![]() ![]() (Bergier and Pauwels popularised Lovecraft in France, so the influence there is undeniable.) Morning of the Magicians became something of a countercultural source text, though von Däniken at first forgot to mention it in his own book’s bibliography, until a lawsuit reminded him how liberally he’d borrowed from it. Jason Colavito, in his short book Origins of the Space Gods (which he has made available as a free ebook), traces the “Ancient Astronaut theory” from Helena Blavatsky and Charles Fort to Lovecraft and then to Jacques Bergier and Louis Pauwels’ The Morning of the Magicians (1960). ![]() It’s likely, though, that von Däniken never read Lovecraft. ![]() ![]() I thought, after writing about Margaret Murray’s Witch Cult in Western Europe - a work of questionable scholarship that nevertheless went on to influence popular culture, including the fiction of H P Lovecraft - I’d write about a similar book, from half a century later, which was actually (if indirectly) influenced by Lovecraft. ![]()
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