Lovecraft on Coast to Coast AM

[Eric Lofgren]

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2012/10/19

Old book, did you catch this?

[old book]

Thank you, Eric, I will catch it. And if anyone needs a copy, PM.

[old book]

Um, this looks pretty bad, actually. This Bob Curran fellow has written a shitty book full of misinformation and George Noory is going to swallow it whole, of course. I would suggest some of our intrepid members actually call in during the show tomorrow to defend HPL and the truth. I'm thinking specifically of Chard, and perhaps Sich on skype from the UQ.

See:

http://tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?p=283129#283129

http://www.yog-sothoth.com/threads/23833-Don-t-Buy-This-Book-A-Haunted-Mind-Inside-the-Dark-Twisted-World-of-H-P-Lovecraft

http://danharms.wordpress.com/2012/09/15/bob-currans-a-haunted-mind-a-request-for-help/

http://jimharold.com/the-paranormal-podcast/hp-lovecrafts-haunted-mind-with-dr-bob-curran-paranormal-podcast-252/

http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/paranormalpodcast/HP_Lovecrafts_Haunted_Mind_-_Paranormal_Podcast_252.mp3

[Eric Lofgren]

I listened to it on Facebook. Yeah, Curran seems well intentioned, but very uninformed. I imagine the book has nothing of value in it for fans.   

[iammarshallarts]

I saw this on the C2C schedule of upcoming shows, and was excited. Then I went to Amazon and read the description of the authors book.  Skipped that one!

[old book]

OK, sorry for being away, no excuse. I heard it. It was all of like 4 minutes at most concerning Lovecraft. Curran claimed some "Lovecraft elite" had targeted him, sent him a trojan, screwed up his computer. I can just see S T Joshi leading an attack by Anonymous against Curran. Not.

OK, his ideas about Lovecraft are pretty basic and uninformed. Just like Peter Levenda's when he wrote Simon's Necronomicon. Just like mine for most of my adult life, probably. We're all learning. Unfortunately it's in Curran's nature to sell books while he's still on the learning curve. He's written a hell of a lot of books, mostly about vampires and werewolves and so on. Hopefully he'll pursue his interest in Lovecraft and come up with something better in the future. I hate to say that, not having read his book, but just by hearing him speak about HPL it's pretty obvious he doesn't have a great deal of insight. I might get his book just to see how wrong he got it, idk yet. I'd like to keep an open mind and welcome as broad a Lovecraft constituency as possible. Crwod-sourcing Lovecraft scholarship is the way to go. As far as the "Lovecraft elite" goes, I'm sure Bob has had some negative experience that leads him to that conclusion, but really, when you consider the creme-de-la-creme elite of our little merry band of fans--Joshi, Pugmyre, Price et al.--there's nothing really elitist about any of them, if you send them an email they answer, if you invite them on for an interview they make the time.

I want to put Bob Curran into that same category as Peter Levenda, not serious scholarship, not particularly interesting, but meriting attention in the future if their inspiration and imagination lead to something a bit more intriguing. I want to leave that possibility open for them, because both seem to be decent writers and researchers in other areas.