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Since Crowley never heard of Lovecraft, I'd say that is a safe bet.

That is to reflect Dyer's mental state as he is writing in hindsight, thinking back on what he knows of the Old Ones and the shoggoths. AtMoM was one of the difficult sales, and the cuts made by Astounding (particularly in the last part, most likely to get a serial out of the way) made Lovecraft...

No, he didn't pad his stories. In fact, the longer the story, the more difficult it was to sell. If a story was long, it was because the subject required that treatment in his opinion, not to pad the word count.

It was published in Collected Essays 5.

There are several. Arkham House published Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith. Hippocampus Press has done CAS's letters to George Sterling, Samuel Loveman and August Derleth, with the letters to (and from) the Wandrei Brothers and R. H. Barlow forthcoming. Lovecraft's letters to Clark Ashton...

Yes, and? OF COURSE I know this. I repeat: Lovecraft did not write to maximise his word count. He wrote the number of words he felt was necessary to tell the story. Of those three novel-length tales, how many did he sell? How many of them did he ATTEMPT to sell?

Lovecraft did not write to maximise his word count. In fact, the increasing length of his later fiction made it harder to sell. He wrote the number of words he felt was necessary to thell the story.

[snip] There is no evidence that Lovecraft admired Francis Stevens (knew about her, yes). There is an admiring quote mistakenly attributed to Lovecraft, but this actually comes from Augustus T. Swift, a real individual and not a pseudonym of Lovecraft.

The Recognition of H. P. Lovecraft by S. T. Joshi, coming in November: https://www.hippocampuspress.com/h.-p.-lovecraft/about-hp-lovecraft/the-recognition-of-h.-p.-lovecraft-by-s.-t.-joshi?zenid=98vj2nn5g8id6e73ekvav0vaj4

Suggestions for Further Reading: I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft by S. T. Joshi Some Notes on a Nonentity by Sam Gafford & Jason C. Eckhardt Ave Atque Vale: Reminiscences of H. P. Lovecraft ed. S. T. Joshi & David E. Schultz Lovecraft Remembered ed. Peter H. Cannon

"Beneath the Moors"? In general, Lumley's stories are better than his Mythos novels.

Great news from S. T. Joshi:

Letters to E. Hoffmann Price and Richard F. Searight will be out in May from Hippocampus Press. Later this year the same press will release The Recognition of H. P. Lovecraft by S. T. Joshi, on the history of Lovecraft criticism.

Correct. It was the nature of the elite that changed over his life: He went from supporting rule by an aristocracy to supporting rule by a meritocracy. As I recall, he didn't vote in all elections. But in his last presidential election, he voted for Roosevelt and the New Deal.

HPL most definitely did not hate being around other people. He attended conventions of amateur journalists, hung out daily with his pals in New York during the time he lived there, travelled up and down the East Coast to visit his friends -- people would invite him to stay for weeks and even...

Hmm... That does sound like it might be "The Horror at Red Hook". Not back country, of course.

It is the opening of “The Picture in the House”.

The only story by Lovecraft in which a character is being drawn by a constellation is "The Dreams in the Witch House" although Gilman is not pulled off the earth by it. If that is not it, then you are misremembering it being a Lovecraft book.

No, HPL wasn't a Freemason, although his grandfather was.

I received Ave atque Vale a while back but have only now started to read it. Magnificent book! There is, to be sure, a great overlap with Lovecraft Remembered, but there are enough items that are unique to both to justify getting both, IMO. And there are a few nice illustrations, including notr...