HPL (Lovecraft fanzine)

HPL was a Lovecraft-themed zine published by Meade and Penny Frierson in 1972. It featured both fiction (short stories and poetry) and non-fiction (in such varied forms as reviews, literary analysis, memories of Lovecraft's friends and even Lovecraft's astrological chart), as well as a lot of art, most of which was illustrations for Lovecraft's stories and portraits of Lovecraft's characters. It had a run of 1,000 copies.
HPL was followed by two supplementary issues: The HPL Supplement #1, published in October 1972, and The HPL Supplement #2, published in 1973.
The zine was reprinted in the 80s as the "second printing".
== Editor's Comments==
==Contents==
*Meade H. Frierson, III. HPL: An Editorial (article)
*R. Alain Everts. Poeme en Prose (poem)
*Meade H. Frierson, III. The Teller of Tales (poem)
* Meade H. Frierson, III. The Seeker — I (poem)
* Meade H. Frierson, III. The Seeker — II (poem)
*Robert Bloch. The Lovecraft Mythos (article)
*Joseph Payne Brennan. A Haunter of the Night (article)
*Stuart David Schiff, Frank Belknap Long. An Interview with Frank Belknap Long (interview)
*E. Hoffmann Price. HPL: An Astrological Analysis
* E. Hoffmann Price. Reminiscences of H. P. L. (article)
*Fritz Leiber. A Few Short Comments on the Writings of HPL (article)
*R. Alain Everts. Ira A. Cole and Howard Phillips Lovecraft: A Brief Friendship (article)
*Ira A. Cole. Atlantis (poem)
*Colin Wilson. Order of Assassins (excerpts) (story)
* William L. Crawford. An Early HPL Publisher (article)
*George T. Wetzel. Biographic Notes on Lovecraft (article)
*Walter Shedlofsky. Cromlech (story)
*J. Vernon Shea. HPL and Films (essay)
*Gerry de la Ree. An Unknown HPL Artist (article)
*William Scott Home. The Horror Theme after HPL (article)
*George T. Wetzel. The Cthulhu Mythos: A Study (article)
*J. Vernon Shea. A Clerihew (poem)
* Meade H. Frierson, III. Stargazer 1937 & 1972 (poem)
*Roger Bryant. Stalking the Elusive Necronomicon (article)
*Stuart David Schiff. Notes on Collecting Lovecraftiana (article)
*John L. McInnis, III. Notes on Researching Lovecraftiana (article)
*Richard L. Tierney. To Mount Sinai (poem)
*Richard L. Tierney. Mountains of Madness (poem)
*Walter Shedlofsky. Many-Columned Iram (poem)
*Richard L. Tierney. Cthulhu in Mesoamerica (article)
*Ralph Wollstonecraft Hedge. Pickman's Passing (poem)
*Bill Wallace. HPL on NIght Gallery: A Review (article)
* J. Vernon Shea. Lovecraft's Follies: A Review (review)
*James Wade. Review: Selected Letters: 1929—1931 (review)
*Richard L. Tierney. The Derleth Mythos (article)
*James Wade. My Life with the Greatest Old One (article)
*Don Walsh, Jr.. Gruden Itza: The Evolution of a Sub-Mythos (article)
*John Jacob. Final Call (poem)
*Richard Heffern. Crescendoes for the Wind Walker (poem)
*Joseph F. Pumilia. The Weird Tale of Phillip Love (story)
*Anonymous Author. Some Unpublished HPL Correspondence (story)
*Edward S. Lauterbach. The Book of Madness (poem)
* W. Paul Ganley. The Quarry (poem)
*Richard L. Tierney. Found in a Storm-Destroyed Lighthouse (poem)
*Richard L. Tierney. The Book and the Horror (poem)
*Richard L. Tierney. The Doom Prophet (poem)
*L. Sprague de Camp. Psyche (poem)
*Art Folio: Interpretations of Stories by H.P.L.
*Manly Wade Wellman. The Terrible Parchment (story)
*Brian Lumley. The Burrowers Beneath (excerpt)
*Jerry Saunders. Dark Providence (story)
*W. Paul Ganley. Others Who Are Not Men (story)
*Gary Myers. The Return of Zhosph (story)
*John P. Sellers, III. The Drawings on the Desktops (story)
*Robert C. Sudol. Threshold to Doomcrack (story)
*John P. Sellers, III. The Temple (poem)
*James Wade. Planetfall on Yuggoth (story)
*Walter C. DeBill, Jr. Preditor (story)
*Ralph Wollstonecraft Hedge. They Wake Off Innsmouth (poem)
*Herb Arnold. Those Beneath the Waves (story)
*Ramsey Campbell. A Madness from the Vaults (story)
*Darrell Schweitzer. Legends (story)
*A. A. Attanasio. The Elder Sign (story)
*William Scott Home. Dull Scavengers Wax Crafty (story)
*George T. Wetzel. The Eater of the Dead (story)
* George T. Wetzel. What the Moon Brings (story)
*John Jacob. Totem (story)
*Bill Wallace. Down to the Sea (story)
* Walter Shedlofsky. The Dreamer's Knell (poem)
*Robert E. Howard. Who Is Grandpa Theobold? (poem)
*Glenn Lord. Notes to «Who is Grandpa Theobold?» (article)
*Emil Petaja. Hannes Bok and HPL (article)
*Joseph Payne Brennan. Arkham Episode (poem)
*Anonymous Author. Special Announcements
*Anonymous Author. Survey of Current Publications in the Field of the Macabre with special emphasis on H. P. Lovecraft (article)
Cover art by Robert Kline, back cover by Herb Arnold.
Illustrations by Herb Arnold, Stephen Fabian, Richard Corben, Tim Kirk, Danny Frolich, Jim Garrison, Mike Scott, John Swanson, Virgil Finlay, Lee Brown Coye, Denis Tiani, Gary Myers, Harry O. Morris.
==Reactions and Reviews==
==Art==
File:Hplcontents.jpg|Table of contents
File:Hplp1.jpg|Portrait of Lovecraft by Denis Tiani and essay by Robert Bloch
File:Hpl-cthulhu.jpg|Illustration for the Lovecraft's story "The Call of Cthulhu" by Dany Frolich
File:Hpl-chaugnar.jpg|F.B. Long and Chaugnar Faugn by Herb Arnold
File:Hpl-corben.jpg|Drawing of Azathoth by Richard Corben
File:Hpl-scott.jpg|Drawing of The Strange High House in the Mist by Mike Scott
File:Hplhaunter.jpg|Illustration for the Lovecraft's story "The Haunter in the Dark" by Herb Arnold
File:Hplp2.jpg|Interior art by Denis Tiani,
File:Hplp3.jpg|Illustration for the story in the zine "Dull Scavengers Wax Crafty" by Gary Myers
File:Hplp4.jpg|interior art by Herb Arnold
File:Hplp5.jpg|Illustration by Stephen Fabian for the Lovecraft's story "The Outsider"
File:Hplp6.jpg|Arkham by Tim Kirk
File:Hplp7.jpg|Illustration by Stephen Fabian for the Lovecraft's story "The Rats in the Walls"
File:Hplp8.jpg|Illustration by Herb Arnold for the Lovecraft's story "Pickman's Model"
File:Hplp9.jpg|Interior art by Denis Tiani, 
==References==
Category:Non-fiction Zines
Category:Cthulhu Mythos
Category:Lovecraft Zines
Category:1972 Zines