Ett manus av HP Lovecraft har återfunnitst, beställt av Harry Houdini, till vad
som troligen skulle bli en bok som avslöjade vidskepelse, bedrägeriet med s k
medier och alla typoer av övertro. HPL hade tidigare spökskrivit åt Den Store
Houdini, men det är inte säkert att han skrivit det som nu hittats, för en
annan författare var också inblandad:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/16/hp-lovecraft-harry-houdini-manuscript-cancer-superstition-memorabilia?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Facebook
"The Cancer of Superstition was previously known only in outline and through
its first chapter. Houdini had asked Lovecraft in 1926 to ghostwrite the
treatise exploring superstition, but the magician’s death later that year
halted the project, as his wife did not wish to pursue it.
According to Potter & Potter Auctions of Chicago, the 31-page typewritten
manuscript was discovered in a large collection of memorabilia from a
now-defunct magic shop. ... The Chicago firm, which will auction the manuscript
on 9 April, says it is “further along than other surviving sources have
indicated it had reached”, with three sections entitled “The Genesis of
Superstition”, “The Expansion of Superstition”, and “The Fallacy of
Superstition”.
According to the auction house – which will open bids at $13,000 (£9,240)
with a pre-auction estimate expecting a final price somewhere between
$25,000-$40,000 – the document explores everything from worship of the dead to
werewolves and cannibalism, theorising that superstition is an “inborn
inclination” that “persists only through mental indolence of those who reject
modern science”. ...
According to Lovecraft scholar ST Joshi, the manuscript was actually
commissioned for Lovecraft and his fellow author CM Eddy. Joshi said that a
synopsis of the book, along with one chapter, The Genesis of Superstition, was
published in the 1966 book The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces.
“But it is stated there that, while the synopsis was written by Lovecraft,
the chapters themselves were written by Eddy, with ‘Lovecraft’s interlinear
emendations and additions’. "
CM Eddy, som troligen skrivit det mesta, var en vän till Lovecraft och själv
skräckförfattare (se https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._M._Eddy,_Jr.)
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