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<\/a><\/p>\nOne such tidbit was a reproduction of the cover to an issue of Home Brew<\/i>, a magazine from the ’20s which had published a few of Lovecraft’s short stories. (Click on the image at right for a closer look.) I’d heard of the magazine, but I’d never seen a copy. I was very much taken by the taglines of Home Brew<\/i>, which states that it is “Full of Moonshine,” and promises “Peppy Stories – Pungent Jests – Piquant Gossip.” Home Brew<\/i> also claims to be “America’s Zippiest Pocket Magazine.” <\/p>\n
Ah, they just don’t make magazines like that anymore!<\/p>\n
Then there was this anecdote:<\/p>\n
After selling another tale rejected by Wright, “The Colour Out of Space,” to Hugo Gernsback’s archetypal science fiction magazine Amazing Stories<\/i> in 1927—and receiving a paltry fifth of a cent of a word for it after having to write several letters demanding payment—Lovecraft refused to offer his fiction to any magazine except Weird Tales<\/i>. However, he also resisted selling those stories turned down by Wright to other markets, even though many of them paid better rates: “I have a sort of dislike of sending in anything which has been once rejected,” Lovecraft admited.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
If we all lived by that sentiment, how little fiction would ever be published! I know that very few of my own stories sold the first time to market, and I suspect most writers who read this—except for the very lucky few, and I’m sure those will be very few indeed—would agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday, I received an advance copy of Necronomicon: The Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft, to be published by Orion, an imprint of Gollanz. The 1,008-page book will contain all of the writer’s major stories and short novels, including the entire Cthulhu mythos. I read the complete Lovecraft a long time ago, so there’s no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118,13],"class_list":["post-12924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-h-p-lovecraft","tag-old-magazines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12926,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12924\/revisions\/12926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}