J. J. Miller and I had some exchanges a few days ago about the writer H. P. Lovecraft. This is one of those topics that brings in bagfuls of e-mail, I don’t know why. Lovecraft has a huge following. I just posted one of the best of those emails to Secular Right, since it’s a bit long for the Corner on such a peripheral topic.

Incidentally, several readers questioned whether the Lovecraft biography I said I’d read some decades ago was really by August Derleth. Was it perhaps actually L. Sprague de Camp’s 1975 bio?

Possibly. I lost the book long since. 1975 seems a bit late; my total-immersion scifi/fantasy phase ended about ten years before that. I picked up the odd book post-phase, though (and still do — I have just recently discovered Vernor Vinge) . . .