Lovecraft-Price correspondence 1932-1937

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Lovecraft-Price correspondence 1932-1937

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The microfilmed collection contains correspondence exchanged between Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Edgar Hoffmann Price on literary matters, between October 3, 1932 and November 11, 1937.

1 roll of microfilm (.25 cubic feet)

eng,

University of Minnesota Libraries. Literary Manuscripts Collection, Manuscripts Division. [mss]

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SNAC Resource ID: 6617981

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Price, E. Hoffmann

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E. Hoffmann Price was born in California, educated at the US Military Academy, and served in World War I in the US Cavalry. He turned to full time writing in the 1930s and was a prolific writer of pulp fiction including adventure, western, and weird fiction. He was friends with many writers of the great pulp magazine fiction era, including H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth. Price died in 1988. From the guide to the E. Hoffmann Price papers, undated, (University of Minnesota Librarie...

Lovecraft, H.P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937

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H. P. Lovecraft is widely considered the twentieth century's most important writer of supernatural horror fiction. Forging a unique niche within the horror genre, he created what became known as "weird tales," stories containing a distinctive blend of dreamlike imagery, Gothic terror, and elaborate concocted mythology. During his lifetime Lovecraft published work almost exclusively in pulp magazines, and only after his death in 1937 did he receive a wide readership and critical ana...