Murray Groat | Herge and Lovecraft. Autumn longing: H.P. Lovecraft « The Teeming Brain. If you haven’t yet read my first post in this series of posts about a special mood of ethereal longing that occasionally overcomes me, then please read that one before this one, since it lays the groundwork to explain what I’m getting at here. H.P. Lovecraft was an early 20th century American horror author who has long been associated in mainstream memory with Weird Tales and the other 1920s and 1930s pulp magazines that were devoted to fantasy, science fiction, and horror. What has been less well known outside of his relatively small but passionately devoted circle of admirers is that he was also a fantastically prolific epistolarian, an accomplished literary critic, a student of architecture, a devoted antiquarian, an amateur chemist and astronomer, and a philosopher and political theorist of enormous insight and acumen.
Fortunately, a vigorous scholarly movement arose in the 1970s, spearheaded by the precocious young scholar S.T. Or again, from a 1930 letter to Clark Ashton Smith: H. P. Lovecraft And His Legacy. Weird Tales: The Strange Life Of H.P. Lovecraft (originally on BBC Radio 3) H.P. Lovecraft Documentary - THE NIGHTMARE NETWORK.
Re: H.P. Lovecraft Documentary THE ELDRITCH INFLUENCE: The Life, Vision & Phenomenon of H.P. Lovecraft "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. This spoken quote starts off what I think is a competent documentary on the life and influence of H.P. The documentary starts out as a chronological biography interspersed with a liberal amount of spoken quotes of HPL. Also, there are interviews with Stuart Gordon, amateur filmmakers, fans, and role playing groups.
On the whole, I think the documentary is successful because, after watching it, I wanted to return to the fiction of Lovecraft. Running Time: 82 minutes Chapter Selections: Intro/Beginnings Amateur/Lord Dunsany Mother/Sonia NY vs.