When Chaugnar Wakes (ePub)

About the Author: Frank Belknap Long, Jr. by Perry M. GraysonFrank Belknap Long, Jr. (APRIL 27, 1901 - JANUARY 3, 1994) is the prolific World Fantasy Award winning author of such books as The Hounds of Tindalos, The Horror from the Hills and The Rim of the Unknown. Incidentally, those titles are three of the most sought-after collector's items published by Arkham House, the specialty press founded in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to immortalize the writings of H. P. Lovecraft.Lovecraft discovered Long and took him under his wing after reading FBL's story "The Eye Above the Mantel" in The United Amateur in 1921. The two became best friends during the early 1920s while Lovecraft lived in New York. They exchanged hundreds of letters over the course of 15 years. The Lovecraft association tends to keep "Belknapius" (as he was called by HPL) in HPL's shadow, but Long's body of work speaks for itself.Fiction-wise, FBL primarily wrote in the realms of science fiction, fantasy, horror, adventure and mystery. Over the course of his seven-decade career Long wrote over 300 stories, poems and articles, many of which have been widely reprinted in over 80 major publisher anthologies. Long's first professionally published story was "The Desert Lich," which appeared in the November 1924 issue of Weird Tales. His first book was A Man from Genoa and Other Poems (1926). The Long legacy is an important one in the annals of 20th century pop culture. He helped shape the fantasy, horror and science fiction fields while Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimov were still in their teens. Long was one of the few early science fiction writers to make the transition from the 1930s Astounding Stories to exacting editor John W. Campbell's Astounding Science Fiction and Unknown during SF's Golden Age. In the pages of Astounding and Unknown, Long appeared alongside Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Theodore Sturgeon, A.E. van Vogt, Fritz Leiber, Henry Kuttner, C.L. Moore, Eric Frank Russell and many other

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