A further 1937 edition of the Amateur Correspondent has appeared on Archive.org. I had previously noted two others from 1937. This was, of course, the period of time in which news of Lovecraft’s death was slowly percolating through a fandom that was still decades away from being connected at hyper-speed by digital technologies. Amateur Correspondent, September-October 1937 has a page by R.W Sherman. He talks of the commentators who had formerly derided and shunned Lovecraft while alive — and yet on the master’s death seemed to have suddenly converted themselves into admirers.
Deathbed conversions
06 Wednesday Feb 2019
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