tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7352707165494509864.post661748432030666092..comments2023-05-08T15:58:15.116-07:00Comments on Dr. Bob Curran: A Haunted MindNew Page Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14957512123024851754noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7352707165494509864.post-47845162387218664012012-01-26T11:47:16.974-08:002012-01-26T11:47:16.974-08:00I'm a professional author of Lovecraft weird f...I'm a professional author of Lovecraft weird fiction, and I have an intense interest in books that present their "take" on Lovecraft's life and aesthetics. I am, I confess, rather defensive in my attitude that Lovecraft was in fact a very normal person (compared to any of the rest of us) but one with an extraordinary imagination and a genius for expressing that dark imagination in works of poetry and prose. So I am prepared to hate your book, which I shall order from Amazon, in which the title suggest that you will investigate an author's dark and twisted mind. It seems, from what I've seen, that one of the selling points for the book is that Lovecraft's reality (his life, his thought) was as strange and dark as his brilliant fiction, and that is an absurd falsehood. Oneneed only read his published letters to see how normal Lovecraft was as a person, or read the remembrances of Lovecraft in the Arkham House book, LOVECRAFT REMEMBERED (1998, edited by Peter Cannon). Perhaps your publisher wanted to use the myth of Lovecraft's eccentricities as a way of selling the book, but I find that this is an unfair practice and is belied by biographical facts, as found in S. T. Joshi's outstanding two-volume biography of HPL, I AM PROVIDENCE. I look forward to reading your book, but I am prepared to write a scathing (although hopefully not abusive) review at Amazon!<br />yr obt Srvt,<br />W. H. Pugmire, Esq.w. h. pugmire, esq.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06058736777591351323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7352707165494509864.post-19479695925601620572011-10-06T01:13:19.001-07:002011-10-06T01:13:19.001-07:00I've been checking obsessively for The World&#...I've been checking obsessively for The World's Creepiest Places for a couple weeks now, and yes, it IS indeed on our sales floor already. In fact, it was by looking at the back of the book that I found the url for this blog.<br /><br />I'm very much looking forward to this new vampire book as well. I cannot get enough of mirror lore (really, there isn't enough!), and I'm very intrigued by your mention, in an earlier post, of a Latvian story with a vampire mirror. When that book comes out, I think that's the first part I'm going to look at.The Imperfecthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05644261188204319828noreply@blogger.com