As we turn the year and start to look toward 2024, what anniversaries might one want to start preparing for?<\/p>\n
Here are a few. Perhaps Tentaclii<\/em> readers can add more?<\/p>\n 1944: 80 years<\/strong><\/p>\n Winfield Townley Scott and others. Lovecraft’s likely long-term influence starts to be felt.<\/p>\n * Scott, W. T. “Howard Lovecraft’s Lengthening Shade.” The Providence Sunday Journal<\/em>, 109, No. 47 (21st May 1944). 1924: 100 years<\/strong><\/p>\n * Lovecraft leaves for New York City, marries Sonia. Begins his ‘New York exile’. 1874: 150 years<\/strong><\/p>\n * Births of Charles Fort, Houdini. As we turn the year and start to look toward 2024, what anniversaries might one want to start preparing for? …<\/p>\n
\n* Scott, W. T., “His Own Most Fantastic Creation : Howard Phillips Lovecraft” (1944).
\n* Fritz Leiber, Jr.,, “A Literary Copernicus”, Acolyte<\/em>, Fall 1944.
\n* U.S. soldiers carry “The Dunwich Horror” into and across Europe, in Derleth’s special military paperback edition.
\n* Edmund ‘always dismally wrong’ Wilson attempts to blast Lovecraft’s emerging reputation, in The New Yorker<\/em> in May 1944.<\/p>\n
\n* Lovecraft completes “Imprisoned with the Pharoahs” for Houdini.
\n* Lovecraft writes “The Shunned House”.
\n* The ‘Kalem Club’ attains its recognisable form.
\n* Publication of “The Rats in the Walls”.<\/p>\n
\n* Lovecraft’s father all-but vanishes from the historical record. He turns up again in 1889 for his Boston marriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"