In the days before email, writers like H.P. Lovecraft, went to great lengths to correspond with their readers.http://t.co/QaGIiyBy
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Capt. Xerox
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75 years after his death, horror writer H.P. Lovecraft continues to fascinate readers. http://t.co/8bgrsQDw
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Taking a look at the geology of H.P. Lovecraft’s Mountains of Madness. http://t.co/IADEp8iL
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Something to listen to on Halloween – a podcast reading of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu. http://t.co/1qpL0I1b
Lazarus 1:32 pm on January 14, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
After further clarification, it was all a joke:
http://boingboing.net/2013/01/13/interview-by-postcard-that-hp.html
(This is what happens all to often on the internet these days. People surf from one site to another and before you know it someone is reading a site like “The Onion”, taking it for real news, passing it onto their ‘friends’ and before you know it it goes viral.)
Capt. Xerox 3:36 pm on January 14, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
My B.S. detector is usually pretty good at spotting those things, but that one fooled me! After having read L. Sprague de Camp’s excellent biography of Lovecraft, I learned to what great lengths he went to correspond with fans so this seemed completely plausible. I guess that’s the best way to get people to swallow this kind of thing.
avdezign (Cosmic) 5:44 am on January 17, 2013 Permalink | Log in to Reply
B.S experts are getting good online, I was fooled a few times now.