{"id":9590,"date":"2013-11-02T18:50:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T15:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=9590"},"modified":"2013-11-02T18:50:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T15:50:33","slug":"lovecraft-postcard-aug-1933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/11\/02\/lovecraft-postcard-aug-1933\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft postcard, Aug 1933"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lovecraft postcard on offer on the Spanish eBay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Mailed Providence, 10.30pm, 11th Aug 1933. To Charles D. Hornig, on the subject of reprinting a long (“would make a small book”) article formerly published by Paul W. Cook, presumably Supernatural Horror in Literature<\/em>. Lovecraft is suggesting he might revise it for its second publication in a new fanzine. The postcard ends with congraulations on Hornig’s new “congenial” job as a staffer with Gernsback.<\/p>\n

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Essential Solitude: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth<\/em> (p.599) mentions the same address…<\/p>\n

“The new weird magazine \u2014 Fantasy Fan<\/em>, 137 W. Grand St., Elizabeth, N.J. \u2014 offers an 18 months’ subscription for a dollar. Klarkash-Ton & I are contributing old stuff \u2014 no pay, but good way to get…”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So this must be the then seventeen year old Charles D[erwin] Hornig (1916-1999). He was a hard-left socialist who edited the Fantasy Fan<\/em> magazine (it had an 18 month run, to sixty subscribers, Sept 1933-Feb 1935). His magazine contained a column called “The Boiling Point”, which published heated disputes between Lovecraft and others. Fantasy Fan<\/em> also published a revised version of Supernatural Horror in Literature<\/em>, Oct 1933-Feb 1935, although the zine closed before the serialisation was complete. FF<\/em> also provided an outlet for four of the Fungi from Yuggoth<\/em> poems.<\/p>\n

Hornig was also on the Gernsback staff as editor of Wonder Stories<\/em> from circa summer 1933 until circa May 1936. Later Silberkliet’s Science Fiction<\/em> magazine was “edited rather stodgily by Charles D. Hornig” (Damon Knight, The Futurians<\/em>, p.10). Hornig was known for being heavy-handed with his rejection letters… “Apparently Hornig got a real charge out of rejecting stories” (Heavy Planet and Other Science Fiction Stories<\/em>, Milton A. Rothman and \u200eDarrell Schweitzer, p.305).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lovecraft postcard on offer on the Spanish eBay. Mailed Providence, 10.30pm, 11th Aug 1933. To Charles D. Hornig, on the …<\/p>\n

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