• Frank Belknap Long Jr. (April 27, 1901 – January 3, 1994) was an American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic...
    40 KB (5,218 words) - 11:49, 23 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hounds of Tindalos
    created by Frank Belknap Long and later incorporated into the Cthulhu Mythos when it was codified by August Derleth. They first appeared in Long's short story...
    3 KB (354 words) - 10:39, 7 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ellery Queen
    Ellery Queen is a pseudonym created in 1928 by the American detective fiction writers Frederic Dannay (1905–1982) and Manfred Bennington Lee (1905–1971)...
    57 KB (6,659 words) - 10:34, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Azathoth
    nighted throne of the far daemon-sultan Azathoth." In a letter to Frank Belknap Long, Lovecraft ties this plot germ to Vathek, a supernatural novel by...
    13 KB (1,548 words) - 21:26, 4 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Christopher Lee
    Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee CBE CStJ (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor, singer, and military officer. In a career spanning more...
    108 KB (11,535 words) - 22:02, 22 July 2024
  • Lovecraft was evidently impressed by this tale, writing in a letter to Frank Belknap Long: "God! The Harbour-Master!!!" "Fishhead" is the story of a "human...
    42 KB (5,528 words) - 06:58, 18 July 2024
  • Her Birthday—March 16, 1925 [March 1925] Primavera [April 1925] To Frank Belknap Long on His Birthday [April? 1925] A Year Off [July 24, 1925] To an Infant...
    56 KB (5,183 words) - 10:50, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cthulhu Mythos
    writers including Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner, Henry S. Whitehead, and Fritz Leiber—a group referred...
    23 KB (2,498 words) - 08:58, 27 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for H. P. Lovecraft
    H. P. Lovecraft (category CS1: long volume value)
    written to Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith, and James F. Morton. He attributes this importance to the contents of these letters. With Long, Lovecraft...
    161 KB (20,054 words) - 04:53, 5 August 2024
  • Lovecraft's contemporaries, including Ray Bradbury, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, and Derleth himself; classic genre...
    35 KB (4,442 words) - 21:56, 11 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Robert Bloch
    August Derleth, R. H. Barlow, Clark Ashton Smith, Donald Wandrei, Frank Belknap Long, Henry S. Whitehead, E. Hoffmann Price, Bernard Austin Dwyer and J...
    100 KB (12,903 words) - 21:49, 8 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for At the Mountains of Madness
    appeared in the November 1930 edition Weird Tales. In a letter to Frank Belknap Long, Lovecraft declared Metcalf Roof's story to be a "rotten," "cheap...
    33 KB (4,027 words) - 13:31, 6 July 2024
  • The Early Long is a collection of stories by Frank Belknap Long. Released in 1975, more than 50 years after the start of Long's career, it contains some...
    4 KB (414 words) - 13:08, 9 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Rats in the Walls
    be yours… Evil and sorrow to thee and thine!" Lovecraft wrote to Frank Belknap Long, "[T]he only objection to the phrase is that it's Gaelic instead of...
    19 KB (2,811 words) - 01:34, 25 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nyarlathotep
    Circle August Derleth Clark Ashton Smith Robert Bloch Robert E. Howard Frank Belknap Long Legacy Lovecraft studies Works influenced by the Cthulhu Mythos H...
    20 KB (2,563 words) - 01:53, 6 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shoggoth
    not an option as the Elder Things were dependent on them for labor and had long lost their capacity to create new life. Shoggoths also developed the ability...
    7 KB (884 words) - 01:57, 8 August 2024
  • created by Frank Belknap Long and later incorporated into the Cthulhu Mythos when it was codified by August Derleth. They first appeared in Long's short story...
    33 KB (4,646 words) - 21:38, 23 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Weird Tales
    headquartered. Lovecraft described Henneberger's plans in a letter to Frank Belknap Long as "a brand-new magazine to cover the field of Poe-Machen shudders"...
    132 KB (14,123 words) - 21:20, 12 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Thing on the Doorstep
    were discernible only with difficulty", Lovecraft evoked his protégé Frank Belknap Long, whom he frequently teased for the same reason. Derby's correspondence...
    19 KB (2,598 words) - 02:04, 14 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Satellite Science Fiction
    two issues; Margulies took over when Merwin left, and then hired Frank Belknap Long for the February 1959 issue. That issue saw the format change to letter...
    18 KB (2,087 words) - 10:49, 26 April 2024
  • Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, John D. MacDonald, Murray Leinster, Frank Belknap Long and Milton Lesser. After its initial cancellation, there was at least...
    6 KB (255 words) - 09:12, 30 November 2022
  • lives in South Florida and has a summer home in Sag Harbor, New York. His long-term domestic partner is Pace Barnes, a woman who, according to USA Today...
    10 KB (917 words) - 08:46, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for R'lyeh
    Circle August Derleth Clark Ashton Smith Robert Bloch Robert E. Howard Frank Belknap Long Legacy Lovecraft studies Works influenced by the Cthulhu Mythos H...
    8 KB (916 words) - 04:00, 13 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Call of Cthulhu
    Circle August Derleth Clark Ashton Smith Robert Bloch Robert E. Howard Frank Belknap Long Legacy Lovecraft studies Works influenced by the Cthulhu Mythos H...
    15 KB (1,902 words) - 12:56, 19 July 2024
  • Robert E. Howard "The Hounds of Tindalos" by Frank Belknap Long "The Space-Eaters" by Frank Belknap Long "The Dweller in Darkness" by August Derleth "Beyond...
    61 KB (6,607 words) - 19:59, 26 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arkham
    Lovecraft based the name on the Housatonic River which extends from the Long Island Sound through the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts and western...
    20 KB (2,069 words) - 15:27, 27 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Shunned House
    Myths and Myth-Makers. "The Shunned House", with an introduction by Frank Belknap Long, was to have been Lovecraft's first published book. Approximately...
    12 KB (1,566 words) - 03:04, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Azathoth (short story)
    Hippocampus Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-0974878911. H. P. Lovecraft, letter to Frank Belknap Long, June 9, 1922; cited in Joshi and Schultz, "Azathoth", p. 13. Works...
    4 KB (376 words) - 03:04, 30 April 2024
  • Faugn (The Elephant God, The Horror from the Hills) was created by Frank Belknap Long and first appeared in his novel The Horror from the Hills (1931)....
    62 KB (3,589 words) - 21:57, 31 March 2024
  • horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft on 3 November 1927. Author Frank Belknap Long read this dream too, and asked Lovecraft permission to include it...
    3 KB (358 words) - 08:33, 29 July 2024