I know some of you would argue that unspeakable evil can always be found on the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal, and you would, of course, be utterly wrong most days of the week. Today, however, was apparently your day to be right (after a fashion):
For a man who didn't believe in the afterlife, H.P. Lovecraft sure is having a remarkable one. Few people had heard of him when he died at the age of 46 on this date in 1937, and fewer still had read the stories he sold to tacky pulp magazines. Nowadays, however, Stephen King and just about everybody else in the know recognizes him as the 20th century's most influential practitioner of the horror story--a claim he arguably clinched last month with the publication of his best works in a definitive edition.
You can find the rest of the article at the OpinionJournal website at http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110006424.
