| “ | During that period I believed Howard was a saint. Of course, he wasn’t. What I did not realize (or know) was that he was an arrant anti-Semite who concealed his smouldering hatred of me because of my taint of Jewish ancestry. It would be impossible for me to describe the smug, cloaked hypocrisy of H.P.L. | „ | |
| ~ CIRCLE: Samuel Loveman, "Of Gold and Sawdust"[1] |
"Of Gold and Sawdust" is a short non-fiction piece by H. P. Lovecraft’s former friend and contemporary Samuel Loveman, published in the 1975 limited-run collection The Occult Lovecraft.[2]
Overview[]
Samuel Loveman was originally a close confidante of H.P. Lovecraft who sponsored him into his own amateur writing world and in return was the beneficiary of Loveman, a bookman, introducing him to ghostwriting clients and other sponsors.
As interest in Lovecraft grew after his death, Loveman wrote three memoirs of his friend. In 1948 he wrote “Howard Phillips Lovecraft” which was laudatory, the 1958 summary of conversations and table talk “Lovecraft as a Conversationalist” but finally the extremely critical “Of Gold and Sawdust” written in 1975 near the end of Loveman's own life. This final memoir related to Lovecraft went into detail about what Loveman had, in correspondence with Sonia Greene, come to see as Lovecraft's extreme hypocrisy, deviousness and violent anti-semitism.
References[]
- ↑ https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:425789/
- ↑ "Of Gold and Sawdust" at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database