James Machin, a PhD student at Birkbeck, University of London, while working on a thesis on early weird fiction, circa 1880 to 1914, has located a letter dated February 2, 1924. H. P. Lovecraft wrote it to J. C. Henneberger, the publisher of Weird Tales. Soon after, Henneberger offered Lovecraft the editorship of his Chicago-based pulp magazine.
Lovecraft’s letter was found in a folder of theatrical ephemera in the Ransom Center archives at the University of Texas at Austin. You can read about the find by clicking here.
PulpFest 2015 will explore Lovecraft’s relationship with “The Unique Magazine” as part of its celebration of the 125th birthday of the 20th century’s leading practitioner of weird fiction.
Many thanks to the late Sam Gafford for highlighting this recent rediscovery. Sam often wrote about William Hope Hodgson, author of the novels The Night Land, The House on the Borderland, The Ghost Pirates, and The Boats of the “Glen Carrig,” at https://williamhopehodgson.wordpress.com/.
