A Tribute to Lovecraft
Robert W. Lowndes, of Stamford, Connecticut, writes: "Being, in all likelihood, one of the last followers of H. P. Lovecraft's magnificent work in the fantasy field to enter into correspondence with him, it may seem somewhat strange for me to say that it is as though I had lost a beloved friend of many years' acquaintance. Yet this is the case, and those who knew him far better than I did can understand my feelings: there is consolation of a sort in the thought that if I, who knew him but through the media of two letters and a few of his tales, am grieved with the knowledge that there can be no more friendly, wise, generous, and inspiring letters from him, what must be the feelings of those who had been corresponding with him regularly over a period of years, or who knew him personally? As he himself wrote of Robert E. Howard, only a few short months ago, weird and fantastic fiction will be terribly impoverished by his passing; as E. Hoffmann Price wrote of Howard, the personal loss of H. P. Lovecraft to those who knew him, and those who corresponded with him, dwarfs all else into insignificance. How well recalled is the first Lovecraft tale I read (in my first issue of Weird Tales at that—October, 1931): The Strange High House in the Mist. Then, a gradual but steady increase in my little fund of tales and novelettes from his pen until he rose to undisputed supremacy in my affections. I often dreamed of meeting him some day; hoped to write to him. . . . I finally ventured a letter. What a moment it was for me when I saw a letter in return! His first paragraph assured me that I need have no hesitation in writing to him; then, after putting me at ease, he launched forth into discussion of the several points I had raised, in that friendly, acute, and understanding way which others know so much better than I do. He had the unique faculty of making a worshipper feel that what one wrote to him was as interesting as what he had to offer in reply. Weird Tales has printed the majority of Lovecraft's published works, I believe, but he is not well-known outside of the circle of Weird Tales readers and fantasy enthusiasts. Can we readers hope that eventually someone will collect all of his works and publish them in a single volume? What a treasure for the lovers of the weird
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