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 —and I still have every issue of the last eleven years—is to look for the reprint story, in the hope that it may be one of Lovecraft's. My next glance is at the schedule of contents for the following number, hoping to find his name there. Then, before reading any of the stories, I turn to the Eyrie; there it was, yesterday, that I read the staggering news. To attempt to name Lovecraft's best work would be a mere grouping of individual tastes, in a field of super-superlatives, for he never wrote a second-rater; nothing was allowed to leave his hands until it had the polished perfection of a cameo. To me, some of his earlier and shorter stories stand out even more vividly than his overpowering later work. For instance, The Music of Erich Zann, a masterpiece of abstract horror; The Outsider, a classic, of course, of the outré; The Festival, Pickman's Model, and The Lurking Fear, the last of these a particular stand-out because of its potential reality. While some writers exhaust the dictionary in their efforts to picture the horror with which they are dealing, Lovecraft's technique was far

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