Richard A. Lupoff

A prolific author in many genres, Richard A. Lupoff first encountered Howard Phillips Lovecraft on a Sunday morning in the First Baptist Church of Bordentown, New Jersey. The year was 1946. The young reader was eleven years old. The Olde Gentleman had been dead for nine years, but Richard didn’t know it.

He had smuggled a copy of a paperback anthology, The Avon Fantasy Reader, into church with him, and as the preacher ranted on about the horrors of damnation, Richard became deeply engrossed in the story that is still his favorite among Lovecraft’s works, “The Dunwich Horror.”

Many years have passed since that bright autumn morning, and after surviving the horrors of Bordentown, New Jersey, Lupoff put several thousand miles between himself and that community. He has built a varied career writing everything from screenplays and murder mysteries to science fiction epics, but Howard Phillips Lovecraft has always had a very cold place in his heart, and Lupoff has reciprocated by writing many stories in the Lovecraft tradition, as well as the highly acclaimed Marblehead: A Novel of H. P. Lovecraft.