Alternative careers of H.P. Lovecraft:<\/p>\n
* Paid research assistant to Harry Houdini: journalistic debunker of Spiritualism and other nonsense.<\/p>\n
* Editor of Weird Tales<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n * New York advertising man, specialising in copywriting.<\/p>\n * Architectural historian, conservator and building restoration consultant.<\/p>\n * Astronomy assistant at Brown University.<\/p>\n * Paid researcher and writer for hire, for ‘our town’s history’ books. <\/p>\n * Travel writer, of practical guidebooks leavened with personal anecdote and curious local folklore.<\/p>\n * Part-time book cataloguer for Kirk’s expanding bookshop chain.<\/p>\n * Head press publicist for Sonia’s successful chain of New York hat shops.<\/p>\n * Archaeologist in the American southwest.<\/p>\n * Writer of a radio comedy-horror show.<\/p>\n * Purveyor of small boxed mineral and rock crystal samples, via the back pages ads of Popular Science<\/em> (he owned a quarry).<\/p>\n * Inventor of a means of typing a story without actually typing.<\/p>\n * Populariser of the Patent Lovecraft Reducing Diet program.<\/p>\n * Dangerous Sea Life specialist of the U.S. Navy Archives at Boston Navy Yard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alternative careers of H.P. Lovecraft: * Paid research assistant to Harry Houdini: journalistic debunker of Spiritualism and other nonsense. * …<\/p>\n