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At the same time Lovecraft's fiction achieved its first major public acknowledgment a considerable number of 'cult-type' personalities achieved the notice of the counterculture. Fiction writer, mystic, and religious leader, L. Ron Hubbard was gaining influence during the 60s - 70s and would eventually become leader and founder of Scientology. HPL and his friend Frank Belknap Long met Hubbard briefly at a gathering of literary types in NYC. The year was 1936. Lovecraft was very impressed with Hubbard who was a very young man at the time. Long wrote of the meeting in his meandering biography of HPL entitled: HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT: DREAMER ON THE NIGHTSIDE (pp 190- 191). Lovecraft made the comment. "That red-headed young man is most extraordinary". Unfortunately Long didn't give us specific information for why Lovecraft thought so. (Much thanks to noted Lovecraft student Martin Andersson who is known in his native Sweden as "That Lovecraft guy!" for tracking down the location in Long's book of the HPL, Hubbard meeting). Hubbard went on to become quite a controversial figure. He is discussed in some depth in Bill Cooper's book : BEHOLD A PALE HORSE. Milton William Cooper, May 6, 1943 - Nov. 5, 2001 was a popular writer within the underground UFO community. His book explores a variety of conspiracy theories and was generally very negative in his assessment of Hubbard and his many spurious claims of secret knowledge and mystical experiences. L. Ron Hubbard had enjoyed success as a pulp fiction writer and gained an early leadership position among amateur literary groups. His later efforts in basically "inventing his own religion" reflect somewhat of the very thing Lovecraft himself was working at in his fiction. Lovecraft, however, never failed to assure all those who showed interest in his many mythic references that they were all purely fictional and had no basis in reality. (Exhibit 444)

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