H. P. Lovecraft had been a regular reader of The All-Story Magazine from its very first issue, January, 1905. Since he was born August 20, 1890, he was fourteen years old at the time he first discovered it. The issue in which The All-Story Magazine became All-Story Weekly, dated March 7, 1914, carried a letter two thousand words long which is an important and revealing document on the reading background and preferences of an H. P. Lovecraft now twenty-three years of age and a faithful reader of the Munsey pulps for nine continuous years. - from Under the Moons of Mars: A History and Anthology of The Scientific Romance in the Munsey Magazines, 1912-1920, edited and with a history by Sam Moskowitz, 373
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