Frank Belknap Long

Frank Belknap Long(April 27, 1901 – January 3, 1994) was anAmerican writer of
Frank Belknap Long
horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and
non-fiction.[1] Though his writing career spanned seven decades, he is best known
for his horror and science fiction short stories, including early contributions to the
Cthulhu Mythos. During his life, Long received the World Fantasy Award for Life
Achievement (at 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).

Contents
Biography
Early life
Early career: the 1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
Frank Belknap Long, date unknown
1960s
1970s
Born Frank Belknap Long
Later career: 1980s–1990s April 27, 1901
Harlem, Manhattan,
Legacy
New York City, New
Friendship with Lovecraft York, United States
Influence on popular culture Died January 3, 1994 (aged
Bibliography 92)
Poetry Manhattan, New York
Novels City, New York, United
Story collections States
Plays Resting Woodlawn Cemetery
Recordings place
Memoirs of H. P. Lovecraft Pen name Leslie Northern
Other essays Lyda Belknap Long
Introductions to books by others
Nationality American
Awards
Genre American writer,
Media adaptations comic, fantasy, Gothic
References romance, horror, non-
Further reading fiction, poetry, science
External links
fiction

Biography

Early life
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 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,
[2]
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 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 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 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 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.

Early career: the 1920s

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 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 volumeA 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. [3] The poems in this collection won praise from a great variety of writers, among them
Arthur Machen, Robinson Jeffers, William Ellery Leonard, John Drinkwater, John Masefield and George Sterling.[3] 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.
[4]
He had several encounters withHart Crane, who lived one flight above Loveman in Brooklyn Heights.

1930s
"The Horror from 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 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 is
exceedingly scarce; two copies are held at the collections ofJohn Hay Library.[5]
1940s
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 ofWorld War II and writing full-time during the early 1940s.

Long reputedly ghost-wrote two, possibly three, of the Ellery Queen Junior novels (see Ellery Queen (house name) (mentioned in
correspondence with August Derleth) but unfortunately did not identify the three titles. It has been speculated by researchers that the
two are: The Golden Eagle Mystery (1942) and The Green Turtle Mystery (1944). The third one may have been the fugitive The
Mystery of the Golden Butterfly, which was apparently never published. (This volume is mentioned as Long's on the rear panel of The
Horror from the Hills and on the rear flap ofThe Rim of the Unknown).

He wrote comic books in the 1940s, including horror stories for Adventures Into the Unknown (ACG).[6] Long contributed several
original scripts to this comic's early issues, as well as an adaptation of W
alpole's The Castle of Otranto. He authored scripts forPlanet
Comics, Superman, Congo Bill, DC's Golden Age Green Lantern, and the Fawcett Comics Captain Marvel. He worked in the 1940s
as a script-reader for Twentieth Century Fox [3] 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-
[7]
period stories, "A Guest in 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", a time-traveller from the future has an encounter with writerF. 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).

1950s
In the 1950s he was involved with editing five different magazines. He 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 Magazineuntil 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).

1960s
After 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 aMan
from UNCLE story, "The Electronic Frankenstein Affair", which appeared under the
pen name Robert Hart Davis in theMan from UNCLE Magazine. Long's 1935 Weird Tales story "The
Body-Masters" was reprinted in 1950
In 1960, he married Lyda Arco, an artists' representative and aficionado of drama. as "The Love-Slave and the
She was a Russian descended from a line of actors in the Yiddish theatre who ran a Scientists".
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 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.

1970s
In 1972 Arkham House published The Rim of the Unknown, their second hardcover collection of Long's work - a volume focussing
primarily on his science fiction short stories.

Long wrote nine modern Gothic novels, starting with So Dark 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 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 hisAutobiographical Memoir(Necronomicon Press, 1986).

Long's book-length memoir of H. P. Lovecraft, Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Nightside, was issued by Arkham House
in 1975. It was written in haste as a result of Long's reading ofL. 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 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).

Later career: 1980s–1990s

Long's literary output slowed down after 1977, with his gothic The Lemoyne
The grave of Frank Belknap Long in
Heritage. He published several scattered stories in the 1980s including the story
Woodlawn Cemetery.
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 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 theBram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement (from the Horror W
riters 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 the age of 92 at Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center in Manhattan, after a seven-
decade career as a writer and editor.[1] He was briefly survived by his wife, Lyda.

Due to his poverty, he was interred in a potter's field for indigents. Friends and colleagues, on learning of this indignity, had his
remains moved and reinterred at New York City's Woodlawn Cemetery, in a family plot near that of Lovecraft's grandparents. A
graveside ceremony on Nov 3 1995 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 poignant homily delivered by the Rev. Robert M. Price. On Nov 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.[8] Lyda died shortly after Frank;[8] her
ashes were scattered on his grave.

Legacy
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 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."

Friendship with Lovecraft

The Genius of Mr. Long is a spontaneous and self-expressive one.
—H. P. Lovecraft

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 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 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 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 1930s, 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 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 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 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 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 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 are 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 bluishpus or ichor" (Long).

Influence on popular culture

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", 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).

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 versionMarblehead.

"The Hounds of Tindalos" inspired a number of metal and electronic music artists, such as Metallica (with their song "All Nightmare
Long" from their ninth studio album Death Magnetic), Epoch of Unlight, Edith Byron's Group, Beowulf, Fireaxe,[9] and Univers
Zero, all of whom have recorded tracks based on it.

Charles P. Mitchell has suggested that the drone dog in the movie Phantoms (film), based on a novel by Dean R. Koontz, is
reminiscent of the Hounds of Tindalos.[10]

Bibliography

Poetry
A Man from Genoa and Other Poems(1926) (Athol, MA: W. Paul Cook)
The Goblin Tower (Cassia FL: Dragon-Fly Press, 1935; New Collectors Group, 1945. Note: Due to the somewhat
misleading publisher's introduction to the New Collectors Groupedition, it is often mis-catalogued as a reprint of the
1935 Dragon-Fly Press edition. In fact, the selection of poems dif fers; the New Collectors Group edition drops four
,
"When Chaugnar Wakes," "Exotic Quest," "West Indies" and "Martial: The Vacationist" and adds three, "The
Prophet," "Prediction" and "Walt Whitman." The collection is not to be confused with the novel of the same title byL.
Sprague de Camp.
On Reading Arthur Machen: A Sonnet. (Pengrove, Palo Alto, CA: Dog and Duck Press, 1949). 20 copies, privately
printed. [4] Note: H. P. Lovecraft quotes Long's sonnet in full within his discussion of Arthur Machen's work in
Supernatural Horror in Literature.[11]
The Marriage of Sir John de MandevilleJohn Mandeville (Roy A. Squires, 1976). 22 copies signed by the author .
In Mayan Splendor (Arkham House, 1977; Long's own selection of his best verse; includes contents of A Man from
Genoa and The Goblin Tower plus additional poems. Includes introduction bySamuel Loveman.
When Chaugnar Wakes Chaugnar Faugn (Fantome Press, 1978; 80 copies only). A chapbook of this single poem,
originally published in Weird Tales 20, No 3 and reprinted inIn Mayan Splendor.
The Darkling Tide: Previously Uncollected Poetry(Tsathoggua Press, 1995; edited by Perry M. Grayson)

Novels
 Space Station 1 (Ace Books D242,1957 - an Ace double, bound with
Empire of the Atom by A.E. van Vogt)
Mission to a Distant Star(Satellite SF magazine serial in 5 parts)
Woman from Another Planet(Chariot Books,1960)
The Horror Expert (Belmont Books, Dec 1961)
The Mating Center (Chariot Books,1961)
Mars is My Destination(Pyramid Books, June 1962)
The Horror from the Hills(Arkham House,1963); expanded edition as
Odd Science Fiction (1964)
Three Steps Spaceward(Avalon Books, 1963)
It Was the Day of the Robot(Belmont Books, 1963). Reprint: Dennis
Dobson, 1964.
The Martian Visitors (Avalon Books, 1964)
Mission to a Star (Avalon Books, 1964)
Lest Earth Be Conquered(Belmont Books, Dec 1966); reissue asThe
Androids, (Tower Books, 1969)
This Strange Tomorrow (Belmont Books, Feb 1966)
So Dark a Heritage (Lancer Books,1966)
Journey Into Darkness (Belmont Books, April 1967) "Operation: Square Peg", a
...And Others Shall Be Born(Belmont Books, Jan 1968) (bound withThe collaboration between Long and
Thief of Thoth by Lin Carter) advertising executive Irving W.
The Three Faces of Time (Tower Books, 1969) Lande, was the cover story for the
To the Dark Tower (Lancer Books, 1969) (as by Lyda Belknap Long) April 1957 issue of Satellite Science
Monster From Out of Time (Popular Library, 1970 pbk original). Fiction
Reprinted in hc, London: Robert Hale, 1971.
Survival World (Lancer Prestige/Magnum, 1971)
The Witch Tree (Lancer Books, 1971) (as by Lyda Belknap Long)
Fire of the Witches (Popular Library, 1971) (as by Lyda Belknap Long)
The Shape of Fear (Beagle Books, July 1971) (as by Lyda/Lydia
Belknap Long; the author's pseudonym 'Lyda Belknap long' was
misprinted on the cover as 'Lydia Belknap Long').
The Night of the Wolf (Popular Library, 1972)
House of the Deadly Nightshade(Beagle Books, March 1972) (as by
Lyda Belknap Long)
Legacy of Evil (Beagle Books, June 1973) (as by Lyda Belknap Long)
Crucible of Evil (Avon, July 1974)(as by Lyda Belknap Long)
The Lemoyne Heritage(Zebra Books, 1977)(as by Lyda Belknap Long)
Rehearsal Night (Pub: Thomas L. Owen,1981)
Ghor Kin-Slayer (Long has one episode in this round-robin sequence;
Necronomicon Press, 1997)

Story collections
The Hounds of Tindalos (Arkham House, 1946). Reprints: London:
Long's "Mission to a Distant Star"
Museum Press, 1950. NY: Belmont books, Aug 1963.
was the cover story for the February
John Carstairs: Space Detective(Frederick Fell, 1949). Reprints:
Toronto: McLeod, 1949 (?); Kemsley, 1951. 1958 issue of Satellite Science
Odd Science Fiction (Aug 1964). Reprint, London: Brown Watson, 1965 Fiction. It appeared in book form in
(as The Horror from the Hills). Contains "The Horror from the Hills", plus 1964 as Mission to a Star.
"The Flame of Life" and "Giant in the Forest".
The Dark Beasts and Eight Other Stories from the Hounds of iTndalos
(1964). Contains half the contents of the 1946The Hounds of Tindalos collection.
The Rim of the Unknown(Arkham House, 1972). Reprint (pbk) Condor Books, 1978.
The Black Druid and Other Stories. (London: Panther, 1975)
A Dangerous Experiment(Necronomicon Press, 1977; single story in chapbook form). This tale is also reprinted in
The Eye Above the Mantel and Other Stories.
The Early Long (NY: Doubleday, 1975) (London: Robert Hale, 1977). (NY : Jove/HBJ, 1979 as The Hounds of
Tindalos).
 Night Fear (Zebra Books, 1979). Intro by Roy Torgeson. 16 tales from the pulps including "The Horror from the Hills".
Escape from Tomorrow: Three Previously Unreprinted Weird Tales (Necronomicon Press, 1995)
The Eye Above the Mantel and Other Stories: 4 Previously Uncollected W eird Tales. Foreword by H.P. Lovecraft.
Edited by Perry M. Grayson. West Hills, CA: Tsathoggua Press, Aug 1995. The Foreword is Lovecraft's essay "The
Work of Frank Belknap Long, Jr", reprinted from The United Amateur (May 1924).
The Man Who Died Twice & Three Others (Wildside Press, 2009)

Plays
A Guest in the House (CBS-TV television play, 1954)

Recordings
Audio recording of author panel discussion from First World Fantasy Convention, Providence, 1975. Long's voice was preserved on a
flexi-disc record of this speech issued with the fanzineMyrrdin Issue 3 (1976). The other side of the flexi-disc contains a recording of
Robert Bloch's speech from the convention.

Memoirs of H. P. Lovecraft
"Random Memories of H. P. Lovecraft" (Marginalia)
"H.P.L. in Red Hook" (in The Occult Lovecraft, ed. Anthony Raven, 1975)
Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Night Side(Arkham House, 1975). Italian translation published by
Profondo Rosso, Rome, 2010 asH. P. Lovecraft e le ombre
"H. P. Lovecraft". Poem. Weird Tales (June 1938); reprinted inIn Mayan Splendor (p. 66)

Other essays
"At the Home of Poe". Reprint in Lon Milo duQuette, ed,The Weiser Book of Horror and the Occult: Hidden Magic,
Occult Truths, and the scary Stories That Started It All, Red Wheel/Weiser, 2014.

Introductions to books by others

Joseph Payne Brennan. The Chronicles of Lucius Leffing.Donald M. Grant, Publisher, 1977.
Richard Lupoff. The Return of Skull-Face. Fax Collectors Editions, 1977.
H.P. Lovecraft The Colour Out of Space(Jove, 1978). Long's brief preface was inadvertently omitted from the first
printing of this collection.
H. P. Lovecraft. The Conservative Complete 1915-1923. West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1976 (50 copies
only); 1977 (2000 copies). Edited by Marc A. Michaud.

Awards
Edna St Vincent Millay Poetry Award
First Fandom Hall of Fame award(1977).
World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (at the 1978 4thWorld Fantasy Convention),
Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement (in 1987, from theHorror Writers Association).
Long's poem "The Marriage of Sir John de Mandeville" was a retrospective Nominee for Best Long Poem in the 1977 Rhysling
Awards

Media adaptations
Long's short story "The Space Eaters" was adapted as episode 63 of the television series
Monsters, starring Richard
Clarke, Mart Hulswit and Richard M. Hughes.[12][13]
References
1. William Grimes (January 5, 1994)."Frank Belknap Long, an Author Of Science Fiction, Is Dead at 90"(https://www.n
ytimes.com/1994/01/05/obituaries/frank-belknap-long-an-author-of-science-fiction-is-dead-at-90.html) . New York
Times. Retrieved 2014-12-23. "Frank Belknap Long, the author of "The Hounds of iTndalos," "The Horror From the
Hills" and other works of fantasy, the supernatural and science fiction, died on Sunday at St. V
incent's Hospital in
Manhattan. He was 90 and lived in Manhattan. ... "
2. Frank Belknap Long, Autobiographical Memoir. West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 198, pp3-06
3. Jacket bio, Frank Belknap Long,The Hounds of Tindalos, Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1946
4. Frank Belknap Long. Autobiographical Memoir. West Warwick, RI: Necronomicvon Press, 198, pp. 10-12.
5. [1] (https://search.library.brown.edu/catalog/b1568668)
6. "Archived copy" (https://web.archive.org/web/20160923015306/https://worldsofweird.com/tag/adventures-into-the-un
known/). Archived from the original (https://worldsofweird.com/tag/adventures-into-the-unknown/)on 2016-09-23.
Retrieved 2016-09-22., [2] (http://www.comics.org/issue/7014/)
7. The Early Long, Doubleday, 1975, p.xxviii
8. The New Lovecraft Collector9 (Winter 1995), 3
9. /Brian Voth (http://www.neptune.net/~bev/Fireaxe.html)
10. Charles P. Mitchell, The Complete H. P. Lovecraft Filmography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001, p. 168
11. H. P. Lovecraft, The Annotated Supernatural Horror in LiteratureNY: Hippocampus Press, revised & updatedsecond
edition, 2012, p. 82.
12. "A Lovecraft Filmology, Part Six: Questionable Inclusion" (http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/dcommunication
s/films/thefilms06.htm). Yankee Classic Pictures. Retrieved 2013-09-15.
13. "The Space Eaters" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0650893/)on IMDb

Further reading
Interview. Frank Belknap Long. Fantasy Newsletter (August 1980).
Mike Ashley. "Frank B. Long". Fantasy Media, 1980, 13.
Mike Ashley. "Fiction of Frank Belknap Long." Pulp Vault 12/13 (1996), ix.
Mike Ashley, "Memories of Frank Belknap Long.". Pulp Vault 12/13 (1996).
Leigh Blackmore. "On the Rim of the Unknown: A Visit with Frank and Lyda Belknap Long". Shoggoth No 1 (1992).
Peter Cannon Long Memories: Recollections of Frank Belknap Long , Stockport: British Fantasy Society, 1997.
Afterword by Ramsey Campbell
Peter Cannon. "Frank Belknap Long: A Personal T ribute" in Cannon's S ' unset Terrace Imagery in Lovecraft' and
Other Essays. West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, july 1990,29-30.
Tom Collins. "Frank Belknap Long on Literature, Lovecraft and the Golden Age of 'Weird Tales'"". Twilight Zone 1, No
10 (Jan 1982)
Grayson, Perry M. "Frank Belknap Long: Fantasist of Multiple Dimensions: A Preliminary Critical & Historical
Overview."
Grayson, Perry M. "Frank Belknap Long, Jr (1903-1994): Six Decades of Night Fear in the Eyes of 'Theoung Y Man
with Spectacles': A Selected Bio-bibliography".Yawning Vortex 1, No 1 (Summer 1994).
Grayson, Perry M. "Frank Belknap Long Pioneers the Unknown".Other Dimensions: The Journal of Multimedia
Horror No 3 (Winter 1996), 24-27. On Long's contribution to the early horror comics.
Grayson, Perry M. "Hail Francis, Lord Belknap!". Intro inEscape from Tomorrow (Necronomicon Press, 1995)
Grayson, Perry M. "The Lyda Books". Yawning Vortex 2, No 2 (Aug-Sept 1995)
Ben P. Indick. "In Memoriam: Frank Belknap Long".Lovecraft Studies No 30 (Spring 1994)
S. T. Joshi “Frank Belknap Long: The Gods Are Dead,” chapter 6 inEmperors of Dreams: Some Notes on Weird
Poetry. Sydney: P’rea Press, 2008.ISBN 978-0-9804625-3-1 (pbk) and ISBN 978-0-9804625-4-8 (hbk).
S. T. Joshi. "Things from the Sea: The Early Weird Fiction of Frank Belknap Long".Studies in Weird Fiction No 25
(Summer 2001). Reprint in Joshi'sThe Evolution of the Weird Tale. NY: Hippocampus Press, 2004, 98-106.
[Locus Editors] Obituary: Long, Frank Belknap,Locus v32:2 No.397 Feb 1994
Long, Frank Belknap, Autobiographical Memoir, Necronomicon Press, 1986.
Long, Frank Belknap, The Early Long: the Hounds of Tindalos, Jove Books, 1978.
Long, Frank Belknap, Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Night Side , Arkham House, 1975.
 Longhorn, David. "A Short Long Life". (review of Peter Cannon'sLong Memories (see above). Necrofile No 27
(Winter 1998), 19-20.
Phelps. Donald. "Frank Belknap Long".Pulpsmith (Summer 1984).
Price, Robert M (ed). Crypt of Cthulhu No 42 (1986) is a special issue devoted to Long.

External links
Works by Frank Belknap Longat Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Frank Belknap Longat Internet Archive
Works by Frank Belknap Longat LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
Frank Belknap Long at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Frank Belknap Long: Fantasist of Multiple Dimensions (biographical essay by Perry M. Grayson)
Long's gravesite at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx County *Frank Belknap Long at Find a Grave
Frank Belknap Long Bibliography (w Photo)

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