Eccentric, Impractical Devils: The Letters of August Derleth and Clark Ashton Smith

Eccentric, Impractical Devils: The Letters of August Derleth and Clark Ashton SmithClark Ashton Smith came in touch with August Derleth in 1930, when, following H. P. Lovecraft's instruction, Smith forwarded to Derleth the manuscript of Lovecraft's tale, "The Whisperer in Darkness." Derleth replied immediately and included without preliminaries several stories of his own. Thus began a correspondence, a friendship, and ultimately a business relationship that extended more than thirty years. The letters of Clark Ashton Smith and

a respectable professor of political economy

as his tales appeared extensively in such pulp magazines as Wonder Stories and Amazing Stories and had a marked influence on the science fiction of his day

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Waugh looks at Lovecraft's seminal story "The Outsider" from a variety of critical perspectives

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When her father dies under mysterious circumstances

she decides to do the logical thing

Winner of the Wonderland Book Award - Best Novel

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