One of the joys of archival research in the Ransom Center is wandering
off-track to follow hunches or simply indulge one’s curiosity. The
subject of my thesis is early weird fiction, and while the bulk of my
time at the Center was spent investigating material from the 1890s
relating to Arthur Machen, M. P. Shiel, and John Buchan, I couldn’t
resist looking up H. P. Lovecraft in the old card catalogue. I found a
single item listed on one index card: a letter from Lovecraft to J. C.
Henneberger. The name was a familiar one: Henneberger was the publisher
who established
Weird Tales magazine in the 1920s, the pulp
title that is remembered today for publishing several of H. P.
Lovecraft’s most influential stories.
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