Frank Belknap Long started his literary career as a teenager in the 1920s by drawing on his deep appreciation for
Edgar Allan Poe; his initial work brought him into the sphere of
H. P. Lovecraft, who became a friend and strong influence—so strong, that Long’s short story “The Hounds of Tindalos” was the first story not by Lovecraft’s to be part of the Cthulhu Mythos.
By the end of the 1930s Long had turned his hand to science fiction, and this became his primary genre for most of the rest of his long career as a regular in pulp..." data-title="Книга Short Fiction">