/lit/ - Literature

>>19728475
> Irvin S. Cobbs was an American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky
> He wrote for the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper, as the highest paid staff reporter in the United States.
> also wrote stories in the horror genre, such as "Fishhead" and "The Unbroken Chain". "Fishhead" has been cited as an inspiration for H. P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth, while "The Unbroken Chain" was a model for Lovecraft's "The Rats in the Walls"
> Some of his works were adapted for the sliver screen, two of them were directed by john ford
> is now forgotten in today’s world

>>18155213
Despite being very famous in his time, he is now only know by a handful of film buffs and lovecraft enthusiast. Irvin S. Cobbs is a very underrated writer in today’s world of literature. He wrote in many different genres including horror, comedies, westerns, travel, speechs and drama. Especially comedies and drama, as he’s considered himself a humorist. His short story, FishHead, inspired Lovecraft to write his novella, the shadow over innsmouth. Irvin Cobb also had a great prose for his stories, very much like Charles Dicken’s prose. Cobb had only got two movie adaptations based off his collection of short stories about his character, Judge Priest. Both of which were directed by John Ford but the first one had Will Rodgers (another man who is greatly underrated these days) as the character. Irvin also appeared In Will’s last movie before died in a plane accident called steamboat round the bend. If you want to start reading Irvin s. Cobbs, you got to read The Escape of Mr. Trimm: His Plight and other Plights. As it includes the story fishhead I mentioned before and a judge priest story.