The Drummer's Revenge on Lovecraft's Battle with Elsa Gidlow

The Drummer's Revenge blog has an informative article about English-Canadian writer Elsa Gidlow, which mentions an obscure battle between her and H.P. Lovecraft. It occurred in the heyday of Lovecraft's involvement with the amateur press, during a time when the original United Amateur Press Association of America split into rival groups. As President of one faction, Lovecraft fired some uncharacteristically bitter bullets at his rival Gidlow.

This is an unusual incident in the biography of Lovecraft that hasn't garnered much attention from scholars. Some might wonder if this is because it presents Lovecraft in a bad light. Whether this is the case or not, it does show that he occasionally broke from the gentlemanly air he was later acclaimed for, especially on the battlefield of the intellect.

-Grim Blogger