Happy Birthday, Howard

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Today is H.P. Lovecraft's 120th birthday.

In honor of this, I give you an interview with him:

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A link to his complete works:
http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/index.html

I suggest "Pickman's Model" and "The Shadow Over Innsmouth." (The Picture in the House follows the latter well)

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One of his poems that has haunted me since childhood:
XII. The Howler
(first pub. Driftwind, 7, no. 3 (November 1932), 100.)

They told me not to take the Briggs' Hill path
That used to be the highroad through to Zoar,
For Goody Watkins, hanged in seventeen-four,
Had left a certain monstrous aftermath.
Yet when I disobeyed, and had in view
The vine-hung cottage by the great rock slope,
I could not think of elms or hempen rope,
But wondered why the house still seemed so new.
...
Stopping a while to watch the fading day,
I heard faint howls, as from a room upstairs,
When through the ivied panes one sunset ray
Struck in, and caught the howler unawares.
I glimpsed - and ran in frenzy from the place,
And from a four-pawed thing with human face.

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And if you leave a comment, I will send you a copy of my Lovecraft Pastiche, Miskatonic Mistletoe, in which three werewolves and a half-elf save the world.

Comments

[firefly67.livejournal.com]

Oooo...the only thing better than 'Pickman' and 'Shadow' is 'The Dunwich Horror'. Still love that one!! Saving the interview for later, when I'm awake enough to enjoy it. I had no idea such a thing existed!!

[blkstarsapphire.livejournal.com]

So many good things to read, so little time...