HP Lovecraft died on this day back in 1937.
Or did he?
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is indeed dead. But the legacy he left behind will live forever.
I first read HPL when I became manager of a sci-fi/comics shop. One night I was deep into one of his creepier long tales and the wind blew a window shade hard enough to make it slap against the frame. I damn near shot straight through the roof from my comfy chair. Truly, he was the inventor of the "weird tale." 
I may have read The Dunwich Horror, but it's been so long I don't remember. Thanks for the links I will check them out. 
Great mix of sci-fi and horror.
Also on this date, the first Internet domain name was registered. I remember having to key IP addresses by hand. It was a PITA. I had a spreadsheet to keep track of them. Garrison Keillor had a wonderful one-minute summary of the history of the Internet this morning:
The first Internet domain name was registered on this date in 1985, by a company called Symbolics.com. Before the Internet, there was ARPANET, which came online in 1969. A project of the Advanced Research Projects Agency, ARPANET originally connected large computers at four universities in California and Utah; it was used by computer experts, engineers, scientists, and librarians. Email was developed for ARPANET in 1972, and file sharing in 1973. ARPANET expanded and inspired other networks over the next decade. More and more academic and government institutions adopted the networking technology.
Prior to the advent of the domain name system that we use today, hosts were represented by their numerical address on a computer network. But the addresses were hard to remember, and if the site moved to a different IP — Internet Protocol — address, it had to adopt a new string of numbers. Associating the IPs with a name made it easier for people to memorize, and changing a location only required changing the numerical address associated with the name.
A list of early domains is populated by the usual suspects: tech companies like IBM, Intel, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett-Packard. But the little-known company called Symbolics.com got there first.
In 1985, only six companies held .com domains. By 1992, there were fewer than 15,000. In 2010, there were 84 million separate domains, pouring $1.5 trillion USD into the global economy.
(The Writer's Almanac)
http://download.publicradio.org/podcast/writers_almanac/2012/03/twa_20120315_64.mp3
...and is running on the Republican ticket
but in nothing else those links will provide me entertainment for the day 
see if they sell old magazines. Heavy Metal #31 (October 1979) was a special H.P. Lovecraft issue.
"SACRED"!
