Images of Frank Belknap Long and HPL

While these may have been shown elsewhere, this is a rare item that epegana is auctioning. He seems to have a vast collection of Roy Squires items.

FRANK BELKNAP LONGADVERTISING FLYER WITH PHOTOS This four-page advertising flyer was issued by his wife Lyda Arco Long to help bolster author Frank Belknap Long's flagging career. Long's association with H. P. Lovecraft forms the base of the presentation as he is shown in two photographs with HPL. This was once in the collection of Roy A. Squires and Long has penned across the top "Just thought you might be interested in this brochure". An unusual piece of ephemera for your Lovecraft or Long collection!

Sonia's 85th Birthday

I'm just amazed at the things epegana has collected and is auctioning at the ebayeum.

SONIA GREENE LOVECRAFT'S 85TH BIRTHDAY Color snapshot of Sonia Greene - once H. P. Lovecraft's wife - at her 85th birthday. Verso of snapshot in Sonia's hand reads "Dr. Lucia Liverette, and me applauding". Sonia spent her last years in a rest home in Sunland, California.

True Annecdote about Lee Brown Coye.

Some of you may want to reconsider and JOIN the Lovecraft Google Group. There are interesting sideline discussions that I really can't condense and reproduce here. Here's a terrific story from George (a great fan of Lovecraft) that he heard from an eyewitness and associate of Lee Brown Coye.

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Back around this same period, the mid-1940s, Coye's studio burned, destroying all his canvases. But Coye had the entire contents fully insured.

For the next two or three years Coye "sort of danced around the streets" of Skaneteles, with money to, ah, burn.

This made the insurance company suspicious, so it questioned Coye's friends and neighbors.

"No, no, no," the insurers were assured. "Lee's a good and honest guy. The fire was entirely accidental. But you have to understand that Lee's a COMMERCIAL artist. He painted all those canvases to SELL. Your company merely BOUGHT everything he had, all at once, at HIS prices, and that's what you AGREED to do when Lee took out the policy."

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Thanks, George!