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E. Hoffmann Price
1898–1988
A prolific pulp "fictioneer," he wrote hundreds of stories across adventure, fantasy, horror, and science fiction, building a career that lasted more than six decades. He is especially remembered today for his work in Weird Tales and for collaborating with H. P. Lovecraft.
6 Audiobooks
Through the gates of the silver key
by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft, E. Hoffmann Price
Exile From Venus
by E. Hoffmann Price
The girl from Samarcand
by E. Hoffmann Price
Thirsty blades
by Otis Adelbert Kline, E. Hoffmann Price
A jest and a vengeance
by E. Hoffmann Price
Satan's garden
by E. Hoffmann Price
About the author
Born in California in 1898, Edgar Hoffmann Trooper Price served in World War I and later graduated from West Point in 1923. Before long he turned to fiction, selling stories to the booming pulp magazines and developing a reputation for speed, range, and sheer productivity.
Price wrote in many popular genres, but he became most closely linked with weird fiction and fantasy. He published frequently in Weird Tales, often drew on settings shaped by his interest in the Middle East and Asia, and moved easily between adventure yarns, supernatural tales, crime stories, and science fiction.
Readers of classic fantasy and horror often know him best through his connection to H. P. Lovecraft, including their collaboration on "Through the Gates of the Silver Key." Even so, his own long career stands out on its own terms: he kept publishing for decades and remains an important figure from the golden age of the pulps.