This is what Home Brew looked like. Lovecraft wrote the serial ‘shockers’ “The Lurking Fear” and “Herbert West – Reanimator” for the magazine, at the request of the editor who was also a fellow ‘amateur journalist’. It was a short-lived attempt to break out of amateur journalism and make a ‘free speech’ magazine that had some income and ‘crowd appeal’.
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18 Monday Aug 2014
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Clark Ashton Smith provided the art for “The Lurking Fear” – his first commercial art sale – which is noted for how some of the flora is suggestive of genitalia.
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