tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281203981310562736.post9056304492769986242..comments2023-07-21T16:06:34.052-05:00Comments on On An Underwood No. 5: A Lost Weird Anthology, 1931-1933 by Bobby DerieTodd B. Vickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09458339485515819645noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281203981310562736.post-74973084184733060992018-02-04T20:02:51.938-06:002018-02-04T20:02:51.938-06:00The (single) letter was transcribed by Glenn Lord ...The (single) letter was transcribed by Glenn Lord in his EOD zine, Zarfhaana, no. 7 (August 1976)Douglas A. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281203981310562736.post-40871299516484007762018-02-02T10:49:33.756-06:002018-02-02T10:49:33.756-06:00Doug: Neat. I don't think I've ever seen t...Doug: Neat. I don't think I've ever seen those quotes - have those letters been published?greyirishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08613850313903205301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281203981310562736.post-87039567029464919842018-02-01T23:06:12.905-06:002018-02-01T23:06:12.905-06:00Doubtless the contents of this proposed anthology ...Doubtless the contents of this proposed anthology changed over time. But at one datable point, in a letter from Henry Whitehead to E. Hoffmann Price, Whitehead wrote: "It will give me great pleasure to contribute a story for the collection and also to compose the preface or foreword which you have in mind unless you think someone else could do it better" (letter of 20 May 1932). In the same letter, Whitehead mentions "The story you have in mind is, I think, one entitled THE LIPS" [which appeared in the September 1929 issue of Weird Tales]. Whitehead also suggested that Price and Mashburn read several other of his stories before settling on THE LIPS. And he noted that "I think that, as much as I should like to to the foreword, in the interest of the book you would do no better than to ask H.P. Lovecraft . . . his name would be a better drawing-card than mine." Also, I remember reading somewhere that Whitehead had tried to interest his editor at Putnam's [who published his juvenile, Pinkie at Camp Cherokee, in 1931] in the anthology, to no avail. Obviously that would have to have been between the above-quoted letter of May 1932 and Whitehead's death on 23 November 1932.Douglas A. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281203981310562736.post-60608941771299262702018-01-29T15:08:11.922-06:002018-01-29T15:08:11.922-06:00HPL mentions "The Space-Eaters" several ...HPL mentions "The Space-Eaters" several times in his published letters. Trawling through the indices, I've got: ES 1.106, 207, 275, 366, 368; DS 375; MF 41n4; OFF 266; MTS 166, 234; LJVS 275; LCM 256, 353; LRB 56, 142n1, 242, 253n1, 315; SL 2.171-172, 5.209, 267.<br /><br />Most of these are quite brief. There's probably more in his unpublished letters to Long, which are I believe currently held by L. W. Currey. greyirishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08613850313903205301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7281203981310562736.post-24853742225952064852018-01-29T05:03:00.569-06:002018-01-29T05:03:00.569-06:00That's fascinating, and am I right to think th...That's fascinating, and am I right to think that Lovecraft's recommendation of "The Space-Eaters" is the only surviving reference he made to the tale? One would have thought he might have more to say elsewhere, given that it stars him and does away with him, much like "The Shambler from the Stars".Ramsey Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01212350036758421940noreply@blogger.com