There is controversy over the copyright status of many of the fiction works of American horror writer H.P.Lovecraft, especially his later works. Lovecraft had specified that the young R. H. Barlow would serve as executor of his literary estate, but these instructions had not been incorporated into his will. Nevertheless his surviving aunt carried out his expressed wishes, and Barlow was given charge of the massive and complex literary estate upon Lovecraft's death. Origins of the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.P.Lovecraft