This is an odd reference in one of C. L. Moore’s letters, about a story never published: Well, have just received my first flat rejection from Wright. A harmless little fable about a sorcerer king of antediluvian times, his mysterious witch-queen and a time-traveler with a startling resemblance to a certain Mr. Smith whom I … Continue reading “Tryst in Time” (1936) by C. L. Moore→| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
C. L. Moore is an extremely gifted young woman of 25—a fact as well as fiction writer. Her stories are rivaled (now that Bob Howard is dead) only by Klarkash-Ton’s, & contain a highly unique element of convincing unreality—which could be still better but for a certain stereotyped romanticism & occasional concession to the pulp … Continue reading “Tree of Life” (1936) by C. L. Moore→| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
Glad you liked “The Dark Land”. I made the drawing a long time ago, and wrote the story so I could bring it in, with the addition of a cadaverous head and a swirl of vagueness.—C. L. Moore to H. P.…| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
And WT is publishing in July either the Smith story which Wright has entitled THE COLD GREY GOD, all about a lovely Venusian named Judai, or else a Jirel story we have been revising for months. He …| Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein
