MitgliedOsBrooks

I collect H.P. Lovecraft, H.L. Mencken, M.P. Shiel, Jack London, Carroll John Daly, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur O. Friel, Arthur Machen, Hugh Pendexter, Iain M. Banks, Robert W. Chambers, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Gordon R. Young, Christopher Priest, W. Clark Russell, Harold Lamb, George Worts, Guy Boothby, and Jack Vance. Plus various pulp
magazine titles like ADVENTURE, ARGOSY, and DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY.

I started collecting in 1970. For my birthday that year I received a copy of Clark Ashton Smith's TALES OF SCIENCE AND
SORCERY. I embraced my doom and haven't looked back. Since then I've accumulated many books. The numbers wax and wane.
I'm constantly weeding. Selling books I can bear to part with to buy other books I won't ever part with... Not much hope there. The books share the house with my wife (who
tolerates my habit with a great deal of patience), two teenage children (who are sure their father is quite mad), three cats, and two and a half dogs (one is an English Mastiff named Cerebus weighing 225 lbs and that surely accounts for the dog and a half). And I love baseball.
Despite the fact that the teams I root for (the Orioles and
the Indians) seem to be forever in the dumper.