Lovecraft / Crowley Connection

jpjmoffett · Post by **jpjmoffett** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:15 pm

Hey everybody. Have any of you ever heard of a connection or possible meeting between H. P. Lovecraft and Aleister Crowley?

Rodr-Evil · Post by **Rodr-Evil** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:09 am

You mean a real life connection or what man? Anyway I never heard that.

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:25 pm

He was his grandson, turns out that Crowley's grandma had a thing for reclusive racist dudes...

neonchris · Post by **neonchris** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 7:42 am

I read about that somewhere... I'll have to look it up again. I understood that he knew of Crowley but that they never actually met. He mentions Crowley in one of his stories but again I can't remember which one... maybe "the horror at red hook"??... I'm not being very useful am I?... sorry

Urisk · Post by **Urisk** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:48 am

It turns out that this is probably a myth. While Crowley did indeed invest some interest in Lovecraft's work and did want to meet him Lovecraft was having none of it. It's well-known that Lovecraft was a total skeptic even though he was very interested in religion and the supernatural. I think he probably thought of Crowley as a bit of a delusional nut case.

neonchris · Post by **neonchris** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 6:52 pm

that sounds about right... having said that I'd still have both of them at my ideal dinner party.

zeitgeist · Post by **zeitgeist** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 8:54 pm

As far as I know, they've never met. That would be pretty interesting, though, if they had. I can just imagine how that conversation would have gone!

PickmanFox · Post by **PickmanFox** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 7:45 pm

http://www.hplovecraft.com/life/myths.asp#crowley

There's no substantial connection. I don't know all that much about Crowley, but he doesn't sound interesting as anything but a fairly effective pre-internet troll.

As one article put it, "Crowley at his wickedest would hardly raise an eyebrow in Brighton nowadays. The charges levelled against him included not only sorcery but (gasp!) bisexuality, bigamy and (close your eyes for this next bit if you want) drug taking! His 'wickedest man' title has since been usurped by Saddam Hussein and Gary Glitter, not to mention miscellaneous blokes in Portsmouth who look a bit like paedophiles."

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