Autograph Hound Saturday, sure, but it’s always Autograph Hound Saturday in Autograph Hound Brian Leno’s redoubt. Here’s another one, which just fell into Brian’s clutches today — an hour ago.
Only the latest, in a legion. Let’s allow Brian to describe it:
Not that you needed to see another signature, but this one arrived this morning. Elliott O’Donnell was of course the ghost guy (who you gonna call?) — but he also wrote for Weird Tales.
In fact, as you know, he took the February 1928 cover away from Lovecraft and his story “The Call of Cthulhu.” Now a landmark in literary history.
Farnsworth Wright had already rejected this Lovecraft story once, I believe. The cover went to O’Donnell’s “The Ghost Table,” depicting a tough-looking table with a woman getting the vapors — and some numbskull holding a gun, eyeing the table with ill intent.
To be fair to old Farnsworth, Elliott was kind of a big deal back then with his haunted house and ghostly animal books. But it’s clear evidence that Wright certainly had no idea whatsoever about future literary classics.
Of course now that issue is worth a boatload of cash, courtesy Cthulhu. That ghost table looks like one mean son a bitch, but it’s nothing compared to Cthulhu.
No Ghost Table Mythos out there, is there?
