1943 Bibliography

FAPA FANZINE FOR THE CLASSIC HORROR/FANTASY WRITER H. P. LOVECRAFT...16 PAGES AND LISTS IN ORDER EVERY PUBLISHED STORY BY H.P.L.

William Evans was behind this. 1943. It's nondescript, the Ebay image is just yellowed pages with indecipherable print. So, here we are just 6 years after HPL's death, and fans are compiling a lengthy bibliography of Lovecraft.

Clearly fans "in the know" were ebing encouraged by one another, and probably Derleth's dynamism, to propagate the legend. One must realize, though, this was not the New York Times, but by teenagers and college kids who thought that HPL was "in". It just so happened that these "kids" grew up to be significantly influential editors, publishers, and convention addicts. Lovecraft became one of their badges.

1943 Bibliography

[Los Angeles]: An Acolyte Publication, 1943. Large octavo, pp. 1-12, mimeographed from typewritten copy, printed self wrappers, stapled. First edition. The first Lovecraft bibliography. Issued as part of a FAPA mailing, Winter 1943. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 372. Joshi III-B-22. Currey, p. 333. Covers tanned mailing folds still visible small tears on folds else a very good copy. Rare. have never seen another.

Lovecraft and Benefit Street by Dorothy C Walter

Dorothy C. Walter, Lovecraft and Benefit Street, Driftwood Press, Vermont, 1st edition, 1943.

Published by W. Paul Cook at the Driftwood Press in an edition of only 150 copies.

Reprinted from Cook's magazine "The Ghost" for Spring of 1943.

String tied pamphlet.

Near fine condition. Rare.

Lovecraftiana VIII

December 26, 1943 newspaper clipping from "The Providence Sunday Journal". Clipping features an article titled "The Case of Howard Phillips Lovecraft of Providence, R.I. - Recluse, Scholar and Gentleman, As a Writer He Was a Master of the Macabre Tale". Newspaper clipping has been neatly folded.

More tomorrow ...

1943 Lovecraft Bibliography

HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT: 1890-1937 – A Tentative Bibliography – by FRANCIS T. LANEY and WILLIAM H. EVANS // [Los Angeles, CA.]: An "Acolyte" Publication/FAPA, 1943 // First edition (Winter 1943). The first Lovecraft bibliography. Foreword by Francis T. Laney. // A NEAR FINE-FINE copy (protected in plastic folder). Stapled. 12 pages.
Front cover slightly cropped (by scanner) in listing photo.