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1. The first erotic novel with a Mythos tie-in was THE EROTIC SPECTACLES (1971), which involves Miskatonic University.

2. The first pornographic film with a Mythos tie-in was TEENAGE TWINS (1976), which involves the Necronomicon (and a real set of twins).

3. One of the first comic adaptations of Lovecraft was "Portrait of Death" in WEIRD TERROR #1 (1952) by Rudy Palais; an unlicensed version of "Pickman's Model" starring a female reporter.

4. In 1916, H. P. Lovecraft used the pseudonym "Elizabeth Berkeley" to publish a poem, as part of a wider plan to create a female pseudonym for shared creative endeavors. The name would later be used by Winifred Virginia Jackson during their collaborations.

5. TEENAGE TWINS (1976) is also the first pornographic appearance for any of Robert E. Howard's creations; the incantation read from the Necronomicon in the film is taken from Howard's "The Shadow Kingdom."

6. RE-ANIMATOR (1985) is lauded for what might be the first visual pun on film: the "head giving head" scene.

7. RE-ANIMATOR (1985) spawned a pornographic parody. RE-PENETRATOR (2004) won an Adult Video News Award for Most Outrageous Sex Scene.

8. The first parody of Lovecraft's style was by a woman! Amateur journalist and Edith Miniter took the piss out of her friend Lovecraft in 1921 with “Falco Ossifracus.”

9. Female fans were vocal at WEIRD TALES and other pulps. One of the most ardent fans of Lovecraft was Gertrude Hemcken, who had the most fan-letters published in WT.

10. Margaret Brundage was a major cover artist for WEIRD TALES, famed for her nude and near-nude female figures. An argument started among fans. Lovecraft didn't weigh in publicly, but privately disliked the practice, though he admitted it had sales value.

11. The first published collaboration between Lovecraft and a woman was "Poetry and the Gods" with Anna Helen Crofts - published 100 years ago this year in 1920.

12. Lovecraft met nunsploitation in the graphic novel EL CONVENTO INFERNAL ("The Convent of Hell," 1996) by Ignacio Noé and Ricardo Barreiro, which includes a copy of a Necronomicon and an invocation of Yog-Sothoth. Partially censored in the US publication.

13. Winifred Virginia Jackson, who collaborated with Lovecraft on "The Crawling Chaos" and "The Green Meadow," actually created a map for the latter.

14. During their courtship, Lovecraft and Sonia H. Greene were walking along a beach; she thought it had the makings of a great story. He offered to help her write it, and she kissed him. The story became "The Horror at Martin's Beach."

15. Cthulhu got his first facial in Jaxon's "The Tale of the Leather Nun's Grandmother" in the comic TALES FROM THE LEATHER NUN (1973).

16. Brian McNaughton wrote the first Innsmouth erotic novel, TIDE OF DESIRE (1983), under the penname Sheena Clayton.

17. Before his marriage, Lovecraft reportedly "read up" on being a husband, probably taking suggestions from his friend George Kirk (a bookdealer who sometimes dealt in erotica) and James F. Morton (who was in a free love group in the 1890s).

18. The first female fan to contribute to the Mythos was Grace Stillman, whose poem "The Woods of Averoigne" was published in WEIRD TALES in 1934.

19. Another female fan of the '30s and '40s was Virginia "Nanek" Anderson, who composed the poem "Shadow Over Innsmouth" (1942), part of a series of tributes to her favorite pulp writers.

20. In 1986, Dr. Robert M. Price published a pastiche of Lovecraft and confession pulps titled "I Wore The Brassiere of Doom!" as by "Sally Theobald". The hoax inadvertently worked on a French publisher, who presented it as a real Lovecraft story.

21. One of the more obscure Lovecraftian pornographic is "Beyond Tickling" - a 15-minute tickle-fetish video based (very) loosely off of "From Beyond."

22. In 1933, as Sonia was traveling through Europe, she was in Germany while Adolf Hitler was giving a speech. She later asked Lovecraft to compile her travel notes, including the incident. They were eventually published as EUROPEAN GLIMPSES (1988).

23. The homosexual Mythos comic PORNOMICON (2006) by Logan Kowalsky includes an homage to Mike Mignola and his Hellboy comics.

24. The only female author in THE SHUB-NIGGURATH CYCLE (1994) is Margaret L. Carter with "The Prey of the Goat." She would later write a couple Mythos romance stories.

25. "The Dunwich Horror" references Arthur Machen's "The Great God Pan," which scandalized Victorian audiences with its implications of pregnancy and sexuality. Clark Ashton Smith was inspired by TGGP to write "The Nameless Offspring."

26. When her fiance died in 1936, Lovecraft kept up a lively correspondence with fellow WT author C. L. Moore to keep her spirits up. When Robert E. Howard died the same year, she wrote to his father with her sympathies. Both died from self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head.

27. H. P. Lovecraft inadvertently introduced C. L. Moore to her future husband Henry Kuttner, a young WT author and a correspondent of Lovecraft's. They would marry in 1940.

28. August Derleth wrote the first groping of a bare breast in a Mythos story in "The Shadow in the Attic" (1964).

29. The first transexual (kinda) Mythos comic was John Blackburn's "Coley" series, published by Eros Comix in the 1990s. It featured a male-to-female and female-to-male transition.

30. Lovecraft's collaborations with Zealia Brown Reed Bishop "The Curse of Yig," "The Mound," and "Medusa's Coil" were inspired by stories that Zealia had heard from friends and family.

31. Robert E. Howard once recommended that Lovecraft try to land a story in the Spicy magazines by writing up one of his own sex adventures.

32. Will Murray made the case that E. Hoffmann Price's Spicy story "Tarbis of the Lake" was conceived as an unfinished collaboration with Lovecraft when he and HPL were in New Orleans writing "Through the Gates of the Silver Key."

33. C. L. Moore's lone contribution to the Mythos was the first part of the round-robin "The Challenge from Beyond" (1935); other Mythos authors who took part were Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and Frank Belknap Long.

34. The first adult anime explicitly featuring the Mythos MYSTERY OF THE NECRONOMICON (1999), although it provided the inspiration for films like FIGHT! ICZER ONE (1983).

35. H. P. Lovecraft had a daughter - technically. Florence Carol Greene was the daughter of Sonia Greene by her first marriage; Lovecraft met her, but she was out of the house by the time Sonia and Howard married. Gained fame as journalist Carol Weld.

36. Edward Lee's TROLLEY NO. 1852 (2009), built around a fragment of Lovecraft's (previously also used by J. Chapman Minske in "The Thing in the Moonlight") gives H. P. Lovecraft's penis as 11.5 inches long.

37. H. P. Lovecraft, although not an admirer of pornography, came to accept nudity in art and literature, and even recommended mail-order distributor Falstaff Press to his friend Lee McBride White.

38. Lovecraft's former wife declared in an interview that one way HPL expressed his affection "was to wrap his ‘pinkey’ finger around mine and say, ‘Umph!’”

39. Lovecraft declared that his greatest "height of sex-desire" was age 19.

40. Muriel C. Eddy (wife of C. M. Eddy, Jr.) reportedly introduced Lovecraft to his revision client Hazel Heald; they had dinner at Heald's house, where she made fried chicken, one of his favorites. Muriel Eddy believed there was a budding romance there.

41. Barbara Crampton, one of the stars of RE-ANIMATOR, FROM BEYOND, and other Lovecraftian films, did a photoshoot for the December 1986 issue of PLAYBOY titled "Simply Beastly" which included props and sets inspired by FROM BEYOND.

42. An abridged, edited, updated version of "The Rats in the Walls" was published in ZEST MAGAZINE FOR MEN (Jan 1956). Among the changes was the name of the cat.

43. Lovecraft wrote a mildly raunchy poem. "The Pathetick History of Sir Wilful Wildrake" (1921) was never intended for publication, but you can read it here: http://hplovecraft.hu/index.php?page=library_etexts&id=382&lang=angol

44. Jesús Franco's softcore sexploitation film SUCCUBUS (1968) was originally released as "Necronomicon – Geträumte Sünden." As with H. R. Giger's NECRONOMICON (1977), the film draws inspiration from Lovecraft but has no direct connection with the Mythos.

45. Lovecraft's major editor for his fiction in book form during his lifetime was Christine Campbell Thomson, who edited the Not At Night anthology series. So popular that they were pirated in the United States! Sortof. It gets complicated.

46. After his death, female pulp editors like Dorothy McIlwraith (WEIRD TALES) and Mary Gnaedinger (FAMOUS FANTASTIC MYSTERIES, FANTASTIC NOVELS, A. MERRITT'S FANTASY MAGAZINE) helped keep his fiction - and the Mythos - in publication.

47. Lovecraft did revision work for David Van Bush that included editing Practical Psychology and Sex Life (1922; revised 1927), which includes sections entitled “Women at Forty” and “Women More Attractive at Forty” that expound on the sexual drive of older women.

48. Lovecraft knew several homosexuals during his life, including Hart Crane, Samuel Loveman, and R. H. Barlow. Lovecraft's ability to recognize homosexuality, however, appears to have been extremely limited if the individual did not have "effeminate" manners.

49. Dirk W. Mosig made an important contribution to Lovecraft studies with "The Four Faces of 'The Outsider'" (1974); it led directly to Mollie Burleson's pivotal response “The Outsider: A Woman?” (1990).

50. Lovecraft's mother Susan died after surgery to remove her gallbladder; HPL married his wife Sonia not long after. When Sonia was hospitalized and they wanted to remove her gallbladder, Lovecraft advised her against it.

51. "Medusa's Coil," one of Lovecraft's most controversial ghost-writing jobs for Zealia Bishop, was not published during his lifetime, only seeing print in 1939 - and that in edited form.

52. The first Mythos book published by a black woman was EX LIBRIS MISKATONICI (1993) by the late Joan C. Stanley. Long out of print, it was recently re-published in a new edition by Necronomicon Press.

53. H. P. Lovecraft's "Herbert West--Reanimator" was remixed into a homoerotic version of itself by Lula Lisbon, titled "Herburt East: Refuckinator" (2012). Lovecraft is not the only WEIRD TALES author to get this particular public domain eroticization treatment.

54. Although they are not known to have met, Henry Miller and H. P. Lovecraft both lived in Brooklyn for a time in the 1920s, and both submitted stories to THE BLACK CAT. Their hypothetical collaboration "Tropic of Cthulhu" was written by Peter Cannon.

55. Zealia Brown Reed actually hired Lovecraft to help her write contemporary romance stories for the pulps, since that's what she was interested in writing. He did actually revise several of those manuscripts for her, although the stories are now lost.

56. The incident of bestiality in "The Unnamable" is based on a real life incident that Lovecraft read about in Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana (1702). Lovecraft, however, did not know all the details of the incident, since Mather did not record them.

57. Unused titles for various Mythos-themed erotic works that have appeared in fiction include: “C’TH’ORGY,” “The Dunwich Whorer,” “The Horror of Red Hooker,” “The Cunts of Ulthar,” “Beyond the Walls of Sheep,” and “At the Mammaries of Madness.”

58. While there is no real doubt of Lovecraft's authorship, there is no solid evidence that "The Horror in the Burying-Ground" (1937), published by Hazel Heald in WEIRD TALES shortly after Lovecraft's death was actually one of their collaborations. No manuscript or notes survive.

59. Lovecraft never signed the final divorce papers with his wife, so they remained legally married until his death. This technically made her third marriage bigamous, but nobody knew at the time and by the time Sonia found out, her third husband had died as well.

60. A woman living in Boston wrote to Lovecraft, claiming to be a descendant of Rebecca Nurse, who had been executed during the Salem Witch Trials. Lovecraft took such claims of occult connections in stride, and never claimed he had any particular unusual knowledge.