Almost completely ignored by the mainstream press during his lifetime, H. P. Lovecraft has since come to be recognized as one of the greatest writers of classic horror, on a par with Edgar Allan Poe, Lovecraft's mentor. H. P. Lovecraft's work has been translated into more than a dozen languages, his tales adapted for film, television, and comic books, and he has been the subject of more scholarly study than any other writer of horror fiction save Poe.
Neil Gaiman used to be a journalist, but gave it all up to write comics, which he claims are a totally valid late-twentieth-century art form, and heâs even won awards for them, so thatâs all right. Heâs 5â11â tall, owns a number of black T-shirts, and although heâs not overly keen on banana daiquiris, is always very flattered when appreciative fans send him money (heâs read Terry Pratchettâs biography, and, although he doubts that this will have any effect, figures what the hell).