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...write about the "new horror," but what's the "old horror" that you would recommend to readers? I would say Frankenstein and Dracula, those two should be read. They aren't anything at all alike. There's a great novella by Arthur Machen called "The Great God Pan." Knocked my socks off when I was thirteen. Anything by Shirley Jackson. The Haunting of Hill House or The Demon Lover, which is a fabulous story-very eerie, but completely realistic. It suggests that there's a realm that we are very close to, but cannot quite apprehend, a realm that...
Obviously, Lovecraft here was exploring those tenebrific estuaries of the occult that had barely been mapped by Jung, Fraser and Arthur Machen. He even equipped the ancient demons with names - mindless Azagoth, Soggoth, Ib, Nyarlathotep and, above all, the great dread Cthulu who, in his sole appear ance, seems to be a "gelatinous green immensity" that slobbers. To recall these alien creatures from their hideous hiding places (the arctic wastes, unfathomable submarine chasms, New Eng land), the intrepid have but to practice rituals recorded in dusty, blasphemous old tomes like the Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred...
Died. Eddie Machen, 40, ranking heavyweight contender during the 1950s and '60s; of injuries suffered when he fell or jumped from his apartment window; in San Francisco. A convict turned fighter, Machen seemed headed for the championship until Sweden's Ingemar Johansson kayoed him in the first round of a 1958 fight. After a bout with mental illness, he tried a comeback that soon fizzled, and later worked part time as a longshoreman...
...antinoise. It also controls what there is of boxing in 39 states (notable exceptions: California and New York). So last September it declared the heavyweight title vacant, and last week in Chicago it staged a new "world championship" fight between two harmless creatures named Ernie Terrell and Eddie Machen...
Terrell, 25, is a 6-ft. 6-in. rock-'n'-roll singer who uses his right hand mostly for shaving: in a sparring session, newsmen noted that he threw 23 consecutive left jabs. Machen's main claims to fame are that he was out pointed in twelve rounds by Floyd Patterson, flattened in the first round by Ingemar Johansson, and confined for five weeks to a California mental hospital. The best fight of the evening occurred when two fans in the $20 seats unaccountably started punching each other in a dispute over tickets and somebody knocked over...