Astounding Stories

Astounding Stories was the leading science fiction magazine of the pulp magazine era. It published two of H. P. Lovecraft's most highly regarded works: At the Mountains of Madness, which was serialized in the February, March, and April issues of 1936, and "The Shadow Out of Time", which appeared in the June 1936 edition.
Founded in 1930 by William Clayton, Astounding was bought in 1933 by the Street & Smith publishing company after Clayton went bankrupt. Street & Smith hired F. Orlin Tremaine as editor; Tremaine's policy of printing stories that he liked without being overly concerned about how closely they fit the genre of the magazine led him to accept Lovecraft's Antarctic horror story when it was submitted in 1935 by Lovecraft's agent Julius Schwartz.
The typographical errors, alterations and omissions in Astounding's version of Madness outraged Lovecraft, who referred to Tremaine as "that god-damn'd dung of a hyaena" in a letter to R. H. Barlow.
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