It’s been quite a ride for Howard Phillips Lovecraft. When he died in 1937 ... started to travel into the realms of the unreal with books such as The Naked Lunch and The Soft Machine.
When Putnam demanded even more re-writes, the Putnam version was sold to Arkham House and became Lovecraft's Book. The original 160,000-word manuscript was lost, but a carbon-copy was found in 2000 ...