I have long been fascinated by the works of H.P. Lovecraft and the authors who surrounded and associated with him (and, of course, with Weird Tales magazine, their primary showcase and venue). Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, Frank Belknap Long, and so many others…including Carl Jacobi (1908-1997). I never got to meet Carl, but I was certainly aware of his literary shadow. He had the requisite Arkham House books—Revelations in Black (1947), Portraits in Moonlight (1964), Disclosures in Scarlet (1972)—and I certainly saw his work often enough in print. I even bought his story “The Tunnel” when I was co-editing Weird Tales in 1988. But for some reason, much like Frank Belknap Long, Carl Jacobi never really fired my collector’s interests—until recently, when I
