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Letters with Donald and Howard Wandrei and to Emil Petaja

Letters with Donald and Howard Wandrei and to Emil Petaja

Lovecraft, H. P.
Joshi, S. T.
Schultz, David E.

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Letters & EssaysLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1614982570
ISBN13: 9781614982579
Publisher: Hippocampus Pr
Published: Nov 22 2019
Pages: 556
Weight: 1.62
Height: 1.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

It is safe to say that Donald Wandrei (1908-1987) was one of Lovecraft's leading correspondents. In 1924 Wandrei came in touch with his literary idol, Clark Ashton Smith, and two years later Smith referred him to Lovecraft. There began a rich, expansive communication in which both sides of the correspondence are preserved largely intact, allowing for an unprecedented glimpse into the life and beliefs of the two authors. Wandrei began as a fiery, cosmic poet in the tradition of Smith, but later took to writing weird fiction. He persuaded Farnsworth Wright of Weird Tales to accept Lovecraft's seminal tale The Call of Cthulhu, just as Lovecraft urged Wright to take Wandrei's The Red Brain. Lovecraft introduced Wandrei to his fellow Midwesterner August Derleth, and after Lovecraft's death they founded Arkham House to publish the work of Lovecraft and other writers of weird fiction.

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