![]() ![]() Or maybe, to paraphrase the famous line from Heraclitus, one never reads the same book twice, for it is not the same book, and you are not the same man. In others, I could remember the story, but courtesy of being better read now than I was then, I picked up rather more than I had previously. In some cases, it had been so long that I could remember nothing about the story. Plenty of time for me to grow and develop as a person, and to acquire greater contextual understanding of the works in question. In some cases a decade, in other cases nearly two decades. ![]() As such, for good or ill, they remain cornerstones of speculative fiction, having shaped the way the genre looks today. ![]() Two of those three are still well-known names among fantasy readers, but in the first half of the 1930s, all three were well-known contributors to Weird Tales. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. My October 2022 reading was marked by a reacquaintance with old-school Pulp Fantasy and Horror, specifically a binge through the collected works of H.P. ![]()
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