Peter H. Cannon (born 1951 in California ) is an H. P. Lovecraft scholar and an author of Cthulhu Mythos fiction. Cannon works as an editor for Publishers Weekly , specializing in thrillers and mystery . He lives in New York City and is married with three children.
103-612: Cannon first made his name as a critic in H. P. Lovecraft studies with his graduate theses written in the 1970s - A Case for Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Honors thesis, Stanford, 1973) and Lovecraft's New England (M.A. thesis, Brown University , June 1974). Lovecraft's Old Men appeared in a mailing of the Esoteric Order of Dagon in 1977; another by him, "You Have Been in Providence, I Perceive", published in Nyctalops (March 1978), studies
206-424: A Heritage in 1966 (published under his own name), eight of which were published as by "Lyda Belknap Long", a combination of his wife (Lyda Arco Long)'s first name and his middle name and surname. Seven of these appeared during the 1970s; all were entirely his own work and were workmanlike products intended to support him and his wife rather than to be of high literary quality. Illumination on Long's own life and work
309-562: A Russian descended from a line of actors in the Yiddish theatre who ran a salon in Chelsea, NY. They stayed together till Long's death in 1994, but had no children. Long described himself as an "agnostic." Referring to Lovecraft, Long wrote that he "always shared HPL's skepticism . . . concerning the entire range of alleged supernatural occurrences and what is commonly defined as 'the occult.'" In 1963 Arkham House published Long's novel The Horror from
412-451: A brief preface to the stillborn edition of Lovecraft's The Shunned House (1928). Lovecraft, in turn, ghostwrote for Long the preface to Mrs William B. Symmes' Old World Footprints (W. Paul Cook/The Recluse Press, 1928), a slim poetry collection by Long's aunt. Long's short novel The Horror from the Hills ( Weird Tales , Jan and Feb-March 1931; published in book from 1963) incorporates verbatim
515-555: A checklist of Cannon's tales between 1979 and 1995. Cannon's story "The Letters of Halpin Chalmers", a direct sequel to Frank Belknap Long 's "The Hounds of Tindalos", in which the main characters are thinly disguised versions of Frank and Lyda Long, appears in Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz and Martin H. Greenberg, 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories (NY: Barnes and Noble, 1994). Brown University Brown University
618-614: A collection of reminiscences by friends and acquaintances of Lovecraft, and co-edited More Annotated Lovecraft with Joshi. He also wrote a personal memoir about another writer in the Lovecraft Circle, Long Memories: Recollections of Frank Belknap Long ( British Fantasy Society , 1997). Cannon's column "The Cannonical Lovecraft" appeared in The New Lovecraft Collector (Necronomicon Press) in issues 12-26 inclusive (Fall 1995-Spring 1999). Occasional critical articles on
721-884: A college in the Colony of Rhode-Island, under the chief direction of the Baptists; ... Mr. James Manning , who took his first degree in New-Jersey college in September, 1762, was esteemed a suitable leader in this important work. James Manning arrived at Newport in July 1763 and was introduced to Stiles, who agreed to write the charter for the college. Stiles' first draft was read to the General Assembly in August 1763, and rejected by Baptist members who worried that their denomination would be underrepresented in
824-519: A direct sequel to "The Hounds of Tindalos", in which the main characters are thinly disguised versions of Frank and Lyda Long, appears in Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz and Martin H. Greenberg, 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories (NY: Barnes and Noble, 1994). Creatures resembling the Hounds are antagonists in Shaun Hamill's A Cosmology of Monsters (NY: Pantheon, 2019). The Hounds have also inspired
927-597: A great variety of writers, among them Arthur Machen , Robinson Jeffers , William Ellery Leonard , John Drinkwater , John Masefield and George Sterling . Samuel Loveman declared that Long's poem "The Marriage of Sir John de Mandeville" was worthy of Christopher Marlowe . Long's closest friends (apart from H. P. Lovecraft) in this period included Samuel Loveman, H. Warner Munn , and James F. Morton . He had several encounters with Hart Crane , who lived one flight above Loveman in Brooklyn Heights. "The Horror from
1030-687: A hospital for French troops from June 26, 1780, to May 27, 1782. A number of Brown's founders and alumni played roles in the American Revolution and subsequent founding of the United States. Brown's first chancellor, Stephen Hopkins, served as a delegate to the Colonial Congress in Albany in 1754, and to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776. James Manning represented Rhode Island at
1133-489: A letter by Lovecraft recounting his great 'Roman dream' of Hallow'een 1927. Long teamed with Lovecraft in a revision service with Lovecraft in 1928. Long's parents frequently took Lovecraft on various motor trips between 1929 and 1930, and Lovecraft visited Long at Christmas between 1932 and 1935 inclusive. Lovecraft helped set type for Long's second poetry collection, The Goblin Tower (1935), correcting some of Long's faulty metre in
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#17328550733821236-468: A major part of science fiction history in the U.S., has known most of the writers personally, or has corresponded with them, and has, with his own writing, helped shape the field when most of us were still in our early teens." H. P. Lovecraft was a close friend and mentor to Frank Belknap Long, with whom he came in contact in 1920 when Long was nineteen. Lovecraft found Long a stimulating correspondent especially in regard to his aesthetic tastes, focussing on
1339-462: A month in New York's Roosevelt Hospital , where he came close to dying. Long's brush with death propelled him into a decision that he would leave college to pursue a freelance writing career. In 1924, at the age of 22, he sold his first short story, "The Desert Lich", to Weird Tales magazine. Throughout the next four decades, Long was to be a frequent contributor to pulp magazines, including two of
1442-405: A mystery; Scream for Jeeves: A Parody (Wodecraft Press, 1994), which retells some of Lovecraft's stories in the voice of P. G. Wodehouse 's Bertie Wooster . An omnibus of these two titles has been issued as The Lovecraft Papers ( Science Fiction Book Club , 1996); this contains the corrected/expanded version of Pulptime. He has also penned Lovecraft Chronicles ( Subterranean Press , 2008),
1545-487: A novel based on Lovecraft's personal life. Later stories are collected Forever Azathoth and Other Horrors ( Tartarus Press , 1999; rev. ed. Subterranean Press , 2011 (as Forever Azathoth: Pastiches and Parodies ); rev. ed. Hippocampus Press , 2012 (as Forever Azathoth: Parodies and Pastiches ). He has also issued The Sky Garden (a chapbook; Richmond, VA: Dementia, 1989) and Episode of Pulptime and One Other (W. Paul Ganley: publisher, 2003 - two stories, one Lovecraftian,
1648-402: A number of metal and electronic music artists. Metallica (with their song " All Nightmare Long " from their ninth studio album Death Magnetic ), Epoch of Unlight , Edith Byron's Group, Beowulf, Fireaxe , and Univers Zero have all recorded tracks incorporating them. Charles P. Mitchell has suggested that the "drone dog" in the film Phantoms (film) , based on the novel by Dean R. Koontz ,
1751-598: A public Building or Buildings for the boarding of the youth & the Residence of the Professors. The three petitioners were Ezra Stiles , pastor of Newport's Second Congregational Church and future president of Yale University ; William Ellery Jr. , future signer of the United States Declaration of Independence ; and Josias Lyndon , future governor of the colony. Stiles and Ellery later served as co-authors of
1854-504: A secure position in a field that has always had a tremendous emotion and an imaginative appeal for me—that of natural history." In his late teens, he was active in the United Amateur Press Association (UAPA) in which he won a prize from The Boy's World (around 1919) and thus discovered amateur journalism. His first published tale was "Dr Whitlock's Price ( United Amateur , March 1920). Long's story "The Eye Above
1957-405: A steering committee to research Brown's eighteenth-century ties to slavery. In October 2006, the committee released a report documenting its findings. Titled "Slavery and Justice", the document detailed the ways in which the university benefited both directly and indirectly from the transatlantic slave trade and the labor of enslaved people. The report also included seven recommendations for how
2060-501: A time-traveller from the future has an encounter with writer F. Scott Fitzgerald . His later science fiction works include the story collection John Carstairs, Space Detective (1949) about a 'botanical detective', and the novels Space Station 1 (1957), Mars is My Destination (1962) and It Was the Day of the Robot (1963). In the 1950s he was involved with editing five different magazines. He
2163-691: Is Long's most famous fictional creation. The Hounds were a pack of foul and incomprehensibly alien beasts "emerging from strange angles in dim recesses of non-Euclidean space before the dawn of time" (Long) to pursue travelers down the corridors of time. They could only enter our reality via angles, where they would mangle and exsanguinate their victims, leaving behind only a "peculiar bluish pus or ichor " (Long). The Hounds of Tindalos have been used or referenced by many later Mythos writers, including Ramsey Campbell , Lin Carter , Brian Lumley and Peter Cannon . Cannon's story "The Letters of Halpin Chalmers",
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#17328550733822266-688: Is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island , United States. It is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations . One of nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution , it was the first US college to codify that admission and instruction of students
2369-474: Is exceedingly scarce; two copies are held at the collections of the John Hay Library . In pulps such as Thrilling Wonder Stories and Startling Stories during the 1940s, Long sometimes wrote using the pseudonym "Leslie Northern". What Long characterized as a "minor disability" kept him out of World War II and writing full-time during the early 1940s. Long reportedly ghost-wrote two, possibly three, of
2472-459: Is noted as the first African American president of an Ivy League institution. Other presidents of note include academic, Vartan Gregorian ; and philosopher and economist, Francis Wayland . In 1966, the first Group Independent Study Project (GISP) at Brown was formed, involving 80 students and 15 professors. The GISP was inspired by student-initiated experimental schools, especially San Francisco State College , and sought ways to "put students at
2575-629: Is noted as the founder and commander of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment , widely regarded as the first Black battalion in U.S. military history. David Howell , who graduated with an A.M. in 1769, served as a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1785. Nineteen individuals have served as presidents of the university since its founding in 1764. Since 2012, Christina Hull Paxson has served as president. Paxson had previously served as dean of Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs and chair of Princeton's economics department. Paxson's immediate predecessor, Ruth Simmons ,
2678-430: Is provided by his extensive introduction to The Early Long (1975), a collection of his best early stories which essentially duplicates the contents of The Hounds of Tindalos but to which Long adds detailed headnotes to each story. Further writing on his own life is found in his Autobiographical Memoir (Necronomicon Press, 1986). Long's book-length memoir of H. P. Lovecraft, Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on
2781-507: Is reminiscent of a Hound of Tindalos. Peter Cannon's novel Pulptime features Long as the narrator. Long also appears in Richard Lupoff's novel Lovecraft's Book (1985) and its full-text version Marblehead . A Guest in the House (CBS-TV television play, 1954) Audio recording of author panel discussion from First World Fantasy Convention, Providence, 1975. Long's voice was preserved on
2884-459: Is said to cancel the hex. The John Hay Library is the second oldest library on campus. Opened in 1910, the library is named for John Hay (class of 1858), private secretary to Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State under William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt . The construction of the building was funded in large part by Hay's friend, Andrew Carnegie , who contributed half of the $ 300,000 cost of construction. The John Hay Library serves as
2987-453: Is to inspire creative and critical thinking about culture by fostering an interdisciplinary understanding of the material world. It provides opportunities for faculty and students to work with collections and the public, teaching through objects and programs in classrooms and exhibitions. The museum sponsors lectures and events in all areas of anthropology and also runs an extensive program of outreach to local schools. The Annmary Brown Memorial
3090-596: The Congress of the Confederation , while concurrently serving as Brown's first president. Two of Brown's founders, William Ellery and Stephen Hopkins signed the Declaration of Independence . James Mitchell Varnum , who graduated from Brown with honors in 1769, served as one of General George Washington's Continental Army brigadier generals and later as major general in command of the entire Rhode Island militia . Varnum
3193-743: The East Side neighborhood of College Hill. The university's central campus sits on a 15-acre (6.1-hectare) block bounded by Waterman, Prospect, George, and Thayer Streets ; newer buildings extend northward, eastward, and southward. Brown's core, historic campus, constructed primary between 1770 and 1926, is defined by three greens: the Front or Quiet Green, the Middle or College Green, and the Ruth J. Simmons Quadrangle (historically known as Lincoln Field). A brick and wrought-iron fence punctuated by decorative gates and arches traces
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3296-515: The Ellery Queen Jr novels (mentioned in correspondence with August Derleth ) but did not identify the titles. It is believed that the two are The Black Dog Mystery (1941) and The Golden Eagle Mystery (1942). The third may have been The Mystery of the Golden Butterfly , which was never published. (This volume is mentioned as Long's on the rear panel of The Horror from the Hills and on
3399-544: The Fawcett Comics Captain Marvel . He worked in the 1940s as a script-reader for Twentieth Century Fox Long wrote crime and weird menace stories for Ten Gang Mystery and other magazines. During the 1940s, Long lived for a period in California . Long credited Theodore Sturgeon , whom he met several times in the mid-1940s, as being instrumental in getting one of his middle-period stories, "A Guest in
3502-548: The Rhode Island School of Design , which offers undergraduate and graduate dual degree programs . Brown's main campus is in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence. The university is surrounded by a federally listed architectural district with a concentration of Colonial-era buildings. Benefit Street has one of America's richest concentrations of 17th- and 18th-century architecture. Undergraduate admissions are among
3605-614: The United States Congress , 58 Rhodes Scholars , 22 MacArthur Genius Fellows, and 38 Olympic medalists. In 1761, three residents of Newport, Rhode Island , drafted a petition to the colony's General Assembly : That your Petitioners propose to open a literary institution or School for instructing young Gentlemen in the Languages, Mathematics, Geography & History, & such other branches of Knowledge as shall be desired. That for this End... it will be necessary... to erect
3708-772: The 1978 World Fantasy Convention ), the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement (in 1987, from the Horror Writers Association ), and the First Fandom Hall of Fame Award (1977). He was born in Manhattan , New York City on April 27, 1901. He grew up in the Harlem area of Manhattan. His father was a prosperous dentist and his mother was May Doty . The family resided at 823 West End Avenue in Manhattan. Long's father
3811-707: The 1980s and 1990s in an apartment in Chelsea, Manhattan - a period documented in Peter Cannon's memoir Long Memories (1997) . In 1987, Long was awarded the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement (from the Horror Writers Association). Long, though confined to a wheelchair, was a Guest of Honour at the H. P. Lovecraft Centennial Conference in Providence, Rhode Island , in 1990, where he spoke on panels regarding his memories of his great friend and literary mentor. Long died of pneumonia on January 3, 1994, at
3914-552: The Brown campus by 10 acres (40,000 m ) and 26 buildings. In 1971, Brown renamed the area East Campus. Today, the area is largely used for dormitories. Thayer Street runs through Brown's main campus. As a commercial corridor frequented by students, Thayer is comparable to Harvard Square or Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue . Wickenden Street , in the adjacent Fox Point neighborhood, is another commercial street similarly popular among students. Built in 1925, Brown Stadium —the home of
4017-726: The College Board of Fellows. A revised charter written by Stiles and Ellery was adopted by the Rhode Island General Assembly on March 3, 1764, in East Greenwich . In September 1764, the inaugural meeting of the corporation—the college's governing body—was held in Newport's Old Colony House . Governor Stephen Hopkins was chosen chancellor, former and future governor Samuel Ward vice chancellor, John Tillinghast treasurer, and Thomas Eyres secretary. The charter stipulated that
4120-545: The College of Brown University, Pembroke's campus was absorbed into the larger Brown campus. The Pembroke campus is bordered by Meeting, Brown, Bowen, and Thayer Streets and sits three blocks north of Brown's central campus. The campus is dominated by brick architecture, largely of the Georgian and Victorian styles . The west side of the quadrangle comprises Pembroke Hall (1897), Smith-Buonanno Hall (1907), and Metcalf Hall (1919), while
4223-572: The Cthulhu Mythos; these include "The Brain Eaters" and "The Malignant Invader", as well as such poems as "The Abominable Snowman" and "When Chaugnar Wakes". A later Mythos story, "Dark Awakening", appeared in New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos . The story betrays the influence of Long's pseudonymous romantic fiction, and the final paragraph was added by the editor at Long's suggestion. The "Hounds of Tindalos"
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4326-577: The Doorstep "; "The Undercliffe Sentences", a takeoff on Ramsey Campbell ; and "The Madness Out of Space", originally presented as a "lost" story by Lovecraft. Numerous other similar stories are collected in two chapbooks - The Thing in the Bathtub and Other Lovecraftian Tales: The Early Cannon Volume One (Tsathoggua Press, 1997) and its companion volume Tales of Lovecraftian Horror and Humor: The Early Cannon Volume Two (Tsathoggua Press, 1997). The latter contains
4429-623: The First Fandom Hall of Fame award (1977). In 1978 he won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (at the 1978 4th World Fantasy Convention). Long's literary output slowed down after 1977, with his gothic The Lemoyne Heritage . He published several scattered stories in the 1980s including the story chapbook "Rehearsal Night" (Pub: Thomas L. Owen,1981) and one episode in the round-robin sequence Ghor Kin-Slayer (Necronomicon Press, 1997). He and his wife lived in extreme poverty during
4532-536: The Hills , a work partly incorporating Lovecraft's account of a dream Lovecraft had experienced. This work introduced Long's alien entity Chaugnar Faugn into the Cthulhu Mythos cycle. In 1972 Arkham House published The Rim of the Unknown , their second hardcover collection of Long's work - a volume focusing primarily on his science fiction short stories. Long wrote nine modern Gothic novels, starting with So Dark
4635-632: The Hills", a story serialised in 1931 in Weird Tales , incorporated almost verbatim a dream H. P. Lovecraft related to him (among other correspondents) in a letter. The short novel was published many years later in separate book form by Arkham House in 1963, as The Horror from the Hills . In the late 1930s, Long turned his hand to science fiction, writing for Astounding Science Fiction . He also contributed horror stories to Unknown (later called Unknown Worlds ). Long contributed an episode (along with C.L. Moore , Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft) to
4738-496: The House", produced on CBS-TV in 1954. In 1946, Arkham House published Long's first collection of supernatural fiction, The Hounds of Tindalos , which collected 21 of his best tales from the previous twenty years of magazine publication. It featured works which had appeared in such pulps as Weird Tales , Astounding Stories , Super Science Stories , Unknown , Thrilling Wonder Stories , Dynamic Science Fiction , Startling Stories , and others. In "The Man from Time",
4841-786: The Italian Renaissance and French literature. Lovecraft published some of Long's early work in his Conservative (e.g. Felis: A prose Poem [July 1923], about Long's pet cat) and paid tribute to Long in a flattering article, "The Work of Frank Belknap Long, Jun.," published anonymously in the United Amateur (May 1924) but clearly by Lovecraft. They first met when Lovecraft visited New York in April 1922. They saw each other with great frequency (especially during Lovecraft's Brooklyn residence in New York City from 1924 to 1926), at which time they were
4944-712: The John Carter Brown Library is generally regarded as the world's leading collection of primary historical sources relating to the exploration and colonization of the Americas. While administered and funded separately from the university, the library has been owned by Brown and located on its campus since 1904. The library contains the best preserved of the eleven surviving copies of the Bay Psalm Book —the earliest extant book printed in British North America and
5047-604: The Lovecraft Centennial Conference in Providence in 1990. Long wrote a number of early Cthulhu Mythos stories. These included " The Hounds of Tindalos " (the first Mythos story written by anyone other than Lovecraft), The Horror from the Hills (which introduced the elephantine Great Old One Chaugnar Faugn to the Mythos), and "The Space-Eaters" (featuring a fictionalized HPL as its main character). A number of other works by Long can be considered as falling within
5150-605: The Lownes Collection of the History of Science (described as "one of the three most important private collections of books of science in America"), and the papers of H. P. Lovecraft . The Hay Library is home to one of the broadest collections of incunabula in the Americas, one of Brown's two Shakespeare First Folios , the manuscript of George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty-Four , and three books bound in human skin . Founded in 1846,
5253-543: The Mantel" (1921), a pastiche of Edgar Allan Poe , in UAPA, caught the eye of H. P. Lovecraft , sparking a friendship and correspondence that would endure until Lovecraft's death in 1937. Long attended New York University from 1920 to 1921, studying journalism but later transferred to Columbia, leaving without a degree. In 1921, he suffered a severe attack of appendicitis , leading to a ruptured appendix and peritonitis . He spent
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#17328550733825356-480: The Nightside , was issued by Arkham House in 1975. It was written in haste as a result of Long's reading of L. Sprague de Camp 's Lovecraft: A Biography (1975), which Long felt to be biased against Lovecraft. In 1977, Arkham House issued Long's hardcover poetry collection In Mayan Splendor , containing all the poems from A Man from Genoa and Other Poems (1924) and The Goblin Tower (1926). The same year he won
5459-703: The Pembroke Campus at its northern end. The walk is bordered by departmental buildings as well as the Lindemann Performing Arts Center and Granoff Center for the Creative Arts The corridor is home to public art including sculptures by Maya Lin and Tom Friedman . The Women's College in Brown University , known as Pembroke College, was founded in October 1891. Upon its 1971 merger with
5562-412: The Pembroke Campus, which houses both dormitories and academic buildings. Facing the western edge of the central campus sit two of the Brown's seven libraries, the John Hay Library and the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library . The university's campus is contiguous with that of the Rhode Island School of Design , which is located immediately to Brown's west, along the slope of College Hill. Built in 1901,
5665-431: The Public and Classical Instruction." The document additionally "recognized more broadly and fundamentally than any other [university charter] the principle of denominational cooperation." The oft-repeated statement that Brown's charter alone prohibited a religious test for College membership is inaccurate; other college charters were similarly liberal in that particular. The college was founded as Rhode Island College, at
5768-467: The Van Wickle Gates are a set of wrought iron gates that stand at the western edge of Brown's campus. The larger main gate is flanked by two smaller side gates. At Convocation the central gate opens inward to admit the procession of new students; at Commencement, the gate opens outward for the procession of graduates. A Brown superstition holds that students who walk through the central gate a second time prematurely will not graduate, although walking backward
5871-416: The age of 92 at Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center in Manhattan, after a seven-decade career as a writer and editor. He was briefly survived by his wife, Lyda. Due to his poverty, he was interred in a potter's field. Friends and colleagues had his remains reinterred at New York City's Woodlawn Cemetery , in a family plot near that of Lovecraft's grandparents. A graveside ceremony on November 3, 1995,
5974-469: The block's perimeter. This section of campus is primarily Georgian and Richardsonian Romanesque in its architectural character. To the south of the central campus are academic buildings and residential quadrangles, including Wriston, Keeney, and Gregorian quadrangles. Immediately to the east of the campus core sit Sciences Park and Brown's School of Engineering . North of the central campus are performing and visual arts facilities, life sciences labs, and
6077-505: The board of trustees should be composed of 22 Baptists, five Quakers , five Episcopalians, and four Congregationalists. Of the 12 Fellows, eight should be Baptists—including the college president—"and the rest indifferently of any or all Denominations." At the time of its creation, Brown's charter was a uniquely progressive document. Other colleges had curricular strictures against opposing doctrines, while Brown's charter asserted, "Sectarian differences of opinions, shall not make any Part of
6180-547: The center of their education" and "teach students how to think rather than just teaching facts". Members of the GISP, Ira Magaziner and Elliot Maxwell published a paper of their findings titled, "Draft of a Working Paper for Education at Brown University." The paper made proposals for a new curriculum, including interdisciplinary freshman-year courses that would introduce "modes of thought," with instruction from faculty from different disciplines as well as for an end to letter grades. The following year Magaziner began organizing
6283-469: The chief members of the Kalem Club and wrote to each other often. Long's family apartment was always Lovecraft's residence and headquarters during his periodic trips from Providence to New York. Long writes that he and Lovecraft exchanged "more than a thousand letters, not a few running to more than eighty handwritten pages" before Lovecraft's death in 1937. Some of their correspondence has been reprinted in Arkham House 's Selected Letters series, collecting
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#17328550733826386-611: The clouds atop a red and white torse . Brown is the largest institutional landowner in Providence, with properties on College Hill and in the Jewelry District . The university was built contemporaneously with the eighteenth and nineteenth-century precincts surrounding it, making Brown's campus tightly integrated into Providence's urban fabric. Among the noted architects who have shaped Brown's campus are McKim, Mead & White , Philip Johnson , Rafael Viñoly , Diller Scofidio + Renfro , and Robert A. M. Stern . Brown's main campus, comprises 235 buildings and 143 acres (0.58 km ) in
6489-489: The college moved from Warren to Providence. To establish a campus, John and Moses Brown purchased a four-acre lot on the crest of College Hill on behalf of the school. The majority of the property fell within the bounds of the original home lot of Chad Brown , an ancestor of the Browns and one of the original proprietors of Providence Plantations . After the college was relocated to the city, work began on constructing its first building. A building committee, organized by
6592-419: The college to Providence, constructing its first building, and securing its endowment. Joseph became a professor of natural philosophy at the college; John served as its treasurer from 1775 to 1796; and Nicholas Sr's son Nicholas Brown Jr. succeeded his uncle as treasurer from 1796 to 1825. On September 8, 1803, the corporation voted, "That the donation of $ 5,000, if made to this College within one Year from
6695-400: The college's charter two years later. The editor of Stiles's papers observes, "This draft of a petition connects itself with other evidence of Dr. Stiles's project for a Collegiate Institution in Rhode Island, before the charter of what became Brown University." The Philadelphia Association of Baptist Churches was also interested in establishing a college in Rhode Island, which was home of
6798-416: The corporation on the same day voted, "That this College be called and known in all future time by the Name of Brown University." Over the years, the benefactions of Nicholas Brown Jr., totaled nearly $ 160,000 and included funds for building Hope College (1821–22) and Manning Hall (1834–35). In 1904, the John Carter Brown Library was established as an independently funded research library on Brown's campus;
6901-580: The corporation, developed plans for the college's first purpose-built edifice, finalizing a design on February 9, 1770. The subsequent structure, referred to as "The College Edifice" and later as University Hall , may have been modeled on Nassau Hall , built 14 years prior at the College of New Jersey . President Manning, an active member of the building process, was educated at Princeton and might have suggested that Brown's first building resemble that of his alma mater . Nicholas Brown , John Brown , Joseph Brown , and Moses Brown were instrumental in moving
7004-401: The decline of the pulps, Long moved into the prolific production of science fiction and gothic romance novels during the 1960s and 1970s. He even wrote a Man from UNCLE story, "The Electronic Frankenstein Affair", which appeared under the pen name Robert Hart Davis in the Man from UNCLE Magazine . In 1960, he married Lyda Arco, an artists' representative and aficionado of drama. She was
7107-403: The east side comprises Alumnae Hall (1927) and Miller Hall (1910). The quadrangle culminates on the north with Andrews Hall (1947). East Campus, centered on Hope and Charlesfield streets, originally served as the campus of Bryant University . In 1969, as Bryant was preparing to relocate to Smithfield, Rhode Island , Brown purchased their Providence campus for $ 5 million. The transaction expanded
7210-449: The influence of Vathek and of Nathaniel Hawthorne upon Lovecraft. Cannon later published a definitive critical study on Lovecraft, H.P. Lovecraft (Twayne's US Authors Series No 549, 1989). Cannon's writings on Lovecraft include the books The Chronology Out of Time: Dates in the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft and Sunset Terrace Imagery in Lovecraft (both from Necronomicon Press ). He edited Lovecraft Remembered ( Arkham House , 1998),
7313-410: The influences of Sherlock Holmes upon Lovecraft. Another article re: the Sherlock Holmes/Lovecraft influence, "Parallel Passages in 'The Adventure of the Copper Beeches' and 'The Picture in the House'" was published in Lovecraft Studies 1, No 1 (Fall 1979). Two essays on Lovecraft appear in S. T. Joshi 's critical anthology H.P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism (1980), respectively examining
7416-402: The late Commencement, shall entitle the donor to name the College." The following year, the appeal was answered by College Treasurer Nicholas Brown Jr. In a letter dated September 6, 1804, Brown committed "a donation of Five Thousand Dollars to Rhode Island College, to remain in perpetuity as a fund for the establishment of a Professorship of Oratory and Belles Letters." In recognition of the gift,
7519-476: The library's collection was founded on that of John Carter Brown , son of Nicholas Brown Jr. The Brown family was involved in various business ventures in Rhode Island, and accrued wealth both directly and indirectly from the transatlantic slave trade . The family was divided on the issue of slavery. John Brown had defended slavery, while Moses and Nicholas Brown Jr. were fervent abolitionists . In 2003, under
7622-652: The most expensive printed book in the world. Other holdings include a Shakespeare First Folio and the world's largest collection of 16th-century Mexican texts. The exhibition galleries of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown's teaching museum, are located in Manning Hall on the campus's main green. Its one million artifacts, available for research and educational purposes, are located at its Collections Research Center in Bristol, Rhode Island . The museum's goal
7725-437: The most famous: Weird Tales (under editor Farnsworth Wright ) and Astounding Science Fiction (under editor John W. Campbell ). Long was an active freelance writer, also publishing many non-fiction articles. His first book, the scarce volume A Man from Genoa and Other Poems , was published in 1926 by W. Paul Cook . Two copies are held in the collections of John Hay Library . The poems in this collection won praise from
7828-438: The most selective in the country, with an acceptance rate of 5% for the class of 2026. As of March 2022 , 11 Nobel Prize winners have been affiliated with Brown as alumni , faculty, or researchers , one Fields Medalist , seven National Humanities Medalists , and 11 National Medal of Science laureates. Alumni include 27 Pulitzer Prize winners, 21 billionaires, four U.S. Secretaries of State , over 100 members of
7931-696: The mother church of their denomination . At the time, the Baptists were unrepresented among the colonial colleges; the Congregationalists had Harvard University and Yale University, the Presbyterians had the College of New Jersey, which later became Princeton University , and the Episcopalians had the College of William & Mary and King's College, which later became Columbia University . The local University of Pennsylvania in their native Philadelphia
8034-522: The other a story called "Vid" in which Count Dracula attempts to land a publishing contract. According to the copyright page of Episode of Pulptime & One Other, the edition was limited to 150 signed, numbered copies, of which "several" were bound in hardcover. He has also written several short stories in the Cthulhu Mythos genre, often with an element of parody. These include "Azathoth in Arkham" and "The Revenge of Azathoth", two sequels to " The Thing on
8137-520: The process. Lovecraft's letters to Long after 1931 have all been lost , with the letters up to that date existing primarily in transcriptions prepared by Arkham House . The Long/Lovecraft friendship was fictionalized in Peter Cannon 's 1985 novel Pulptime: Being a Singular Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, Lovecraft, and the Kalem Club as if Narrated by Frank Belknap Long, Jr. . Long was a Guest of Honour at
8240-407: The rear flap of The Rim of the Unknown ). He wrote comic books in the 1940s, including horror stories for Adventures Into the Unknown (ACG). Long contributed several original scripts to this comic's early issues, as well as an adaptation of Walpole's The Castle of Otranto . He authored scripts for Planet Comics , Superman , Congo Bill , DC 's Golden Age Green Lantern , and
8343-560: The repository of the university's archives, rare books and manuscripts, and special collections. Noteworthy among the latter are the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection (described as "the foremost American collection of material devoted to the history and iconography of soldiers and soldiering"), the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays (described as "the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind in any research library"),
8446-574: The rights to Long's copyrights from Long's cousins. Since that time, all Wildside Press reprints of Long's work carry the acknowledgment "Reprinted with the kind permission and assistance of Lily Doty, Mansfield M. Doty, and the family of Frank Belknap Long." Frank Belknap Long left behind a body of work that included twenty-nine novels, 150 short stories, eight collections of short stories, three poetry collections, and numerous freelance magazine articles and comic book scripts. Author Ray Bradbury summed up Long's career: "Frank Belknap Long has lived through
8549-438: The round-robin story "The Challenge from Beyond" (1935). Like The Man from Genoa and Other Poems , his second book is a volume of fantastic verse: The Goblin Tower (1935), published jointly by H. P. Lovecraft and Robert H. Barlow under Barlow's The Dragonfly Press imprint. (A variant edition of this volume was published in 1945 by New Collectors Group - see Bibliography). Published in an edition of only 100 copies, this volume
8652-627: The school's football team—is located approximately a mile and a half northeast of the university's central campus. Marston Boathouse, the home of Brown's crew teams, lies on the Seekonk River , to the southeast of campus. Brown's sailing teams are based out of the Ted Turner Sailing Pavilion at the Edgewood Yacht Club in adjacent Cranston . Frank Belknap Long Frank Belknap Long Jr. (April 27, 1901 – January 3, 1994)
8755-737: The site of the First Baptist Church in Warren, Rhode Island . Manning was sworn in as the college's first president in 1765 and remained in the role until 1791. In 1766, the college authorized the Reverend Morgan Edwards to travel to Europe to "solicit Benefactions for this Institution". During his year-and-a-half stay in the British Isles , Edwards secured funding from benefactors including Thomas Penn and Benjamin Franklin . In 1770,
8858-545: The student body to press for the reforms, organizing discussions and protests. In 1968, university president Ray Heffner established a Special Committee on Curricular Philosophy. Composed of administrators, the committee was tasked with developing specific reforms and producing recommendations. A report, produced by the committee, was presented to the faculty, which voted the New Curriculum into existence on May 7, 1969. Its key features included: The Modes of Thought course
8961-401: The tenure of President Ruth Simmons , the university established a steering committee to investigate these ties of the university to slavery and recommend a strategy to address them. With British vessels patrolling Narragansett Bay in the fall of 1776, the college library was moved out of Providence for safekeeping. During the subsequent American Revolutionary War , Brown's University Hall
9064-574: The university should address this legacy. Brown has since completed a number of these recommendations including the establishment of its Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, the construction of its Slavery Memorial , and the funding of a $ 10 million permanent endowment for Providence Public Schools . The Slavery and Justice report marked the first major effort by an American university to address its ties to slavery and prompted other institutions to undertake similar processes. Brown's coat of arms
9167-694: The voluminous correspondence of Lovecraft and his friends. Long's Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Night Side was extensively edited by James Turner. During the 1920s, Long and Lovecraft were both members of the Kalem Club (named for the initials of the surnames of original members—K, L, or M). Long was also part of the loosely associated "Lovecraft Circle" of fantasy writers (along with Robert Bloch , August Derleth, Robert E. Howard , Henry Kuttner , Clark Ashton Smith , C. M. Eddy, Jr. , and Donald Wandrei ) who corresponded regularly with each other and influenced and critiqued each other's works. Long wrote
9270-681: The weird fiction genre still appear, e.g. Better Than Half a Yard I Think: Arthur Machen and Real Tennis in Faunus: The Journal of the Friends of Arthur Machen (Autumn, 2000). Cannon provides the Introduction to The Essential H.P. Lovecraft (Knickerbocker Classics/Race Point Books, 2016) and to Leigh Blackmore 's collection Horrors of Sherlock Holmes (R'lyeh Texts, 2017) His fiction includes Pulptime (W,. Paul Ganley, Publisher), in which Lovecraft, Long and Sherlock Holmes team up to solve
9373-524: Was a keen fisher and hunter, and Long accompanied the family on annual summer vacations from the age of six months to 17, usually in the Thousand Islands region on the Canadian shore, about seven miles from the village of Gananoque . When he was three years old, on one of these vacations, Long fell into the river at the end of a long pier and contracted pneumonia A lifelong resident of New York City, Long
9476-423: Was an American writer of horror fiction , fantasy , science fiction , poetry , gothic romance , comic books , and non-fiction . Though his writing career spanned seven decades, he is best known for his horror and science fiction short stories, including contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos alongside his friend, H. P. Lovecraft . During his life, Long received the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (at
9579-589: Was attended by such figures as Scott D. Briggs, Peter Cannon, Stefan Dziemianowicz, Ben P. Indick, S. T. Joshi, T.E.D. Klein and others and with a homily delivered by the Rev. Robert M. Price. On November 17, 1995, the actual interment of Long's body took place, an event witnessed by Peter Cannon, Ben P. Indick and S. T. Joshi. Long's fans contributed over $ 3,000 to have his name engraved upon the central shaft of his burial plot. Lyda died shortly after Frank; her ashes were scattered on his grave. In 2015, Wildside Press acquired
9682-629: Was constructed from 1903 to 1907 by the politician, Civil War veteran, and book collector General Rush Hawkins , as a mausoleum for his wife, Annmary Brown, a member of the Brown family. In addition to its crypt—the final repository for Brown and Hawkins—the Memorial includes works of art from Hawkins's private collection, including paintings by Angelica Kauffman , Peter Paul Rubens , Gilbert Stuart , Giovanni Battista Tiepolo , Benjamin West , and Eastman Johnson , among others. His collection of over 450 incunabula
9785-422: Was created in 1834. The prior year, president Francis Wayland had commissioned a committee to update the school's original seal to match the name the university had adopted in 1804. Central in the coat of arms is a white escutcheon divided into four sectors by a red cross. Within each sector of the coat of arms lies an open book. Above the shield is a crest consisting of the upper half of a sun in splendor among
9888-546: Was discontinued early on, but the other elements remain in place. In 2006, the reintroduction of plus/minus grading was proposed in response to concerns regarding grade inflation. The idea was rejected by the College Curriculum Council after canvassing alumni, faculty, and students, including the original authors of the Magaziner-Maxwell Report. In 2003, then-university president Ruth Simmons launched
9991-648: Was educated in the New York City public school system . As a boy he was fascinated by natural history , and wrote that he dreamed of running "away from home and explore the great rain forests of the Amazon ." He developed his interest in the weird by reading the Oz books, Jules Verne , and H.G. Wells as well as Ambrose Bierce and Edgar Allan Poe . Though writing was to be his life's work, he once commented that as "important as writing is, I could have been completely happy if I had
10094-471: Was founded by Benjamin Franklin without direct association with any particular denomination. Isaac Backus, a historian of the New England Baptists and an inaugural trustee of Brown, wrote of the October 1762 resolution taken at Philadelphia: The Philadelphia Association obtained such an acquaintance with our affairs, as to bring them to an apprehension that it was practicable and expedient to erect
10197-696: Was fully merged into the university. The university comprises the College , the Graduate School , Alpert Medical School , the School of Engineering , the School of Public Health and the School of Professional Studies. Its international programs are organized through the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs , and it is academically affiliated with the Marine Biological Laboratory and
10300-525: Was relocated to the John Hay Library in 1990. Today the Memorial is home to Brown's Medieval Studies and Renaissance Studies programs. The Walk, a landscaped pedestrian corridor, connects the Pembroke Campus to the main campus. It runs parallel to Thayer Street and serves as a primary axis of campus, extending from Ruth Simmons Quadrangle at its southern terminus to the Meeting Street entrance to
10403-588: Was to be equal regardless of the religious affiliation of students. The university is home to the oldest applied mathematics program in the country and oldest engineering program in the Ivy League. It was one of the early doctoral-granting institutions in the U.S., adding masters and doctoral studies in 1887. In 1969, it adopted its Open Curriculum after student lobbying, which eliminated mandatory general education distribution requirements. In 1971, Brown's coordinate women's institution, Pembroke College ,
10506-422: Was uncredited associate editor on The Saint Mystery Magazine and Fantastic Universe . He was associate editor on Satellite Science Fiction , 1959; on Short Stories , 1959–60; and on Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine until 1966. Long several times met fellow Weird Tales writer and poet Joseph Payne Brennan , and later provided the foreword for Brennan's The Chronicles of Lucius Leffing (1977). After
10609-669: Was used to house French and other revolutionary troops led by General George Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau as they waited to commence the march of 1781 that led to the Siege of Yorktown and the Battle of the Chesapeake . This has been celebrated as marking the defeat of the British and the end of the war. The building functioned as barracks and hospital from December 10, 1776, to April 20, 1780, and as
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