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L.P. Turland
(1899-1963)
Links of Interest
HPL Archive
Clark Ashton Smith
August Derleth
John Grogan
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LOWELL PERCIVAL
TURLAND (19 September 1899 – 3
August 1953)
was a relatively obscure horror short-story author and
poet, published primarily in the 1930s in magazines such as Incredible
Stories, Weird Tales, Tales From Beyond, Strange Stories Quarterly, The Aether, and Macabre.
BIOGRAPHY
Much of Turland's work was published in lesser pulp fiction
and horror magazines with limited print runs; many of the titles
listed here are known only from Turland's own writing diaries, which
he meticulously kept from 1924 to 1944, when he stopped writing
entirely and retired to a small home in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Turland corresponded intermittently with other noted authors of his
time, namely H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth, and John Grogan. He often
wrote in particular to Clark Ashton Smith, whose comments and praise
must have provided validation for Turland, who often felt his work was
misunderstood and mishandled by a pulp press constantly seeking
"lurid, vulgar tales appealing chiefly to prurient
curiosity."
Never in more than merely fair health, he developed acute appendicitis
suddenly in late July of 1953, and died in hospital eight days later
on August 3rd.
PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Crawlspace (1920)
The Liquescent Horror (1922)
The Tower in the Distance (1922)
What Night May Bring (1928)
The Black Barge (1929)
The Parallel Vibration (1930)
Concerning the Peculiar Circumstances of Hector Delgado's Death (1931)
The Underneathers (1931)
The Fifth Passenger (1932)
The Walking Nightmare (1932)
The Guitarist (1932)
Adeline (1933)
Clergy of the Damned (1934)
The Tower of Glass (1933)
The Unknowable (1934)
The Conscript (1935)
After the recent ownership extension to U.S. copyright
law, these stories are once again copyrighted material! However, the
Turland Estate graciously allowed their reproduction here. For
reprinting information, contact The L.P. Turland Estate, 99401
Haverbrook Ave., Provincetown, MA 02657-9932.
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