Tag Archives: HPL

Pulp Smashes Elitism

I keep reflecting on the pulps. ERB and REH, HPL and so on, to varying degrees of literacy, wrote what has become the basis for genre pioneered by Poe and a few others. Flaws and all, those pulp writers pounded … Continue reading

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REH, HPL, ERB, & Me

  Started reading a collection of Robert E. Howard stories and must say, he was better than I’d recalled.  I’ve always liked his work, from Conan, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn and beyond.  The variety, depth, and the bravura … Continue reading

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Tempestuous Teapottery –

Tempestuous Teapottery – Should an artist’s flaws count against the art? Should an image, a grotesque caricature really, of HPL be dumped because the man himself was a racist? Is hate by association sufficient? Ask the same of Nazi documentariste … Continue reading

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