In addition to his classics of horror fiction, it is estimated that Lovecraft wrote 100,000 letters — or roughly 15 every day of his adult life — ranging from one-page diaries to seventy-page diatribes. Perhaps 20,000 of those letters have survived, in the hands of private collectors and at the John Hay Library in Providence.
In each episode of this podcast, we'll read one of these letters (or part of it) and then discuss it. In his letters HPL reveals an amazing breadth of knowledge of philosophy, science, history, literature, art and many other subjects, and forcefully asserts some highly considered opinions (some of which can be upsetting).
And of course his letters offer a fascinating window into his personal life and times. Although we've been working with Lovecraftian material for over 30 years, we still find interesting new things in his letters, and while we don't claim to be experts we look forward to sharing them with a wider audience.
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- Posted December 29, 2019
Tidings of Comfort and Joy? (Part 2)
Just before Christmas in 1925, Lovecraft meets Vrest Orton for the first time. Howard is smitten by his young visitor. Is it a blossoming bromance or something more? Don't miss the giddy side of HPL in part two of his Christmas letter to his Aunt Lillian.
You can see this letter for yourself at the Brown Digital Repository. We thank them profoundly for making this and so much other material available online. Music by Troy Sterling Nies. Transcript by Olivier Decker.
This was the magazine for book collectors co-founded by Vrest Orton. It was published from 1930 to 1950.
In 1946 Vrest and his wife Mildred co-founded the Vermont Country Store, which is still going strong and still run by the Orton family.
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