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Imagination, v. 1, issue 4, whole no. 4, January 1938

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IMAGINATION! #4 38 Jan.     9
2 YRS AGO HPL RCVD FROM FJA A COMPOSITE KODAK OF THE 'MASTER MANIAC & DAMSEL IN DISTRESS' FROM MACABRE MOVIE "MAD LOVE", ACCOMPANIED BY A CARD EXPRESSING WEIRD WISHES FOR A 'CTHULHUICHRISTMAS & NECRONOMICONEW YR'. THE DAY BEFORE XMAS, 1934, HPL ACKNOWLEDGED RECEIPT OF THIS STILL OF THE CINEMA'S 'LORD HI MINISTER OF ALL THAT IS SINISTER'. "HP LOVECRAFT RE PETER LORRE" WE PUBLISH FOLLOWING EXACTLY AS RCVD BY FORRY - PRECISELY AS PENNED BY . . . LOVECRAFT!

66 College St.,
Providence, R.I.,
Dec. 24, 1935

My dear <Ackerman?> - 
Let me thank you most sincerely for the malignly hypnotic photograph of the egg-domed gentleman which reached me yesterday. Surely this pleasant chap looks as if he had but recently wriggled forth from an accursed tomb, & were prepared to wreak upon mankind any & every sort of evil from mere vampirism* to cosmos-blasting invocation of the ultimate black powers of horror! It's a wonder that the accompanying lady doesn't look more frightened than she does . . . . & one may imagine the hideous bass dissonances which issue forth from that shadowy chickering as clammy corpse-fingers draw a danse macabre on its time-stained ivory keys!

This portrait is really very timely, since a great many correspondents have been urging me to see some film -- in fact, any film -- in which the sinister Mr. Lorre is featured. "Mad Love" has been especially recommended, & I have been quite alertly on the lookout for it, but somehow or other it has escaped me so far. After this glimpse I shall double the alerttness of my vigil. Ordinarily I see very few films -- and most of the allegedly weird ones which I have seen ("Frankenstein", "The Ghoul", &c.) were so naive & conventional in their appeal that they did not encourage persistence in the quest for thrills. Lately, however, so many have assured me that Lorre is the real thing, that I am determined to make his projected acquaintance at the very first opportunity. Again let me thank you for the vivid view - - which I shall add with appreciation to my files. 

With the season's best wishes, & trusting that your New Year may be replete with startling messages from the trans-galactic ether, I am

Yrs most cordially,

H.P. Lovecraft

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IMAGINATION! #4 38 Jan. 9 2 YRS AGO HPL RCVD FROM FJA A COMPOSITE KODAK OF THE 'MASTER MANIAC & DAMSEL IN DISTRESS' FROM MACABRE MOVIE "MAD LOVE", ACCOMPANIED BY A CARD EXPRESSING WEIRD WISHES FOR A 'CTHULHUICHRISTMAS & NECRONOMICONEW YR'. THE DAY BEFORE XMAS, 1934, HPL ACKNOWLEDGED RECEIPT OF THIS STILL OF THE CINEMA'S 'LORD HI MINISTER OF ALL THAT IS SINISTER'. "HP LOVECRAFT RE PETER LORRE" WE PUBLISH FOLLOWING EXACTLY AS RCVD BY FORRY - PRECISELY AS PENNED BY . . . LOVECRAFT! 66 College St., Providence, R.I., Dec. 24, 1935 My dear - Let me thank you most sincerely for the malignly hypnotic photograph of the egg-domed gentleman which reached me yesterday. Surely this pleasant chap looks as if he had but recently wriggled forth from an accursed tomb, & were prepared to wreak upon mankind any & every sort of evil from mere vampirism* to cosmos-blasting invocation of the ultimate black powers of horror! It's a wonder that the accompanying lady doesn't look more frightened than she does . . . . & one may imagine the hideous bass dissonances which issue forth from that shadowy chickering as clammy corpse-fingers draw a danse macabre on its time-stained ivory keys! This portrait is really very timely, since a great many correspondents have been urging me to see some film -- in fact, any film -- in which the sinister Mr. Lorre is featured. "Mad Love" has been especially recommended, & I have been quite alertly on the lookout for it, but somehow or other it has escaped me so far. After this glimpse I shall double the alerttness of my vigil. Ordinarily I see very few films -- and most of the allegedly weird ones which I have seen ("Frankenstein", "The Ghoul", &c.) were so naive & conventional in their appeal that they did not encourage persistence in the quest for thrills. Lately, however, so many have assured me that Lorre is the real thing, that I am determined to make his projected acquaintance at the very first opportunity. Again let me thank you for the vivid view - - which I shall add with appreciation to my files. With the season's best wishes, & trusting that your New Year may be replete with startling messages from the trans-galactic ether, I am Yrs most cordially, H.P. Lovecraft