One fateful late 60’s afternoon I was sitting in study hall (tenth grade, age 16 or so) looking through the Modern Library omnibus volume entitled Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural. The final two stories in the book (as if they saved the best for last) were by somebody called H.P. Lovecraft; they were "The Rats in the Walls" and "The Dunwich Horror". The Lovecraft name was vaguely familiar.There were glancing mentions in Famous Monsters but there were no Lovecraft movies yet so I had no idea what to expect. I read "The Rats in the Walls" first. it was a fairly short story but I experienced a jolt unlike anything I was familiar with.
VONSHOLLYWOOD: PVS and HPL
