Advance notice on some anniversaries for 2023…<\/p>\n
50 years (1973):<\/strong><\/p>\n (The year Lovecraft broke through to a mass audience)<\/em><\/p>\n “Over a million paperback [Ballantine] editions of Lovecraft’s work had apparently been sold in the USA by June 1973” (Joshi, Time<\/em> magazine).<\/p>\n In the UK, the Panther paperbacks of Lovecraft (Dagon<\/em>, The Lurking Fear<\/em>, Lurker at the Threshold<\/em>).<\/p>\n Lovecraft’s Supernatural Horror in Literature<\/em> (as a popular cheap paperback Dover edition, 1973).<\/p>\n First hoax Necronomicon<\/em>.<\/p>\n Esoteric Order of Dagon… “an amateur press organization formed by a group of Lovecraft devotees in 1973”.<\/p>\n Dirk W. Mosig begins writing on Lovecraft.<\/p>\n Wilfred B. Talman, “The Normal Lovecraft” (1973).<\/p>\n The Revised H.P. Lovecraft Bibliography<\/em> (1973).<\/p>\n 80 years (1943):<\/strong><\/p>\n The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath<\/em> published (1943, Arkham House, in Beyond the Wall of Sleep<\/em>).<\/p>\n The Commonplace Book<\/em> published (1943, Arkham House, in Beyond the Wall of Sleep<\/em>).<\/p>\n Publication of “the first bibliography of HPL, by Francis T. Laney and William H. Evans (1943)” (Joshi).<\/p>\n 100 years (1923):<\/strong><\/p>\n Lovecraft completes his run of his amateur journal The Conservative<\/em>.<\/p>\n Publishes “The Lurking Fear” shocker serial in Home Brew<\/em>.<\/p>\n Weird Tales<\/em> founded.<\/p>\n Lovecraft’s first appearance in a pulp magazine (Weird Tales<\/em>).<\/p>\n “The Rats in the Walls”, “The Festival”.<\/p>\n 120 years (1903):<\/strong><\/p>\n The Rhode Island Journal of Astronomy<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Advance notice on some anniversaries for 2023… 50 years (1973): (The year Lovecraft broke through to a mass audience) “Over …<\/p>\n
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