Good news , Lovecraft fans ! While it ’s not a young piece of fabrication , a raw manuscript compose by the famous revulsion author has been learn , insert away in a collection of witching memorabilia .
The 31 - Sir Frederick Handley Page manuscript , titled “ The Cancer of Superstition ” , was a project requested by Harry Houdini for Lovecraft to ghostwrite shortly before the magician ’s death in 1926 , razz against impression in the supernatural and superstitions — that they were an “ inborn inclination ” that “ persist only through mental indolence of those who reject modern skill . ” It seems a strange thing for either of the two men to reprobate , specially when the occult inspired so much of their professions .
To be fair , there ’s a debate as to whether Lovecraft wrote the entire holograph . Speaking toThe Guardian , Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi trust that Lovecraft but wrote the synopsis for it , while fellow writer C.M. Eddy drop a line the bulk of the chapter . But even if Lovecraft only provided the schema for the piece , it ’s still a pleasant surprise to expose it nearly a century later .
The ms is heading to auction in Chicago on April 9th , where it ’s expected to sell for between $ 25,000 and $ 40,000 .
[ BoingBoing ]
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