{"id":49,"date":"2015-07-14T20:42:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T20:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/?p=49"},"modified":"2026-05-13T19:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:12:17","slug":"case5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/case5\/","title":{"rendered":"Case 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<nav style=\"font-size:1.1em;font-style:normal;font-weight:600;\" class=\"has-text-color has-vivid-red-color is-responsive has-text-decoration-underline wp-block-navigation is-layout-flex wp-container-core-navigation-is-layout-999a5efb wp-block-navigation-is-layout-flex\" aria-label=\"Menu\" \n\t\t data-wp-interactive=\"core\/navigation\" data-wp-context='{\"overlayOpenedBy\":{\"click\":false,\"hover\":false,\"focus\":false},\"type\":\"overlay\",\"roleAttribute\":\"\",\"ariaLabel\":\"Menu\"}'><button aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-label=\"Open menu\" class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-container-open\" 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aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Case 5<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-4 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/1_bmdr425250_01md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" data-id=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/1_bmdr425250_01md.jpg\" alt=\"A handwritten manuscript of the Lurking Fear\" class=\"wp-image-160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/1_bmdr425250_01md.jpg 400w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/1_bmdr425250_01md-300x225.jpg 300w, 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src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/3_bdr425243_01md.jpg\" alt=\"A handwritten document\" class=\"wp-image-163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/3_bdr425243_01md.jpg 400w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/3_bdr425243_01md-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/3_bdr425243_01md-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/3_bdr425243_01md-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/3_bdr425243_01md-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/4_HPL2015ill003_1md.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" data-id=\"164\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/4_HPL2015ill003_1md.jpg\" alt=\"A drawing of a monstrous green humanoid assisting Abdul Alhazred in writing the Necronomicon\" class=\"wp-image-164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/4_HPL2015ill003_1md.jpg 400w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/4_HPL2015ill003_1md-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/4_HPL2015ill003_1md-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/4_HPL2015ill003_1md-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/lovecraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/07\/4_HPL2015ill003_1md-200x150.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #9a3641\">\u2026 as a kid I had the usual childhood fears of several things: 1. death, 2. life. \u2026<br>\nI was a little bit suspicious about what happened to you if you did too much breathing. *<\/span><\/em><br>\nRobert Bloch speaking at the 1st World Fantasy Convention, 1975<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inspired by the stories he was reading in Weird Tales and other pulp magazines, Robert Bloch created his own illustrations of the creatures in Lovecraft\u2019s fiction and sent them to his mentor as tokens of his admiration. The drawings in this case are Bloch\u2019s interpretations of two stories Lovecraft wrote several years before their correspondence began, demonstrating the teenager\u2019s fascination with the author\u2019s full body of work. Bloch\u2019s illustrations portray important details of the stories he is representing. In The Lurking Fear, Bloch depicts the ape-like menace of Lovecraft\u2019s story with a multi-colored face\u2014perhaps his interpretation of the heterochromia revealed in the story\u2019s conclusion. With Abdul Alhazred writing the Necronomicon, Bloch creates a detailed view of this foundational scene in Lovecraft\u2019s fiction, when the \u201cmad poet of Sana\u00e1, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade caliphs, circa 700 A.D\u201d drafts the arcane tome of evil and magic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Artwork was of great importance to Lovecraft and many of the members of his circle.  Some were practicing artists, like Clark Ashton Smith, others considered it more of a hobby. Lovecraft himself would regularly send sketches with his letters or decorate the pages and envelopes. Correspondence within the circle often included discussions of the latest cover art and story illustrations for the pulp magazines they were reading. In his letters to Bloch, Lovecraft even suggested submitting certain drawings for possible publication, and it was common for him to praise the young correspondent\u2019s artwork more than his fiction when writing to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen I was a boy, back in Arkham, I too lived through the Great Depression\u2013as far as I\u2019m concerned, it wasn\u2019t all that great. When I got out of high school, by expulsion, I was faced with a terrible choice everyone had in the depression\u2014it was a dilemma\u2014to either work or starve. I decided to combine the two by becoming a writer. Now, it\u2019s, I am afraid, a matter of fairly common knowledge that H.P. Lovecraft was the one who was responsible for steering me in that direction. He turned me on and turned me loose. And I had a natural affinity for this sort of thing because <strong>as a kid I had the usual childhood fears of several things: 1. death, 2. life. <\/strong>I was afraid of \u2026 uhh \u2026 my \u2026 my fellow children. I was afraid of adults. <strong>I was a little bit suspicious about what happened to you if you did too much breathing.<\/strong> So \u2026 uh \u2026 and I knew, of course, that they were all against me. So, I merely encapsulated this information and began to distribute it to other people in the form of fiction. My own paranoid fantasies were projected and exorcised, if you will. I found that I could exorcise these fears by giving into them in story form, and I found also that apparently that some readers got a degree of exorcism.\u201d<br>Robert Bloch speaking at the 1st World Fantasy Convention, 1975<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>\nCase Contents:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft (Providence, Rhode Island 1890-1937 Providence, Rhode Island)<br><em>The Lurking Fear<\/em><\/strong><br>Circa 1922 November<br>Typescript manuscript (twelve page typescript with autograph title page)<br>John Hay Library. Howard P. Lovecraft Collection, 1894-1971. <a href=\"http:\/\/riamco.org\/render.php?eadid=US-RPB-mslovecraft&amp;view=title\" target=\"_blank\">MS.Lovecraft<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Robert Bloch (Chicago, Illinois 1917-1994 Los Angeles, California)<br><em>The Lurking Fear<\/em><\/strong><br>1933 December 25<br>Crayon on cardboard<br>John Hay Library. Star Collection. <a href=\"http:\/\/josiah.brown.edu\/record=b5191939~S7\" target=\"_blank\">RARE 3-S PS3523.O82 Z98 L7<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft (Providence, Rhode Island 1890-1937 Providence, Rhode Island)<br><em>History of the Necronomicon<\/em><\/strong><br>Before 1927 November 27<br>Autograph manuscript (two pages on one sheet)<br>John Hay Library. Howard P. Lovecraft Collection, 1894-1971. <a href=\"http:\/\/riamco.org\/render.php?eadid=US-RPB-mslovecraft&amp;view=title\" target=\"_blank\">MS.Lovecraft<\/a>, <span style=\"color: #6e6e6e\">First page of a two-page manuscript written on a typed letter signed by William Bryant.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Robert Bloch (Chicago, Illinois 1917-1994 Los Angeles, California)<br><em>Abdul Alhazred writing the Necronomicon<\/em><\/strong><br>Circa 1933-1937<br>Crayon on cardboard<br>John Hay Library. 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