The Crossover UniverseTM is a companion blog to the books Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1-2 by Win Scott Eckert, and the forthcoming Crossovers Expanded Volumes 1-2 by Sean Levin. Material excerpted from Crossovers Volumes 1 & 2 is © copyright 2010-2014 by Win Scott Eckert. All rights reserved. Material excerpted from Crossovers Expanded Volumes 1 & 2 is © copyright 2014-present by Sean Levin. All rights reserved.
Is this the first Silver John story that crossovers with a work not written by Wellman?
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure that previous to this John was brought in with connections to other works by Wellman. (The appearance of the Shonokins in one novel, and Judge Pursuivant in another.)
I'm pretty sure it is.
DeleteI thought so. I know the Necronomicon appeared in a John Thunestone story.
DeleteI always believe that Wellman deserved more recognition than he got. It's worth noting that Wellman was in some ways the opposite of Lovecraft. Lovecraft was unfortunately a racist, while Wellman's stories are mostly devoid of stereotypes. (Which itself goes against stereotypes since Wellman was a proud Southerner and Lovecraft was from New England.) In Lovecraft's stories good and evil are mere human concepts; in Wellman's the struggle between the two is a presiding theme. Lovecraft's prose was often broke (and in his early stories turgid, but he got better); Wellman's was smooth and simple.