I've placed a review of Jason Colavito's book The Cult of Alien Gods,
which claims that H.P. Lovecraft first invented the ancient-astronaut
(extraterrestrial aliens visiting the earth in the distant past) theme,
and that Lovecraft was the source for the ancient-astronaut them in
popular culture, here:
http://www.geocities.com/clorebeast/colavito.htm
--
Dan Clore
My collected fiction, _The Unspeakable and Others_:
http://tinyurl.com/2gcoqt
Lord We˙rdgliffe & Necronomicon Page:
http://tinyurl.com/292yz9
News & Views for Anarchists & Activists:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo
Strange pleasures are known to him who flaunts the
immarcescible purple of poetry before the color-blind.
-- Clark Ashton Smith, "Epigrams and Apothegms"
