that currently cannot be reprinted because of copyright issues. Authors die, not leaving a designated literary heir, or does, and that heir dies without doing the same.

I believe it's even more complicated with our current copyright laws which basically keeps everything under copyright protection until the sun cools.

they get converted to ebooks anyway.

I do try avoid pirated stuff.

I fully expect people to be able to make a living, certainly authors as well. But our copyright laws could use a makeover.

If I'm not mistaken, our current copyright laws owe a lot to Disney, which is why it's something like the life of the author plus 75 years.

There is a lot to be said about things passing in to the public domain. Unfortunately, not much is going to pass into the public donain under the current laws.

It was pretty good. But then I love HPL

If you have the patience to wade through it. The language can be a little thick at times.

If you get right down to it "At The Mountains Of Madness" was sci-fi too since it was about space aliens building cities at the time of the dinosaurs using another species that were basically like "The Blob".

I started reading his books when I was 10. Went through everything I could find. Re-reading some, yes, he gets repetitious and too thick with the adjectives and adverbs. One cannot discount his intensity, though, and the vision of the world that he brought to his readers. Not too many writers have that gift.

Agree on AtMoM..I re-read that one recently and it still is a good ride.

I think it inspired "The Thing".

That's why we need a dormancy clause added to copyright law similar to trademark law. If the work is not actively sold/marketed for a period of two years the copyright reverts to the public domain.

author. In fact, that short a time would give publishing houses a very strong incentive not to actively sell or market something just to let it go into the public domain. Authors complain as it is about how publishing houses screw them over in regards to paying royalties in a timely manner.

Lifetime of the author plus a reasonable length of time, perhaps ten years, would be better.

I've had some things published a lot more than two years ago, and if someone wanted to reprint them I sure as heck should get the money, rather than those stories to be already in the public domain.

Would so be worth it to capture these three books and reissue.
"The ButterfLy Kid" ..Chester Anderson
"The Unicorn Girl" ..Michael Kurland
"The Probability Pad" ..T. A. Waters

From the late sixties...

Tikki