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James Russell


James is the LfO nonfiction editor, and a remarkable job he has done assembling that area of the site...



James Russell was born in 1974 and lives in Sydney, Australia. He was introduced to the works of H.P. Lovecraft in 1989 at the tender age of fourteen, and hasn't looked back since then. His fondness for Lovecraft found expression in his moderately extensive collection of Arkham House and Necronomicon Press publications, and also in an attempt to write a biographical essay on the great man, starting with a (perhaps mercifully) lost 16-page first effort, finally culminating in a 36,000-odd word essay on the life and complete fiction called 20th Century Gothic. Apart from an ill-advised attempt to complete Lovecraft's unfinished story "The Descendant" back in 1990 (unaware at the time of Lin Carter's previous attempt at the same thing), the stories featured here represent his first attempts at Mythos fiction. An assortment of James' non-Mythos work is available online at his website.


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