Description
- Abstract:
- With envelope postmarked Feb. 11, 1927 "I am sending you all the tales you list ... You will find both the pure horror and fantastic strains represented in this assortment - naturally I tend to veer betwixt the two, but professionally-minded people urge me to stick to horror as the more marketable commodity. I am just now reacting against this advice, as you will see from The Silver Key, which is recent. The Lurking Fear was done to order for a wretchedly sensational magazine four years ago ... Some day I may re-write it decently as a continuous unit. In [Polaris] - written in 1918 - you will see how close I came to the Dunsany style before I ever heard of Dunsany. My discovery of D. took place in the autumn of 1919, & produced a profound effect upon me - you will see instant reflections in The White Ship, Celephais, The Other Gods, The Doom that Came to Sarnath, &c. Pegana only knows when I'll get my 110-page affair typed - & the same applies to the tale on which I'm now at work, [p. 58] & which may get to 75 pages or so before its natural and logical conclusion appears. It centres around old Providence, & I shall call it either The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, or The Madness Out of Time." A long P.S. written on verso of envelope
- Notes:
- Immediate form of acquisition: A56835
- Lovecraft, Howard P. to Wandrei, Donald, Howard P. Lovecraft collection, Ms.Lovecraft, Brown University Library
- Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
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- No Copyright - United States
- Restrictions on Use
- Collection is open for research.
Citation
Lovecraft, H.P. (Howard Phillips),
"Lovecraft, Howard P. to Wandrei, Donald"
(1927).
Howard P. Lovecraft collection.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:931682/
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Howard P. Lovecraft collection
A collection of correspondence to and from Providence-based speculative fiction author, Howard P. Lovecraft, many of his original manuscripts, and a selection of photographs of Lovecraft, his friends and associates....