![]() ![]() This particular letter was the beginning of a curious friendship, which changed the course of Barlow’s life, and Lovecraft’s, too-though almost no one who reads Lovecraft these days knows anything about it. ![]() It’s estimated that he wrote more than fifty thousand letters in his relatively short lifetime (he died at the age of forty-six). A week later, Lovecraft wrote back, as he nearly always did. He wanted to know when Lovecraft had started writing, what he was working on now, and whether the Necronomicon-a tome of forbidden knowledge that appears in several Lovecraft tales-was a real book. Lovecraft’s stories about monstrous beings from beyond the stars were appearing regularly in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, and Barlow was a fan. On June 18, 1931, a young man named Robert Barlow mailed a letter to the horror writer H. Photograph courtesy John Hay Library, Brown University Thus began a fertile and unusual relationship. In 1931, a young fan named Robert Barlow wrote to the weird-fiction writer. ![]()
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