Sarg Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 On 5/26/2021 at 12:08 PM, OtherEric said: Jumping past my copy of the July 1941 Weird Tales, since @jimjum12just posted his nice copy. Here's the October 1941 Famous Fantastic Mysteries, with a reprint of "The Colour Out of Space", which at least gets equal billing on the cover even if the gorgeous Finlay art is for the other story. Lovecraft's stories tended to not have loads of naked women in them like this cover illustration. Lovecraft in fact considered this kind of thing embarrassing. OtherEric 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RedFury Posted June 2, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 2, 2021 I have acquired H.P. Lovecraft's DNA. Step one is complete. jimjum12, Sarg, IngelsFan and 7 others 7 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedFury Posted June 2, 2021 Author Share Posted June 2, 2021 The letter this envelope once carried can be read on page 213 (#123) of Selected Letters Volume 1. jimjum12, Xaltotun and Surfing Alien 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted June 2, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 2, 2021 Marginalia, released by Arkham House in late 1944 as their third collection of Lovecraft material. The highlight here would be the first publication of "The Transition of Juan Romero", one of the last Lovecraft stories to be published. jimjum12, bc, IngelsFan and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted June 3, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 3, 2021 From 1945, the Best Supernatural Stories of H. P. Lovecraft. My copy is a 1st print. Since we've already discussed this book in this thread, I just want to call attention to the image on the spine... it looks to me like the specter is meant to look like HPL, specifically based on the "eyes in shadow" version of the picture @RedFuryposted to start this thread: Xaltotun, Sarg, Surfing Alien and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted June 4, 2021 Share Posted June 4, 2021 7 hours ago, OtherEric said: From 1945, the Best Supernatural Stories of H. P. Lovecraft. My copy is a 1st print. Since we've already discussed this book in this thread, I just want to call attention to the image on the spine... it looks to me like the specter is meant to look like HPL, specifically based on the "eyes in shadow" version of the picture @RedFuryposted to start this thread: Sure does! Nice Homage.Is there an artist credit? OtherEric 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted June 4, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 4, 2021 17 hours ago, 50YrsCollctngCmcs said: Sure does! Nice Homage.Is there an artist credit? None that I can find. January 1946 Weird Tales, with a reprint of "Recapture", one of the Fungi From Yuggoth sonnets. I actually got this book sent to me by accident when I ordered a different issue, but it was so beautiful in hand I couldn't let it go and worked out a deal with the seller where I kept this at a discount and he sent me the issue I had actually ordered. Almost certainly the highest grade WT in my collection. jimjum12, Sarg, Surfing Alien and 4 others 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedFury Posted June 4, 2021 Author Share Posted June 4, 2021 Very nice! I've somehow ended up with 4 copies of the Canadian edition of this one (and 1 US version). jimjum12, asimovpulps, Xaltotun and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 August 1946 Amazing Stories, with the first publication of "Bothon" by Henry S. Whitehead, very shortly before its inclusion in "West India Lights" from Arkham House. Most sources seem to actually place its first publication in the Arkham House volume, but Arkham House ads in Weird Tales show that the Amazing Stories was released earlier. It's unclear exactly how much Lovecraft had to do with the story. It seems that he may have been involved in the early stages of creating it rather than his more normal pattern of modifying a completed story. It's also quite likely August Derleth was involved with the story as it finally appeared, as Whitehead and Lovecraft had both been dead several years before the story was finally printed. RedFury, bc and Surfing Alien 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted June 6, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 6, 2021 January 1947 Weird Tales, with reprints of two of the Fungi from Yuggoth sonnets: The Familiars, and The Pigeon-Flyers. jimjum12, RedFury, bc and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 Avon Fantasy Reader #1, from February 1947. This one has a reprint of "Nostalgia", one of the Fungi From Yuggoth sonnets. Don't worry, other issues of the series have actual stories by Lovecraft, I think this is the only one with just a poem. Lovecraft is in almost half the issues of the run. Surfing Alien, bc and Scrooge 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted June 8, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 8, 2021 Avon Fantasy Reader 3 from July 1947, with a reprint of "The Silver Key". Xaltotun, jimjum12, Scrooge and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 7 hours ago, OtherEric said: Avon Fantasy Reader 3 from July 1947, with a reprint of "The Silver Key". After Lovecraft passed away did his estate receive royalties for reprinting his work? Things were fairly shady in the publishing industry back then so it makes me wonder. jimjum12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimjum12 Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 2 hours ago, 50YrsCollctngCmcs said: After Lovecraft passed away did his estate receive royalties for reprinting his work? Things were fairly shady in the publishing industry back then so it makes me wonder. Did he even have any heirs... it's been some time since I read his Bio ... by De Kamp ? GOD BLESS... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) IngelsFan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RedFury Posted June 9, 2021 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 9, 2021 38 minutes ago, jimjum12 said: Did he even have any heirs... it's been some time since I read his Bio ... by De Kamp ? GOD BLESS... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) Lovecraft's aunt, Annie Phillips Gamwell, was his sole heir. Barlow was the executor of his literary estate. Derleth later claimed all rights to Lovecraft's work, but it's unclear how he acquired them and it all may have been a bluff. Lovecraft's aunt died in 1941 and Barlow committed suicide in 1951, so after that point I don't know if there was anyone left to contest Derleth's claim. IngelsFan, Surfing Alien, jimjum12 and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 44 minutes ago, jimjum12 said: Did he even have any heirs... it's been some time since I read his Bio ... by De Kamp ? GOD BLESS... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) His aunt inherited what he had, she died in 1941. Her heirs gave Arkham House the right to reprint Lovecraft's stories, but beyond that details are fuzzy and complicated. Nothing was apparently renewed so everything is now in the public domain pretty much unambiguously. As regards the reprint @50YrsCollctngCmcsasked about, I have little doubt Avon paid a (small) fee for the reprint rights. The copyright statement in the issue shows it was copyright 1928 by Popular Fiction Publishing Company (Weird Tales) and copyright 1939 by Derleth and Wanderi (Arkham House). No clue if Arkham House gave any of the fee to the actual heirs. 50YrsCollctngCmcs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtherEric Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 4 minutes ago, RedFury said: Lovecraft's aunt, Annie Phillips Gamwell, was his sole heir. Barlow was the executor of his literary estate. Derleth later claimed all rights to Lovecraft's work, but it's unclear how he acquired them and it all may have been a bluff. Lovecraft's aunt died in 1941 and Barlow committed suicide in 1951, so after that point I don't know if there was anyone left to contest Derleth's claim. You posted while I was still typing. I'm pretty sure Derleth made his claim stick by having nobody who particularly cared to fight, and by the time Derleth passed without properly renewing anything there would only be at most 6 stories that would possibly be not in the public domain... The Transition of Juan Romero, Old Bugs, and 4 juvenalia. 50YrsCollctngCmcs and RedFury 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted June 9, 2021 Share Posted June 9, 2021 Great reason to remember Justice is Blind unless you help open her eyes! Anyway, I'm sure the amounts involved here were fairly small; the long game would have been renewals paying off in a movie deal decades down the line. But no one really saw that coming and only the ongoing publishers struck it big there. Although the alternate universe where Weird Tales remained a force and Lovecraft's tales became Hollywood blockbusters is fun to contemplate. Oh and it sort of happened with Tarzan and associated properties. ERB was smart enough to incorporate and only last month I was talking to reps from ERB Inc. out here at a local show. OtherEric 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OtherEric Posted June 9, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted June 9, 2021 The Lurking Fear, from 1947. It's interesting, Lovecraft actually got four popularly priced editions during the 40's, plus a Armed Services Edition. But as far as I'm aware there were no popularly priced editions in the US during the 50's. Surfing Alien, Scrooge, IngelsFan and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
50YrsCollctngCmcs Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 (edited) Missed my daily Lovecraft fix! But the boards are back! Edited June 11, 2021 by 50YrsCollctngCmcs asimovpulps, bc and OtherEric 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
