"The best thing that ever happened to me was being expelled from school and starting work as a trainee journalist at the age of 17. Graham's road to writing horror started when he was seventeen, fifty-eight years ago. As it turned out, Masterton and Lovecraft are quite different in many ways, but that is how I became an HPL fan and the debt is still owed to Masterton. It took about a year and a half, but I got ahold of some actual HPL. If this was what Lovecraft's stuff was like, I had to get some. By the end, an NYC hospital is a bloody shambles and a-barely disguised-Great Old One is about to break through to our reality. From there, it was a phantasmagorical hell-ride through the environs of New York City. I learned years later that it was from the Lovecraft-Derleth novel, The Lurker at the Threshold. The novel opened with a quote attributed to Lovecraft.
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