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H.P. Lovecraft: A Biography

June 18,

Horror writer icon H.P. Lovecraft was obscure in his life, but is well-known today, and arguably products of his fruitful imagination outpace his name in recognition- he could hardly have foreseen the image of his terrible elder god Cthulhu becoming chibi-fied into dolls, for instance, or for his references to become so common in gaming culture. Perhaps, as a lifelong pessimist, he could have seen coming the way his name has become synonymous with racism in speculative fiction and nerd culture more generally. Ironically, if he didn’t become so well-loved by a fervent cult in the mid-twentieth century, no one would have published his voluminous correspondence, which contains much stronger and more persistent racist content than do his stories (which could be pretty racist but not much more than was common in pulps at the time).

I’m reading Lovecraft for my upcoming birthday lecture, which juxtaposes the writer with crime writer Dennis Lehane and discusses both as promulgators of a genre vision of New England. Truth be told, chain-reading Lovecraft stories gets pretty old, pretty quickly- he’s best taken one at a time. I also “knew” about him and his various reputations, good, bad and indifferent, from my previous immersion in nerd cultur

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Lyon Sprague de Camp (27 November – 6 November ), usually referred to as L. Sprague de Camp and who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Lyman R. Lyon, was an American writer. He wrote science fiction, fantasy, and biographical works, particularly of genre authors; he is the author of Lovecraft: A Biography (Doubleday, ).

Although he did not coin the term, de Camp is credited with the first usage of "extraterrestrial" as a noun with the meaning of "alien life," and with coining the abbreviation "E.T." He did so in the first part of his two-part article "Design for Life", which was published in May in Astounding Science Fiction magazine.

De Camp worked for many years editing and writing fiction in continuation of Robert E. Howard's Conan cycle. He edited a series of anthology publications through the s that renewed and maintained interest in high fantasy and sword and sorcery stories, old and new. His editorial work also spread the works to new audiences. He also worked editorially and wrote with Lin Carter.

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Born	Lyon Sprague moment Camp ()November 27, New Dynasty City, U.S.
Died	November 6, () (aged&#;92) Plano, Texas, U.S.
Pen name	Lyman R. Metropolis (one story)^[1] J. Wellington Wells^[2]
Occupation	Novelist short story author essayist historian
Nationality	American
Period	–
Genre	Science fiction, originality, alternate description, historical fabrication, history

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