Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Breaking Lovecraftian News

{Whether you love his writing, or hate it, Edward Lee is an original. He ain't for everyone. He writes the most provoking, graphic, and challenging texts. And I kid you not. Violent, sadistic, and psychopathic characters abound.

He's also an enormous Lovecraft fan, and he's finally at a point where he believes he can write Lovecraftian works to expurgate that passion for HPL that he has. For 50 bucks, you can have one of 300 copies. In ten minutes dozens went when they went on sale, so plumb your pocketbook, and see if you want to get in on this event.

Disclosure, while I passed on the $300 Lovecraft art book - I know I'll one day hate myself - I did preorder a copy of this one.}



Order link:

http://www.horror-mall.com/TROLLEY-No.-1852-by-Edward-Lee-Limited-Edition-Hardcover-p-19041.html


Imagine this... In 1934, ground-breaking horror writer H.P. Lovecraft is invited to write a story for a subversive underground magazine, all on the condition that a pseudonym will be used. The pay is lofty, and God knows, HPL needs the money; therefore...he agrees.

There’s one catch.

It has to be a pornographic story...

ALL ABOARD TROLLEY NO. 1852

Through the midnight bowels of New York City, the decrepit trolley clatters on,its single yellow headlight illumining one desolate alley and squalid,trash-strewn street after the next, through crumbling ghettos and betwixt drab skyscrapers and labyrinthine edifices–indeed, the very guts of the Depression-ravaged metropolis. The Trolley admits only a special sort of rider, and takes them to a very select destination...

THE 1852 CLUB

What is the meaning behind the cryptic number, and what is the ghastly truth behind the club’s voluptuous madam? For, yes, the 1852 Club is abordello of the most macabre discrimination. Destitute academician Morgan Phillips will learn of all the club’s pestiferous secrets butnot before he is first subjected to unnameable acts degradation andabuse, and is then thrown body and soul into a morass of eroticabandon, sexual perversion, and gut-churning, brain-warping,inter-dimensional carnality so unspeakable it can scarcely bedescribed...

Join horror veteran Edward Lee in this bold homage to his favorite horror author: H.P. Lovecraft. Herein, Lee boldly converts HPL’s obscure fragment “The Thing in the Moonlight” into a full-fledged novella, incorporating as best he can the Master’s rich, singular style and vision, while integrating some of his own lurid tricks and treats...

This is a limited edition hardcover of only 300 signed and numbered copies.

Derleth to Lee Brown Coye (1963) on Lovecraft Book


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Seller's Description:
August Derleth to Lee Brown Coye - 1963

No need to tell the majority of you of the importance of August Derleth to Fantasy & SF literature. Derleth founded Arkham House publishers specifically to promote the lifework of his friend, Howard Phillips Lovecraft and along the way incidentally published the first books of Ray Bradbury, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, A. Van Vogt, Ramsey Campbell and others. Lee Brown Coye may be an unknown entity to many of you but Coye was a noted artist whose Fantastic pen & ink Grotesques were published in Weird Tales, Fantastic, and other specialty magazines, and also dust-jacket illustrations for Arkham House, Carcosa, and some earlier rare limited editions.

This one-page letter upon Derleth's personal stationary is an apparent response to a letter from Lee Brown Coye expressing interest in illustrating a volume of H. P. Lovecraft stories. Derleth warns the artist that the financial rewards would be minimal, even if he printed 3000 copies. Thie vollume was eventually published under the title "Three Tales of Horror" in an edition of only 1500 copies. The letter also notes that Coye's next assignment would be Ramsey Campbell's first book "The Inhabitant of the Lake". I don't know why Coye never completed this assignment because the published artwork was completed by Frank Utpatel.

An interesting wordy and fairly lengthy noteworthy letter. Signed with Derleth's squiggle and dated 13 September 1963.

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