Shadow Out of Time Weird Tales - May 1942 Canadian variant - The Shadow Over Innsmouth Weird Tales - September 1952 - Hallowe'en in a Suburb Blorgon scum, IngelsFan, PopKulture and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPark Posted November 8, 2022 Share Posted November 8, 2022 On 11/7/2022 at 11:45 PM, asimovpulps said: <cross posting given the Lovecraft focus> Was waiting until I was completely done, and today I am... I present, every Lovecraft cover story in the pulps! I'll get a full group shot at some point, but figured I'd share my excitement in real time. In chronological order: Weird Tales - May-June-July 1924 - Imprisoned With the Pharaohs (ghost written for Houdini) Astounding Stories - February 1936 - At the Mountains of Madness Astounding Stories - June 1936 - The Shadow Out of Time Weird Tales - May 1942 Canadian variant - The Shadow Over Innsmouth Weird Tales - September 1952 - Hallowe'en in a Suburb I'm still looking for that canadian weird tales... asimovpulps 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blorgon scum Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 It's the time of year that waiting and watching parcels make there way through the postal system a nervous time. Here is Lovecraft at Last. frozentundraguy, Artifiction, Pat Calhoun and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Pulpvault Posted January 16, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 16, 2023 If you're looking for a rare H.P. Lovecraft item -- whether for yourself or as a gift for someone special in your life -- look no further than this year's upcoming Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention (April 21-23, 2023, held at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center in Lombard, IL). There will be plenty of HPL material in our 180 table dealer room, featuring dealers from the U.S, Canada and the U.K.And our Friday and Saturday night auctions will have even more HPL material, including this incredibly rare item in our Saturday session. It's a typescript leaf used by the printer for HPL's first published book, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," published by The Visionary Publishing Company in 1936. At some point, collector, book dealer and small press publisher Roy Squires acquired 43 of the surviving pages of this typescript. He then bound each one separately, of which this is number 25. In addition to the bound page, the lot includes the printed envelope created by Squires to house it, as well as the original mailing envelope used to mail it. Needless to say (but I'll say it anyway!), an extremely scarce HPL collectible! Sarg, comicjack, waaaghboss and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pulpvault Posted January 18, 2023 Share Posted January 18, 2023 Here's a couple of other rare items that will be in the Saturday night auction at this year's upcoming Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention (April 21-23, 2023, held at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center in Lombard, IL). First is a carbon typescript of Donald Wandrei's "The Sea Change" (published in the May 1933 issue of Weird Tales as "Spawn of the Sea"). This copy was apparently sent to members of the Lovecraft Circle for comments; per pencil notations on the first page it was sent to H.P. Lovecraft, then on to August Derleth, then on to Clark Ashton Smith, then back to Wandrei. The typescript consists of 19 pages, each in a protective plastic sheet, placed in a three ring binder.Second is a copy of the May 1927 issue of "Midwest Student", published by the Midwest Student Association in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This issue contains a weird poem by Donald Wandrei, “The Corpse Speaks” (later collected in 1964 in Wandrei’s collection of poems, “Poems for Midnight,” published by Arkham House). It's signed by Wandrei on the contents page. FoggyNelson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pulpvault Posted January 21, 2023 Share Posted January 21, 2023 Here's another of the Weird Tales which arrived yesterday, which will be auctioned in the Saturday night auction at this year's Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention (April 21-23, 2023 at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center in Lombard, IL). This one is the October 1933 issue, which among other tales features Robert E. Howard's Conan novelette, "The Pool of the Black One," as well as a reprint of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Festival" and Clark Ashton Smith's, "The Seed of the Sepulcher." waaaghboss, Sarg and jimjum12 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted July 2, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted July 2, 2023 Found in the wild today. I would describe this one as at the very bottom of the A-list Lovecraft Arkham House books, but with the first publication of two revisions it's on the A-list, I think: jimjum12, Sarg, RedFury and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoggyNelson Posted July 4, 2023 Share Posted July 4, 2023 On 1/17/2023 at 7:00 PM, Pulpvault said: Here's a couple of other rare items that will be in the Saturday night auction at this year's upcoming Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention (April 21-23, 2023, held at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center in Lombard, IL). First is a carbon typescript of Donald Wandrei's "The Sea Change" (published in the May 1933 issue of Weird Tales as "Spawn of the Sea"). This copy was apparently sent to members of the Lovecraft Circle for comments; per pencil notations on the first page it was sent to H.P. Lovecraft, then on to August Derleth, then on to Clark Ashton Smith, then back to Wandrei. The typescript consists of 19 pages, each in a protective plastic sheet, placed in a three ring binder.Second is a copy of the May 1927 issue of "Midwest Student", published by the Midwest Student Association in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This issue contains a weird poem by Donald Wandrei, “The Corpse Speaks” (later collected in 1964 in Wandrei’s collection of poems, “Poems for Midnight,” published by Arkham House). It's signed by Wandrei on the contents page. Neat modern art cover👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ameri Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 I picked up this biography. Chocked full of photos and analysis of many of his works IngelsFan, jimjum12, OtherEric and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted September 23, 2023 Share Posted September 23, 2023 In today, courtesy of @Surfing Alien. It contains "The Music of Erich Zahn": RedFury and jimjum12 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarg Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 bump RedFury 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Darwination Posted April 19 Popular Post Share Posted April 19 Singed right edge of the indicia page I don't think these are terribly uncommon but pretty cool, 500 made. https://archive.org/details/ech-pi-el-speaks-1972-darwination-dpp OtherEric, Blorgon scum, jimjum12 and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted May 22 Popular Post Share Posted May 22 Finally got myself this one, I posted it over in paperbacks but it deserves to be seen here too: IngelsFan, KirbyJack, chevalmeow and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Darwination Posted May 22 Popular Post Share Posted May 22 After seeing the Canadian edition of Weird Tales May 1942 at the top of this page in asimovpulps' post, I was most excited to come across the OA at Heritage and took the opportunity to work with the image a bit taking out paint cracks and other obvious physical blemishes. I tried not to do much with the color outside of a very minimum de-aging. If you click on the image, you can get a little bit on the artist in the Flickr placard. Hammer price on the 2013 HA sale = $1,613.25 I love how the reef creates a white space for the story titles. Almost round like a drum. Some of those Canadian covers are pretty cool (and this one just *might* be my fave of all Weird Tales HPL covers). Got one coming up in the July showcase at HA featuring the Roger Hill collection. The weirdest of the Canadian WT covers? A bloody and slightly transparent butter knife?! pmpknface, jimjum12, OtherEric and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Darwination Posted May 22 Popular Post Share Posted May 22 (edited) I took the time to read through this whole thread today, wow. There are some really great items in here and many bits on Lovecraft I wasn't aware of. I was hoping to see a run of Home Brew, though I've hunted that magazine for years (as a scanner/archivist, not as an HPL collector) with next to no sightings. There are two appearances of the first issue at Heritage (one in a mixed lot of SF softcovers) but no other issues. I've done just a bit more digging just now and added a couple of cover images to my files (and somehow a couple of issues are at Worthpoint I missed, kills me how that happens). I think the best way to show the nature of the magazine might be to point to a sister publication I've scanned with an edit by my pal McCoy. It's at the IA here: https://archive.org/details/high-life-v-03n-04-1923-05.-houtain-darwination-mc-coy-ia I don't think you'd call Home Brew an amateur magazine - I almost see it as more of a boutique magazine. Regional magazine may be fair, too, but it was out of Chicago, likely the largest hub of magazines at the time not in the northeast. High-Life is a mix of art and literature and girlie pics/slightly risque content that was driving so much of the magazine market at the time, and I imagine Home Brew was the same. Anyways, I'll share the images I do have re: the Lovecraft material. Phil Stephensen-Payne says at his magazine index of the pub in his typical entertaining fashion, "Intended as a slightly saucy humour magazine but now remembered only for the serialization of Lovecraft's "Grewsome Tales" ("Herbert West -- Reanimator") and "The Lurking Fear." Looking at his index I see about ten separate issues that include Lovecraft, but there easily could be more It looks like the first issues each have a chapter of Herbert West: Reanimator Do excuse if this isn't very sexy, but I'm just gonna run down what I've got in the way of images that may (or may not) enlighten. I may never track down scanning issues but sharing the images I do have here and now is at least something. Home Brew 1922-02 v01n01 front cover Absolutely charming cover design. Fictionmags notes this one has "From the Dark" - and aggravatingly the indexer does not index the rest of the magazine outside of HPL, for shame Back cover of the same issue (notably a national advertisement) Home Brew 1922-03 v01n02 NO COVER IMAGE, hook me up if you have it Fictionmags notes inclusion of HPL's The Plague Demon. Home Brew 1922-04.Houtain v01n03 cover Tepper Home Brew 1922-04.Houtain v01n03 contents f Featuring Six Shots by Moonlight by H.P.L. Also note here illustration by Art Helfant who was in a variety of magazines throughout the decades as well an artist in the comics of the golden age. On the left, the magazine boasts a 2,000,000 circulation. This seems high to me, but I've run into other publications from the 20s with similarly high stated circulations that are just as ghosty. Very neat graphics. The first HPL page The back cover Home Brew 1922-05 v01n04 NO COVER IMAGE, hook me up if you have it Fictionmags shows inclusion HPL's The Scream of the Dead Home Brew 1922-06 v01n05 cover (tiny image, can't make out the cover artist sig) Fictionmags shows HPL's Six Shots by Moonlight Home Brew 1922-07 v01n06 cover Tepper Fictionmags shows this issue concluding Reanimator with The Tomb Legions. The record gets a little more spotty here with a lack of cover images over the next few months and no indexed HPL (I'm totally assuming if there was HPL within, these magazines would have been tracked down). If you have cover images for these months, do let me know. Home Brew 1922-11 cover Dash (no HPL here but I'm including a front and back cover, itty though they may be) Home Brew 1922-12.Houtain v02n05 cover Dash. So this is another HPL item of import, there's no fiction but an early picture as well as some hype. Home Brew 1922-12.Houtain v02n05 indicia Lovecraft portrait and ballyhoo, no dark circles at the eyes that eye can see, just a puckered grin. Also in the contents Jack Woodford who at this time might have also been writing for another Chicago magazine, 10-Story Book, edited by Harry Stephen Keeler. Woodford may be most famous today for his writings on writing, but he was prolific in the girlie pulps and his paperback editions show up in our paperback thread quite often. Home Brew 1923-01 v02n06 cover Dash The Lurking Fear begins (Part 1 of 4) Home Brew 1923-02 cover Dash The Lurking Fear Part 2. I've got a couple images of the text for this. Illustration by Clark Ashton Smith Home Brew 1923-03 cover Dash includes part 3 of The Lurking Fear Home Brew 1923-04 cover Dash Includes Part 4 of The Lurking Fear I believe the following May issue (if it exists) is the final issue of the magazine (shoot me a cover image if you have one!) There is a 1972 publication that has much or all of the Lurking Fear material from Home Brew which had a run of 500, by the way. I don't own it but have five sample images. It's nice to know that Brown has a full run of these magazines. A lasting and complete public archiving of this peculiar magazine cover to cover will likely require a visit to this or some other library that holds all the issues - unless one of you collectors is holding Edited May 22 by Darwination Pat Calhoun, Surfing Alien, jimjum12 and 5 others 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted July 3 Popular Post Share Posted July 3 (edited) For whatever reason, I had not wound up tracking down the standard Arkham House Lovecraft collections for some reason, and they're starting to get scarcer. Not really concerned with printings, since they're not the earliest versions. Still need to track down Dunwich Horror: Edited July 3 by OtherEric chevalmeow, Vince G, Darwination and 3 others 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted July 9 Popular Post Share Posted July 9 And, as suggested above, I found a copy of The Dunwich Horror to go with the others. I suppose I should track down the Arkham Collected Poems eventually, with these, Selected Letters I-V, and Miscellaneous Writings I think that's the only one of the final Arkham House Lovecraft collections I still need. And, of course, several of the early ones before they started actually doing versions they would actually reprint rather than reshuffle things yet again. RedFury, jimjum12, Darwination and 2 others 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimjum12 Posted July 10 Share Posted July 10 On 7/9/2024 at 5:57 PM, OtherEric said: And, as suggested above, I found a copy of The Dunwich Horror to go with the others. I suppose I should track down the Arkham Collected Poems eventually, with these, Selected Letters I-V, and Miscellaneous Writings I think that's the only one of the final Arkham House Lovecraft collections I still need. And, of course, several of the early ones before they started actually doing versions they would actually reprint rather than reshuffle things yet again. That's a bad azz cover. Which printing is this? Does it predate the 1963 version? GOD BLESS ... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) Darwination 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted July 10 Share Posted July 10 On 7/10/2024 at 7:30 AM, jimjum12 said: That's a bad azz cover. Which printing is this? Does it predate the 1963 version? GOD BLESS ... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) Corrected 8th printing, from some time in the 90's. jimjum12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RedFury Posted September 16 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 16 Robert Bloch on H.P. Lovecraft, Part 1 The Lovecraft I Never Knew I have recently purchased several original signed, typed essays on H.P. Lovecraft by Robert Bloch and will share them here. In this first one, The Lovecraft I Never Knew, Bloch defends his old friend Lovecraft from what he perceived as falsehoods and attacks by people who did not really know or understand him. I cannot find if this was published anywhere, but it probably dates from the 1970s. davet75, jimjum12, Surfing Alien and 2 others 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...