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Re: Lovecraft's Death

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On Sunday, January 31, 2016 at 11:21:31 PM UTC-8, bruce turlish wrote:
> Morbid as it may be, I have a few questions about HPL's demise:
> 
> *Did HPL get any visitors to his hospital room prior to his death?
> *HPL was said to have kept a journal of the symptoms of his illness; does anyone know what became of it?
> *Did he continue writing letters from his death bed?
> *About how long was he hospitalized prior to his death?
> *Has anyone in this NG seen the death certificate?  If so, do you remember details of it?
> 
> This is just me doing my bit to keep the pot boiling here at this NG.

When I saw the Lovecraft bronze bust unviel'd in ye Providence Athenaeum Library I felt a strange calmness, as if some kind of eerie living aura was with us in the room. Lovecraft's presence has been felt by many, it appears. I think it was Stanley C. Sargent who told me that he felt the spirit of Lovecraft looking down on him, encouraging him, as Stan wrote his great story, "Nyarlatophis: A Fable of Ancient Egypt". (I had just the opposite experience when I stood before Lovecraft's grave at Swan Point--something whispering to me, "He isn't here." But then when I stood before 10 Barnes Street for the first time, with S. T. at my side, I fancied that I did indeed feel HPL's presence, or aura, or some damn thing.) There is an atmosphere I feel when I enter Joshi's house--an extra kind of "element" in ye air that seems centered on the wee Lovecraft bust on S. T.'s mantel. And then I dip once more into Lovecraft's publish'd correspondence and he seems absolutely alive in those lines that own every ounce of his persona. Not only dies Lovecraft seems alive--he THRIVES! O gawd, how I tremble to hold THE ANNOTATED FUNGI FROM YUGGOTH, and then, perhaps late next year, THE NEW ANNOTATED H. P. LOVECRAFT: BEYOND THE MYTHOS! And that 4th volume of H. P. LOVECRAFT: THE COLLECTED FICTION! HPL just keeps coming back, again & again, a potent literary presence.

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Lovecraft's Death bruce turlish <brturlish@gmail.com> - 2016-01-31 23:21 -0800
  Re: Lovecraft's Death "W. H. Pugmire, Esq." <hopfrog@sesqua.net> - 2016-01-31 23:24 -0800
    Re: Lovecraft's Death bruce turlish <brturlish@gmail.com> - 2016-01-31 23:58 -0800
      Re: Lovecraft's Death Magister <klarkash@spray.se> - 2016-02-01 09:01 -0800
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    Re: Lovecraft's Death bruce turlish <brturlish@gmail.com> - 2016-02-03 22:48 -0800
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