Some anniversaries for 2021:<\/p>\n
50 years:<\/strong> 1971<\/p>\n Death of August Derleth.<\/p>\n Derleth’s book HPL<\/em>, “Biographic Notes on Lovecraft”, a first try at assembling a coherent biography, following Moskowitz’s 1960 bio-article and Shea’s 1966 memoir.<\/p>\n S.T. Joshi dates 1971 as the beginning point of scholarly Lovecraft Studies.<\/p>\n Death of Virgil Finlay, the key early Lovecraft illustrator.<\/p>\n Death of C. M. Eddy, Lovecraft’s Providence friend and collaborator (“The Loved Dead” and others).<\/p>\n 1971 Ballantine U.S. paperback edition of The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath<\/em>. Immensely popular, goes through 31 printings.<\/p>\n 75 years:<\/strong> 1946<\/p>\n First translation of Lovecraft to Spanish, the substantial book The Lurker at the Threshold<\/em>, Buenos Aires, Editorial Molino, 1946.<\/p>\n The Acolyte<\/em> completes its 14 issue run in 1946.<\/p>\n 100 years:<\/strong> 1921<\/p>\n “The Outsider”. “In Defence of Dagon” (essay).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some anniversaries for 2021: 50 years: 1971 Death of August Derleth. Derleth’s book HPL, “Biographic Notes on Lovecraft”, a first …<\/p>\n
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\n“The Music of Erich Zann”.<\/p>\n