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Night Chills by Kirby McCauley6/28/2023 ![]() While he had been a devotee of the poems of Edgar Allan Poe before that, he was inspired by the H.P. ![]() Wollheim's Viking Portable Novels of Science and was hooked.Īt around the same age (15 or 16), he was inspired to write poetry by August Derleth's fantasy verse anthology Dark of the Moon: Poems of fantasy and the Macabre which he read several times in the Mason City Public Library. A few years later, aged 15, he read Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time in Donald A. Lovecraft's stories (The Rats in the Walls and The Dunwich Horror) in the anthology Great Tales of Horror and the Supernatural edited by Wise and Frazer (1949) at the age of 11, but was not especially impressed by them since there were no conventional ghosts in the stories. ![]() In the summer of 1942 his family moved to Mason City, where he went through the public school system until completing high school. ![]()
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