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Lost HP Lovecraft work commissioned by Houdini escapes shackles of history
- bouvin 11y agoA fascinating aspect of being a Lovecraft fan is that, due to his impressive list of correspondents, whole collections of letters (and other materials) surface from time to time.
- NoGravitas 11y agoLovecraft had previously ghost-written an adventure story for Houdini, "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs", published in Weird Tales.
- krylon 11y agoI hope the text will be made available publicly by the buyer. Copyright obviously has expired, but whoever buys this text could keep it to her/himself.
- mkramlich 11y agoWhat if it contains secrets Man was not meant to know?
- acqq 11y agoIn short, the new found text is just 31 page, typed. And one whole chapter of that never finished book "was published in the 1966 book The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces." That book has an entry in Wikipedia even if there's less than 4000 copies of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Brotherhood_and_Other_Pieces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Brotherhood_and_Other... The picture in the article, if real, features exactly the title page of the already published chapter. "The Cancer of Superstition was previously known only in outline and through its first chapter. Houdini had asked Lovecraft in 1926 to ghostwrite the treatise exploring superstition, but the magician’s death later that year halted the project, as his wife did not wish to pursue it." And it's probably not written by Lovecraft but CM Eddy, as stated near the end of the article, "according to Lovecraft scholar ST Joshi."