{"id":4058,"date":"2015-05-20T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/?p=4058"},"modified":"2025-10-10T15:06:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:06:50","slug":"fanzine-focus-windy-city-pulp-stories-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/pulpsuperfan\/2015\/05\/20\/fanzine-focus-windy-city-pulp-stories-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Fanzine focus: ‘Windy City Pulp Stories’ #15"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"'WindyWell, another Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention<\/a> for 2015 has come and gone, and with it we get another convention program book: Windy City Pulp Stories<\/a><\/em> #15.<\/p>\n

This year’s theme is H.P. Lovecraft<\/strong>, the celebrated pulp horror author, along with Street & Smith’s comic line. It’s the 125th birthday for Lovecraft, and the 75th anniversary for the S&S comics. Most of the contents focus on HPL.<\/p>\n

We get a large selection of articles on Lovecraft. From David Keller<\/strong> are two articles reprinted from the 1940s. The first is a good, general article on Lovecraft, and the second is on his astronomical notebook.<\/p>\n

Author F. Paul Wilson<\/strong> (Repairman Jack<\/strong>, etc) remembers “My First Lovecraft,” and his experience reading “The Thing at the Doorstep.” Gene Christie<\/strong> looks at “Collecting Lovecraft: A Gallery,” with the covers of early sources for Lovecraft works.<\/p>\n

“Lovecraft and Pseudo-Mathematics” by Robert Weinberg<\/strong> takes a look at Lovecraft’s use of pseudo-scientific thought in his writings. Then we see “How Great Britain ‘Discovered’ H.P. Lovecraft.” “The Call of Khalk\u2019ru and Other Speculations” by Will Murray<\/strong> investigates the origin of Khalku’ru in A. Merritt<\/strong>‘s works.<\/p>\n

S.T. Joshi<\/strong>, Lovecraft expert and editor, examines “Lovecraft and Weird Tales<\/em>.” Doug Ellis<\/strong> examines “A Lovecraft Rarity”: Lovecraft’s draft card from WWI. Weinberg, again, takes a look at an unusual Arkham House<\/a> book in “The Truth About The Shunned House Hardcover.” From August Derleth<\/strong>, whose Arkham House helped preserve Lovecraft and other authors from obscurity, we get “The Arkham House Story,” which first appeared in 1952.<\/p>\n

There are a pair of fiction sections. The first reprints a trio of Lovecraft short stories: “The Doom That Came to Sarnath,” “Celepha\u00efs,” and “Herbert West \u2014 Reanimator.” The next has fiction influenced by Lovecraft with “Lovecraft: A Lasting Influence” by Tom Roberts<\/strong>, and two by Weinberg: \u201cChant\u201d and \u201cSydney Taine vs. The Slime God.\u201d<\/p>\n

We then get a trio of articles about art and Lovecraft that includes on by Will Murray on “The Art of H.P. Lovecraft,” with some of Lovecraft’s sketches.<\/p>\n

For the Street & Smith comics, we get a pair of articles, including one by Anthony Tollin<\/strong>, who is behind Sanctum Books<\/a>, which is reprinting the Street & Smith pulp heroes (and including some of the comics in them as well). Tollin’s article gives an excellent overview of the entire history and line of S&S’s comic books. The second article focuses on their sports comics before looking at their lesser titles.<\/p>\n

It’s another great collection of articles and materials. Anyone interested in Lovecraft should get this collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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