Another great enabler of horror and fantastic fiction was Arkham House, whose original editions are now collectors items. If you can find "Arkham's Masters of Horror" there's a really interesting introduction about August Derleth and the others who formed a sort of cadre against the mainstream and saved each other's work from (total) obscurity.
> Energized by this playful exchange, Bloch went on to write “Psycho,” the 1959 novel that Alfred Hitchcock turned into a 1960 film.
This makes it sound like a cause-and-effect relationship between exchanging stories with Lovecraft and writing Psycho 25ish years later. Clearly he was interested in the macabre if he submitted a story to Weird Tales as a kid. Are the two things at all related?
"After eating a pastrami sandwich at Lou's Diner, Michael Jordan went on to win six NBA championships"
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[ 5.0 ms ] story [ 31.3 ms ] threadThis makes it sound like a cause-and-effect relationship between exchanging stories with Lovecraft and writing Psycho 25ish years later. Clearly he was interested in the macabre if he submitted a story to Weird Tales as a kid. Are the two things at all related?
"After eating a pastrami sandwich at Lou's Diner, Michael Jordan went on to win six NBA championships"