082 X_04a Page from H. P. Lovecraft Letter to E. Hoffmann Price 4-7 May 1935 5.1 X 7.5 From the 10-May-1981 Envelope to William Hart : 無料・フリー素材/写真
082 X_04a Page from H. P. Lovecraft Letter to E. Hoffmann Price 4-7 May 1935 5.1 X 7.5 From the 10-May-1981 Envelope to William Hart / CthulhuWho1 (Will Hart)
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| 説明 | Description and Transcription from Henry Paget-Lowe (Juha-Matti Rajala):[continues the letter from here: www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/6797827250/ in/photostream/]the 15th century by Kramer & Sprenger (authors of the famous Malleus Maleficarum) in considering some of the phenomena of witchcraft-metamorphosis. Why Wright did not appreciate the departure from the usual cliché is beyond me—though it is easy to see that he has a weakness for conventional tripe. As for commercial policy to adopt towards him—I suppose the wise thing would be to cease “slanting” any commercial fiction in his direction. If atale designed for another market happens to fall within the conceivable sphere of WT, you might send it in after rejections by higher-paying media—letting Pharnabazus being a sort of incidental, as it were. But commercial material designed to suit WT & no other possible market is obviously unprofitable. However—WT is always a conceivable market for certain types of serious weird fiction as distinguished from the prfot-seeking product. One can never depend on Wright either for acceptance or rejection—but if a tale is short, & not extremely gruesome or strikingly original, it always has a chance. And the fact that Pharnabazus will (as many others will not) guarantee to print a story exactly as written is in his favour. I think he used to be even more liberal & open that he is now. His timidity about gruesomeness is increasing, & he is getting so soaked in the lifeless & mechanical formulae & jack-in-the-box action clichés of commercial fition that he appreciates a real story less & less. His recent attempt to compete with certain other magazines by encouraging science fiction & weird detective stuff is loss to lovers of the weird.Well—good luck to your production schedule! I’ve heard a good deal about those plot devices, & once thought they might be of help to me concocting commercial junk. I argued that, except for the disgust & repulsion which keeps one from devising unguided pulp puerilities, I could concoct independent synthetic crap as easily as I could tinker with the kindred crap of other would-be hacks. If, then, I had a conventional mechanical plot doped out by some external agency—which is as much & more than I have to go by in many revision jobs—why could I not do with that what I ordinarily do with the feeble conventionalities of others . . . the only difference being that I could collect all the possible proceeds instead of merely a fee? The ‘plot elements’ arrived at through these gadgets would be equivalent to a bum story offered for revision by Mrs. Heald or old ‘dolph de Castro or some other aspiring pulpist. Well—I got to the point of sending a dollar to one of these companies in Los Angeles (the same one, I think, which makes the Plot Germs) for something called the Plot Robot—a set of lists of stock characters, situations, climaxes, difficulties, &c. &c. &c. &. to be chosen in juxtaposition by the twirling of a pointer on a dial. God, what cheap hokum! To make matters worse, they sent a set of lists pertaining to a branch of fiction utterly & especially antipathetic to me—romance-adventure, or something like that, with noble hero, beautiful she-ro, {?black __}, strirring deeds, & all the rest. It was simply too much for my stomach—& {illegible}. Other types of plot creations[balance missing] |
| 撮影日 | 2012-03-01 07:37:13 |
| 撮影者 | CthulhuWho1 (Will Hart) , Fullerton, U.S.A. |
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