Lovecraft in Bizarre (1941)

Bizarre [formerly Scienti-Snaps] #4.1 (January 1941)
Edited by Jack Chapman Miske & Walter E. Marconette
22 pages
Contents:
* H.P. Lovecraft, "The Thing in the Moonlight" (fiction)
* A. Merritt, "The Dwellers in the Mirage" (fiction)
* Earl Singleton, "On H.P. Lovecraft's 'The Festival'" (verse)
* cover art, interior art, and article (autobiography) by Hannes Bok
* articles by John W. Campbell Jr., E.E. (Doc) Smith, Forrest J. Ackerman, Harry Warner Jr, Walter E. Marconette, J. Chapman Miske (as "The Star-Treader")
* 1/2-page ad for Lovecraft's The Outsider & Others (Arkham House)
* ads for Spaceways, Fantasy News, Le Zombie, Imagination, Stardust

A Carbon Copy of The Festival circa 1923

"FESTIVAL, THE" [short story]. TYPED MANUSCRIPT (TMs). 10 pages. {One page image available} Typed (double-spaced) on the rectos of ten sheets of plain 8 1/2 x 11-inch paper. Carbon copy. "H. P. Lovecraft, / 598 Angell St, / Providence, R. I." typed at the upper left corner of the first sheet, the street address overwritten to 66 College" in Lovecraft's hand (May 1933 or after). Undated, but circa late 1923. A circulating copy with "please return" in pencil at to left corner of first leaf. ... The manuscript is {said to be} typed on cheap pulp paper stock which is frayed at edges, quite age-darkened, and delicate at the folds, several leaves with tape repairs to versos. Fair to good condition. Provenance: Barlow / Derleth Papers. (#114691) $2,500.00

Lovecraft's Legacy: 1984

Empire Fantasy Presents Magazine
Featuring H P Lovecraft
It contains grapic depictions of the stories
The Festival
The House of Shadows
The HOund
An Introduction to The Cthulu Mythos
It is 11 inches by 8.5 inches

Lovecraft's Legacy: 1944

Only seven years after his death, this WWII era book exhibited a few of HPL's stories. Notice the typos (or enhancement) on the cover for "The Whisperer in the Darkness" and "The Weird Shadow Over Innsmouth

Christmas 1923 & Happly Holidays to YOU, the HPLblog Readers !

In The Festival, HPL wrote, "It was the Yuletide, that men call Christmas though they know in their heads it is older than Bethlehem and Babylon, older than Memphis and mankind."

Indulgent in alliteration, and effusive in atheistic mockery, Lovecraft looked ahead from his October 1923 writing tablet in Providence to the yule season a few months hence to place this horrific story. But what was the Yule season sitz im leben for HPL and Providence in 1923?

I thought it would be fun to think of "kewpie" dolls, and little model Ford cars, and art deco Christmas cards for this posting. Also, a snippet from a Norman Rockwell Cover of 1923's Saturday Evening Post. I thought the cat in the window of the card (above) would make HPL smile.