00:00:05:19 - 00:00:09:18 Sean Welcome to Voluminous the letters of H.P. Lovecraft. 00:00:09:18 - 00:00:15:05 Sean In addition to classic works of gothic horror fiction. HPL wrote thousands of fascinating letters. 00:00:15:08 - 00:00:19:11 Andrew In each episode, we'll read and discuss one of them. I'm Andrew Leman, and. 00:00:19:11 - 00:00:23:06 Sean I'm Sean Brennay. Together, we run the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. 00:00:23:22 - 00:00:34:12 Andrew For today's letter, I actually chose a set of three shorter letters that were written to Rheinhart Kleiner in the late summer of 1919. 00:00:34:18 - 00:00:35:10 Sean Three, huh? 00:00:35:19 - 00:00:50:08 Andrew Three They're short, so it feels like one. And because they are, they're all written to the same person over the course of about six weeks. So they kind of feel like all one longer letter that just happens to be broken up by intervals of time. 00:00:51:00 - 00:00:55:01 Sean Well, let's let the people hear it. Okay. 00:00:56:06 - 00:01:04:14 Andrew August 12, 1919. Gifted Saint John. You may be interested to hear of the new professional literary Partnership of Molo just entered into. Moe has long been urging me to try professionalism, but I have been reluctant on account of my variation from the tastes of the period. Now, however, Moe has proposed a plan for collaboration in which his modern personality will be merged with my antique one. I am to write the material mainly fiction, because I am the more fertile in plots whilst he is to revise to suit the market, since he is the more familiar with contemporary conditions. 00:01:33:18 - 00:01:57:04 Andrew He will do all the business part also, since I detest commercialism. Then if he is able to land anything with a remunerative magazine, we shall go halves on the spoils of victory. The pseudonym under which we shall offer our composite wares for sale is a compound of our own full names. Horace Filter, Moe Craft. This is Moe's own invention. 00:01:57:11 - 00:02:15:15 Andrew I trust that we may be able to earn a farthing or two in this way, though I am hardly indulging in any al NASCAR's dream of how I shall spend my vast coming wealth. Of course, it is understood that this arrangement shall not interfere with amateur work. I shall continue to send my matter unaltered to the amateur press. 00:02:15:19 - 00:02:44:09 Andrew Merely letting Mo have carbon copies for mutilation and marketing. The real ego fee of all this will not bow to any divisor and will not own or assume responsibility for the mangled mo Kraft matter. Possibly you know that the late George Meredith, a liberal, wrote articles commercially for the conservative press against his own doctrines. This Moe crafty business is merely a sideline and by product a harmless means of turning an honest penny if possible. 00:02:45:10 - 00:03:13:23 Andrew Your sensation of being altered in some subtle way is rather singular, though not incomprehensible psychologically. Such a thing might not be an inappropriate subject for introspective, meditative verse. The oddest impression I ever possess is of the tremendously rapid rush of time which seems to slip by me. Alarmingly, events of ten or 15 years ago seem as but yesterday, and the mere fact of being grown up is at times incredible to me. 00:03:14:06 - 00:03:37:17 Andrew As I glance over some book particularly associated with my boyhood at such times, it is the present world which seems the more unreal and fantastic. I half expect to wake up and find the world of 1903 or thereabouts encircling me. This retrospective cast of mind operating in various other channels is probably what inclines me toward Greco-Roman ism and the Georgian age. 00:03:38:09 - 00:04:05:16 Andrew I remain your most humble and obedient servant. L Theobald, Jr. September 14, 1919. Castle Theobald. Esteemed but desolated St John to begin with, let me extend the sincerest commiserations on the general state of your mind and interests, which is indeed not at all unlike my own. As you are aware, I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion. For these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in the light of modern scientific knowledge with Nietzsche I have been forced to confess that mankind as a whole has no goal or purpose whatsoever, but is a mere superfluous speck in the unfathomable vortices of infinity and eternity. Accordingly, I have hardly been able to experience anything which one could call real happiness, or to take as vital an interest in human affairs as can one who still retains the hallucination of a great purpose in the general plan of terrestrial life. 00:04:38:22 - 00:05:08:16 Andrew All this, you know, through my contributions to the ClayKaMolo. However, I have never permitted the circumstances to react upon my daily life. For it is obvious that although I have, quote, nothing to live for and quote, I certainly have just as much as any other of the insignificant bacteria called human beings. I have thus been content to observe the phenomena about me with something like objective interest and to feel a certain tranquility which comes from perfect acceptance of my place as an inconsequential atom. 00:05:09:09 - 00:05:31:05 Andrew In ceasing to care about most things, I have likewise ceased to suffer in many ways. There is a real restlessness in the scientific conviction that nothing matters very much, that the only legitimate aim of humanity is to minimize acute suffering for the majority and to derive whatever satisfaction is derivable from the exercise of the mind in the pursuit of truth. If I were to criticize your present philosophy, it would be that you demand too much emotion, which is, after all, a distinctly inferior form of psychic activity. It may, of course, be pleasant and desirable in a way, but it involves the play of nervous tissue. Far less evolved than that wherein true intellect resides. It is a link with the instinct of lower creation and consequently is not to be fostered or encouraged as the supreme goal of human endeavor. 00:06:01:05 - 00:06:34:17 Andrew What man should seek is the pleasure of non-emotional imagination. The pleasure of pure reason as found in the perception of truths. It will always be more or less accompanied by secondary or vestigial emotional phenomena. But these phenomena will be of a rarefied type, dependent on reasoning and imagination. Now that poetry no longer enchants you, I should advise your choice of philosophy as a substitute for having failed to derive satisfaction from contemplating yourself as a highly organized center of impressions and sensations. 00:06:35:04 - 00:07:03:09 Andrew Try contemplating yourself as a speck of dust in the midst of infinite creation whose depths hold vast secrets for your solution. There is excitement in life, in the thought in place of LAMB Keats. Shelley or Tennyson tried Darwin, Huxley, Tindal, Spencer and Haskell. Be a scientist instead of a literature. Utter happiness in the romantic sense is in most cases an unattainable impossibility. 00:07:03:22 - 00:07:35:17 Andrew Remember that the goal of the great Epicurus was not an earthly he donor hedonism or pleasure, but the lofty ataraxia or freedom from cares and trivial thoughts. Consider yourself an impersonal observer without emotions and have as your aim in life the tranquil observation and classification of the facts about you. I'm sure that I, who hardly know what an emotion is like outside of a few bursts of honest anger once in a while, and far less vexed than he who is constantly straining after new sensations. HP Lowe, my latest pseudonym, Angell Street, east of the Great Bridge in Providence, 27 September and s 1919, Laurel Hubbard returning to the subject of Grove Street Melancholy and matrimony. I can see the logic and desirability of your present course. A year or two's wait before the ceremony is to be understood. I took all that for granted when speaking of an immediate union. Of course, I am unfamiliar with amateur phenomena, save through cursory reading. I always assumed that one waited till he encountered some nymph who seemed radically different to him from the rest of her sex and without whom he could no longer exist. Then I fancied he commenced to lay siege to her heart in businesslike fashion, not desisting till either. 00:08:27:09 - 00:08:52:08 Andrew He won her for life or was blighted by rejection of seeking affection for affection sake without any one special fair creature in mind. I was quite ignorant. Pardon? I pray you the dullness of one, but imperfectly instructed in the details of pacify and emotion. I have never perused the epistles of Mr. Mary May, nor indeed anything else of that jaunty looms. 00:08:52:21 - 00:09:18:14 Andrew My reading of published letters have largely been confined to those of 18th century British authors and of Romans such as M Tullius, Cicero, T, Pontius Atticus and C Pliny Cecelia Secondus. I agree that epistles have much interest those of Mr. Cooper being perhaps the most interesting of all. However, I can hardly agree that those pertaining to the fair are especially or even ordinarily entertaining. 00:09:19:01 - 00:09:49:11 Andrew The whole subject of the fair is so overworked and done to death by authors great and small, but to me it seems somewhat trite and bore some anything else is a relief. Yet, as you say, or rather as you quote, the influence of females upon the superficial conventions of society is perhaps not inconsiderable. I probably underestimate it, since my poor health has ever kept me within a home where in my mother and aunts have wielded influence as to that dream of mine. 00:09:49:11 - 00:10:16:05 Andrew It is but one of countless nocturnal fantasies which I experience. Only its coherence and continuity are unusual. I am forever dreaming of strange, barren landscapes, cliffs, stretches of ocean and deserted cities with towers and domes in the cloak molehill. I am relating a dream of gruesome nature, induced by reading of some of Ambrose Bierce's horror stories. I shall also repeat my abyss dream in the K, if you will pardon the repetition. 00:10:16:05 - 00:10:36:11 Andrew I want co-mingle to hear it. All this dreaming comes without the stimulus of cannabis indica. Should I take that drug? Who can say what worlds of unreality I might explore? I beg to subscribe myself. Ever. Your most obedient, humble servant, H. Padgett Lo. 00:10:37:06 - 00:10:40:12 Sean Wow. So this is Lovecraft, the advice column. 00:10:40:16 - 00:11:00:00 Andrew It is. It is kind of funny that it's Lovecraft offering, you know, romance advice to Reinhart Kleiner, who was a very dear friend of his in the amateur press movement. And he was about Lovecraft's age. I think they were only a couple of years different. And at the time, Lovecraft wrote this, he was 29 and Kleiner was 27. 00:11:00:06 - 00:11:22:11 Andrew Right. So these are two relatively inexperienced young men who are trying to find their way in the world. And here's Lovecraft already styling himself as the older and wiser. And yet at the same time utterly ignorant dispenser of matrimonial advice from a guy who doesn't have a clue what he's talking about. 00:11:22:13 - 00:11:44:16 Sean Yeah, that's it's really pretty fascinating because I think throughout the letters, he's he's always so opinionated. You never really, you know, hear him say he doesn't have much to say on any topic. He'll talk about anything even while at the same time going, yeah, this is these are my feelings about matrimony. Of course, I've I've never been alone with a woman who wasn't my aunt or my mother, but. And that was. That seems so. That's a fascinating juxtaposition to to be so vociferous in your opinions when your opinions are grounded in nothing other than opinion. 00:11:57:09 - 00:12:06:09 Andrew Yeah. A cursory reading, by his own admission. Cursory reading, as I was imperfectly instructed in the details of Parfit emotion. Boy, you can say that again. 00:12:07:08 - 00:12:09:02 Sean And what exactly did he read? 00:12:09:12 - 00:12:12:07 Andrew Well, what did he read? That is also a good question. 00:12:12:08 - 00:12:19:24 Sean And he's so scornful of anything, you know, talking about the fair, you know? Oh, yes. Yeah. What is what a waste of ink to talk about women. 00:12:19:24 - 00:12:25:02 Andrew And men and to complain about how letters about women are boring In a letter. 00:12:25:07 - 00:12:32:13 Sean About women. Yeah. No, this letter is fascinating for its all. 00:12:32:13 - 00:12:52:23 Andrew Its own internal contradictions. Yes, absolutely. I originally chose it when I chose it because it was written exactly 100 years ago, which blew my mind to think about the day I chose This was, I think, September 27th of 2019. And it was like this letter was is 100 years old. That's part of what drew me to it in the first place. 00:12:52:23 - 00:13:00:22 Andrew And then as I started to read it, I thought, Oh man, this is a gold mine of crazy and fun and interesting and and sad and everything. 00:13:01:00 - 00:13:16:00 Sean His thoughts about women and relative to his own inexperience are fascinating, but also his perspective on, I don't know, existential angst on on human happiness and all that is also all kinds of crazy. 00:13:16:07 - 00:13:33:22 Andrew And also him saying, you know, upfront, I, I don't know what happiness is. Happiness is impossible. I've never felt it. But at the same time, I'm no more unhappy than anybody else. It's like he's he doesn't let the fact that he's not happy make him unhappy. He is he just goes with it. 00:13:33:22 - 00:13:53:19 Sean He also, I think is imagining, you know, he's not more unhappy than everybody else. So we all live in this nether world, this this sort of neutral vanilla world where no one's actually happy. And is it does he think there's some sort of secret ecstasy only available to to the rarefied few? I it's. 00:13:54:10 - 00:13:59:04 Andrew Well, I think his idea of what constitutes happiness is very different from what. 00:13:59:07 - 00:14:00:06 Sean Think any sane person what. 00:14:00:06 - 00:14:02:19 Andrew Well certainly any your average. 00:14:02:19 - 00:14:03:21 Sean Person your average version. 00:14:03:21 - 00:14:04:20 Andrew They're you know it's a very. 00:14:04:20 - 00:14:05:11 Sean Polite way to talk. 00:14:06:12 - 00:14:22:02 Andrew To him. Happiness has all to do with this abstract conceptualization and isn't about happiness isn't even like an emotion in Lovecraft's world. Happiness is a is a is an idea, some sort of platonic idea. 00:14:22:02 - 00:14:49:23 Sean I think platonic ideas is a great way to express it, because I think he is really locked up in this sort of intellectualizing of everything he feels. And he gets into that the section where he's talking about the lower and higher forms of thinking, and I'm like, Oh God, what a pompous fop. It what it reminded me of, as, you know, the the high school kid who never gets invited to a party trashing the kids who go to parties. 00:14:49:23 - 00:15:02:06 Sean And what lowly types they are, and they don't understand the lofty pleasures you get home at staying at home, reading anaxagoras by yourself in a dark room and wishing it's a being so glad that you're not out with the other kids having fun. 00:15:02:06 - 00:15:20:13 Andrew I was just on Twitter this morning. I was reading. Apparently Francis Ford Coppola has now come out and said how horrible all the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies are like, Yeah, and it reminded me of this later because it's like, you know, Lovecraft at the age of 29, is a grumpy old man who who just doesn't like other people having fun. 00:15:20:13 - 00:15:29:09 Sean Yeah, absolutely. And that really came across. And there's nothing wrong with going. I am not like the hoi polloi. I'm not like the average person because he's clearly not, you know, he's. 00:15:29:09 - 00:15:29:22 Andrew Not, but. 00:15:29:22 - 00:15:31:11 Sean He is So disdain. 00:15:31:11 - 00:15:51:20 Andrew For one of the reasons he's not is because he keeps excluding himself. Sure. I think it's in this letter. Yeah. One thing I like in this in the very first paragraph of the first of these three letters where he's describing how he's going into business with Moe, this is Maurice Moe, another one of his friends in correspondence, and Moe was actually Cleaner's English teacher. 00:15:51:24 - 00:16:16:02 Andrew (Oh, was back in Wisconsin. You did not realize that.) Yeah. Maurice Moe was an English teacher in Wisconsin and Reinhart Kleiner was one of Moe's students and like his brightest, most precocious pupils. And that's how Kleiner and Lovecraft got to know each other was through Maurice Moe. Oh, okay. But at the end of this first paragraph where he's describing the how I detest commercialism and I will have nothing to do with that tawdry business end of things that will all be moot. 00:16:16:08 - 00:16:38:22 Andrew And then he literally puts in quotes and I don't know if Lovecraft's the guy who, you know, invented this, I'd like to think he was. But if he is able to land anything in one of his remunerative magazines, we shall go halves. And he puts that in quotes. He's literally like holding with tongs this language that common people use the I mean, he can't even bring himself to actually say, we'll go halves. 00:16:39:01 - 00:16:50:12 Andrew He's got to put it in quotes because it's so distasteful. Right. So beneath him, the thought of sharing the money with Moe is so plebeian that he can't even bring himself to just say it with his own voice. 00:16:51:17 - 00:16:56:16 Sean Well, and it's not even about going halves. I think it's about making money. Oh, yeah. No, that's what I mean. 00:16:56:16 - 00:17:04:16 Andrew It's like just the language of commerce is has to be put in quotes because he can't let that be in his own mouth. 00:17:04:18 - 00:17:05:04 Sean Sure. 00:17:05:19 - 00:17:26:23 Andrew Thinking about Lovecraft as being both, you know, without ego and also horribly egotistical at the same time. A lot of craft at this time and Kleiner and Moe were all deeply involved in the amateur press movement. Right. And this was before Lovecraft had ever had a professionally published story. This was years before his first sale to weird tales. 00:17:27:04 - 00:17:41:05 Andrew He seems to be very concerned that Kleiner will think less of him for getting into the business end. He's so careful to say, Oh, but I won't let this interfere with amateur work. And right. And and yeah. 00:17:41:06 - 00:17:44:16 Sean Won't lose his reputation as an artist by having done stuff. 00:17:44:16 - 00:18:06:24 Andrew And then even, you know, cites this other author, George Meredith. You know, George Meredith did this. George Meredith wrote conservative articles even though he was a liberal. Right. So, you know, it's it's it's okay that I'm doing this. He's really trying very hard to justify this attempt at selling fiction to his fellow amateur and a guy whose opinion apparently means a lot to him. 00:18:07:03 - 00:18:36:18 Sean I think we see a lot of places that sort of prevailing patrician attitude that that, you know, earning money is for someone else. And that, well, his financial situation became increasingly dire over the course of his life. But somehow, yeah, fundamentally, he still has this notion of himself as an 18th century English gentleman whom for whom money just is, and it's the serfs out working the land that are somehow filling the coffers. 00:18:36:18 - 00:18:53:13 Sean And you just don't have to worry about those things. And there's something, I think, where he's sort of feels a little sullied. He's happy when he makes a sale because they need the money. But but there's something I think intellectually that that he's he's dirtied himself in engaging in the world of commerce. 00:18:53:16 - 00:19:13:16 Andrew When he was a little boy, the family had money and it was a devastating blow when when his grandfather died and the family business turned out was not in good shape and his mother didn't know what to do. And it was the loss of the Phillips family fortune was devastating. Oh, sure. And he clearly never recovered from it. 00:19:13:18 - 00:19:15:23 Andrew Well, yeah. And mean he's sort of mean. 00:19:15:23 - 00:19:26:05 Sean It manifests itself, I think, in a lot of the stories things. Oh, yeah. The. The rats in the walls. Yeah, A sense of something having once been grand and the foundations are rotting out from underneath. 00:19:26:05 - 00:19:47:16 Andrew His attitude toward, you know, making a living is something he struggles with his entire life. Yeah. Another thing that struck me when I was reading this letter is his sense of, you know, to him, the strangest sensation he gets is the passage of time. And I'm mad. I hear that. Yeah, I definitely hear that. Especially, you know, here we are still doing the stuff we did in high school. 00:19:47:21 - 00:20:03:21 Andrew We've managed to somehow make our living doing the goofy stuff we did in high school in some ways. And it's like, Yeah, I when you say 15 years pass in an instant, I like man. Yeah. Howard, I feel your baby because I have that feeling every day. 00:20:03:22 - 00:20:07:15 Sean Sure. So he addresses these to Saint John. 00:20:07:15 - 00:20:16:22 Andrew Saint John? Yeah. That was his nickname for his dear friend Reinhart Kleiner. He called him Randolph Saint John. I don't. Not exactly sure why. That's his nickname for Kleiner. 00:20:17:00 - 00:20:18:03 Sean That was my next question. 00:20:18:03 - 00:20:42:05 Andrew But he does refer to him as Saint John. And in fact, in the story, The Hound, the friend character is called Saint John. And that is a reference to Kleiner, because that story was they were hanging out together in some graveyard when they cooked up the story of the Hound. Typical. Yeah. So Saint John, I expect, will read other letters that are addressed to Saint John, but Saint John is Reinhart No doubt. 00:20:42:05 - 00:20:47:11 Sean Well, personally, I feel good that it wasn't just you and me who were the only dudes hanging out in graveyards. 00:20:47:11 - 00:20:51:18 Andrew So it's a little time honored tradition. 00:20:51:18 - 00:20:52:17 Sean Comes with the territory. 00:20:52:17 - 00:20:54:16 Andrew All the best people hang out in graveyards. 00:20:54:16 - 00:20:58:24 Sean A little like most fashionable. Well, we're on it, KleiCoMoLo. 00:20:59:03 - 00:21:21:07 Andrew Lovecrafted this a lot. Like the KleiComolo club and other things like that. The KleiCoMolo was a group of four guys, the Klei is Kleiner, right? The CO is a guy named Ira Cole, Right? MOe is Maurice Moe. Yeah. That's an easy one. No brainer. And the LO is for Lovecraft himself. So KleiComolo is Kleiner Cole Moe and Lovecraft. It was like a group pen pal situation. They kept sending this letter around to the four of them. 00:21:27:17 - 00:21:36:03 Sean Sort of like the challenge from beyond the fiction. This was the literature. Now. But there was another there was the KLM club were the ones who met up in person in New York. 00:21:36:14 - 00:21:52:07 Andrew Yeah, that was when he lived in New York, the KLM, and it was called the KLM Club because most of them, they had a last name that started with either K.L. or and then also in this letter, he later he says, Oh, I, I want to send that. I want the common gal to read it. That's another one of these little dragging. 00:21:52:07 - 00:21:52:24 Sean Galpin I bet. 00:21:52:24 - 00:22:04:14 Andrew So exactly. The Como gal is called Mo and Alfred Galpin, and so he'll drop the alfred galpin weird hybrid names and things made out of initials. And it's just a shorthand way of referring to specific groups of people. 00:22:04:14 - 00:22:07:19 Sean I think he should have gone Russian and had the KleiCoMolo . 00:22:08:10 - 00:22:13:03 Andrew Kcomolo. Maybe we can make KleiCoMolo a character in some some later a dark. 00:22:13:03 - 00:22:14:16 Sean Adventure show adventure. Here we go. 00:22:15:13 - 00:22:23:07 Andrew All right, there's one other thing. Look, just a little turn of phrase that I found interesting. Groves treat melancholy. Do you know what that is? 00:22:23:07 - 00:22:24:03 Sean I have never heard of that. 00:22:24:12 - 00:22:40:03 Andrew Neither had I. So I looked it up in Grove Street. It turns out that famous street in Oxford, it was also known as Magpie Lane and it was like a red light district. Oh, back in the back. Apparently back in the 13th century, it was called Grope Cunt Lane. 00:22:40:06 - 00:22:42:00 Sean Oh, well, there you go. 00:22:42:00 - 00:22:56:21 Andrew So if you're talking about Grove Street Melancholy or Grove Street, anything, you're you're talking about troubles with women. Exactly. It just goes to show you the breadth of Lovecraft's knowledge of obscure things. You know that he did Century. 00:22:56:21 - 00:22:57:03 Sean British. 00:22:57:03 - 00:23:11:09 Andrew Street, you know. Yeah. That he would refer to trouble with women as you know well, Goodyear Grove Street troubles. Yes. Apparently it was at the time he wrote the letter, it was called Grove Street. And then like in 1927, they changed it officially back to Magpie. 00:23:13:03 - 00:23:13:05 Sean It. 00:23:13:16 - 00:23:15:00 Andrew Back to back to Magpie. 00:23:15:01 - 00:23:15:18 Sean They progressed. 00:23:15:18 - 00:23:31:18 Andrew Apparently that's that's there was a pub in the street called The Magpie or something. So they called it Magpie Lane. Anyway, there was just another one of those little, little things that might sail right by, but it was like, Oh, there's actually a deep story behind this. Just a little phrase of Grove Street melancholy. 00:23:31:19 - 00:23:59:00 Sean Go figure. One last thing I decided to bring up briefly. Lovecraft is incredibly potent dreamer. Yeah. And and you know, has these great dreams and articulates them to others. And I just thought it was for a guy who's a teetotaler and who disdains smoking and disdains drinking and everything that there's there's almost a hint of I wonder what would be unchained in me if I were to endure the stimulus of cannabis Indica 00:23:59:00 - 00:24:09:09 Andrew hat was another reason I chose this letter, because this is in this set of three letters. Lovecraft is talking about sex and drugs, which are two topics that we don't normally think about. 00:24:09:09 - 00:24:11:01 Sean Why? Why didn't he talk about rock and roll? 00:24:11:02 - 00:24:16:16 Andrew I've only I've only mentioned jazz and how horrible that is. 00:24:17:22 - 00:24:24:13 Sean Our thanks today to Arkham House Publishing for having printed the selected letters of H.P. Lovecraft, from which this letter came. 00:24:24:21 - 00:24:28:02 Andrew You can learn more about them. I know they still have a website. 00:24:28:02 - 00:24:32:01 Sean They do. It's kind of weird and clunky and old, but last time I bought something there, I got it. 00:24:33:00 - 00:24:34:07 Andrew I should have looked up the URL. 00:24:35:06 - 00:24:38:01 Sean Google Arkham House. Yeah. Youth, They're out there. 00:24:38:14 - 00:24:39:09 Andrew Okay, There you go. 00:24:40:20 - 00:24:42:24 Sean I'm your obedient servant, Sean Branney. 00:24:42:24 - 00:24:46:09 Andrew And I'm cordially and respectfully yours. Andrew Leman. 00:24:46:13 - 00:24:50:05 Sean You've been listening to Voluminous the letters of H.P. Lovecraft. 00:24:50:05 - 00:25:41:21 Andrew Brought To you by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. Come check out all we have to offer at HPLHS.org