Today, April 27, is the birthday of Frank Belknap Long (1901-1994) .It’s the end of the semester, and I’ve been slammed the last couple of weeks. (Apologies to those who commented on earlier posts for the delay in approving the comments. I just did that.) I hadn’t realized it had been about three weeks since the last time I posted something. I’ve been busy grading exams and wokring on a cople of fiction proojects.
Long was a protege of H. P. Lovecraft. In a way, he never completely got out of Lovecraft’s shadow. He was a fine writer in his own right.Fortunately, Wildside Press had published at elast three Megapacks of his work.
He wrote under a variety of pen names. I want to read some of the gothics he wrote in the late sixites and early seventies under the name Lyda Belknap Long. Has anyone read those.?
Never read those novels, or even seen them but I’ve heard them referenced. I first encountered Long’s work in the 1990s when I stumbled across the “Masters Of Darkness” series edited by Etchison. Right after that I found an ex-library copy of “The Early Long.” At least one of his stories made it to a “Best Of” horror anthology in the ’70s. Nice to see you back, Keith!
Thanks, Jeff. It’s good to be back. I hadn’t realized how long it had been since I posted.