HPL

HPL is a fanzine by Meade and Penny Frierson devoted to H. P. Lovecraft.

The first issue ofHPL was published in 1972 in Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A., in a limited run of 1,000 copies. It was 143 pages.

Artwork was by Herb Arnold, Richard Corben, Lee Brown Coye, Stephan Fabian, Danny Frolich (NOLAzine), Jim Garrison, Tim Kirk, Robert Kline, Harry O. Morris, Gary Myers, Mike Scott, John Swanson, and Denis Tiani.

Poetry was by R. Alain Everts (The Outsider), and Meade Frierson.

Articles were by Robert Bloch, Joseph Payne Brennan (Macabre, Essence), William Crawford, R. Alain Everts, William Scott Home, Fritz Leiber, E. Hoffman Price, Gerry de la Ree (Clark Ashton Smith - Artist), J. Vernon Shea, Stuart Schiff, Richard L. Tierney, James Wade, George Wetzel.

Also included was an interview with Frank Belknap Long, by Stuart Schiff.

Fiction was by Herb Arnold, A.A. Attanasio (Tamlacht), Walter C DeBill, J. Ramsey Campbell, W. Paul Ganley (Eerie Country), William Scott Home, Robert E. Howard, John Jacob, Brian Lumley, Gary Myers, Joseph F. Pumilia, Jerry Saunders, John Sellers, Darrell Schweitzer, Robert C. Sudol, James Wade, Bill Wallace, Manly Wade Wellman, George T. Wetzel, and Colin Wilson.