E. F. Bleiler

Everett Franklin Bleiler (30 April 1920 – 13 June 2010) was an American editor, bibliographer, and critic. Over the years he wrote many pieces on the works of the late Howard Phillips Lovecraft, many of which have drawn unfavourable conclusions.
==On Lovecraft's Works==
*On "From Beyond": "very interesting, despite stiff, immature writing"Science Fiction: The Early Years, E. F. Bleiler & Richard Bleiler, 1990.
*On Marginalia: "The guest memoirs and essays are of varying interest", but that "Lovecraft's fiction is juvenile or minor. His essays are more significant"The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 1983.
*On "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family": "actually, the story is a metaphor for his extreme bigotry and social snobbery; the motifs of expiating ancestral evil and committing suicide on discovering 'racial pollution' occur in other of his works."Supernatural Fiction Writers, Vol 2, 1985
*On "The Lurking Fear": "digressive and clumsily written, perhaps because it was written for serial publication"Science Fiction: The Early Years, E. F. Bleiler & Richard Bleiler, 1990.
*On "Herbert West--Reanimator": a "wretched work"Science Fiction: The Early Years, E. F. Bleiler & Richard Bleiler, 1990.
==References==
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Category:Deceased (Real World)