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New York: Hippocampus Press, 2011. Trade paperback, New,. Barbara Siebert. New York: Hippocampus Press:, 2011. Trade paperback, New, 493 pp.<br/> Cover artwork by: Barbara Siebert "James Ferdinand Morton was one of H. P. Lovecraft's most learned and accomplished correspondents: the recipient of a B.A. and M.A. from Harvard, Morton served as a leading figure in the Esperanto Association of North America, the Thomas Paine Natural History Association, and other organizations, and was a longtime curator of the Paterson (New Jersey) Museum. Lovecraft's correspondence with Morton reveals the full range of his and Morton's intellectual interests, ranging from freethought to socialism, from amateur journalism to crossword puzzles, from race relations to the rise of Mussolini and Hitler. Along the way, Lovecraft provides engaging accounts-many times written in piquant slang-of his travels across New England, his diet, and other details that bring the dreamer from Providence to… Read More

New York: Hippocampus Press, 2003. Trade paperback, Fine,. Anastasia Damianakos. New York: Hippocampus Press:, 2003. Trade paperback, Fine, 288 pp.<br/> Cover artwork by: Anastasia Damianakos Lovecraft wrote of Gilpin: "He is intellectually exactly like me save in degree. In degree he is immensely my superior - he is what I should like to be but have not the brains enough to be." 27 of Lovecraft's letters to Galpin survive and are printed here. They cover a period of more than twenty years and touch on amateur journalism, socialism, Lovecraft's dreams, his early stories and more. Edited and annotated by Joshi and Schultz, this hefty volume should help to shed some light on a side of Lovecraft previously unexamined.

New York: Hippocampus Press, 2014. Trade paperback, New,. New York: Hippocampus Press:, 2014. Trade paperback, New, 470 pp.<br/> "H. P. Lovecraft did not have a great many female correspondents, but among the most notable was Elizabeth Toldridge, a poet living in Washington, D.C., who began corresponding with Lovecraft in the late 1920s. Over their decade-long exchange of letters, Lovecraft discussed at length the aesthetic basis of poetry and the methods by which poetic expression could be made relevant in an age of science. He came to recognize that his earlier attempts at writing eighteenth-century-style verse were aesthetic failures, and he attempted to put his new poetic theories into practice with Fungi from Yuggoth (1929-30) and other poems. Lovecraft also extensively discussed the current political and economic situation, recognizing that the onset of the Great Depression necessitated a political shift-one that ultimately led him to moderate socialism. Anne Tillery Renshaw was a… Read More

New York: Hippocampus Press, 2019. Trade paperback, New,. New York: Hippocampus Press:, 2019. Trade paperback, New, 553 pp.<br/> "It is safe to say that Donald Wandrei (1908-1987) was one of Lovecraft's leading correspondents. In 1924 Wandrei came in touch with his literary idol, Clark Ashton Smith, and two years later Smith referred him to Lovecraft. There began a rich, expansive communication in which both sides of the correspondence are preserved largely intact, allowing for an unprecedented glimpse into the life and beliefs of the two authors. Wandrei began as a fiery, cosmic poet in the tradition of Smith, but later took to writing weird fiction. He persuaded Farnsworth Wright of Weird Tales to accept Lovecraft's seminal tale 'The Call of Cthulhu,' just as Lovecraft urged Wright to take Wandrei's 'The Red Brain.' Lovecraft introduced Wandrei to his fellow Midwesterner August Derleth, and after Lovecraft's death they founded Arkham House to publish the… Read More

New York: Hippocampus Press, 2015. Trade paperback, New,. New York: Hippocampus Press:, 2015. Trade paperback, New, 550 pp.<br/> "H. P. Lovecraft's generous tutelage of younger literary colleagues earned him their lifelong devotion and admiration. Few profited more by his assistance than Robert Bloch, who went on to become the celebrated author of Psycho and other classic works of horror and suspense. Establishing a correspondence with Lovecraft when he was sixteen, Bloch learned so much about the craft of writing-and about other matters-that he later stated: 'Lovecraft was my university.' This volume brings together Lovecraft's complete extant correspondence with Bloch as well as with such other young writers, editors, and fans of the 1930s as Kenneth Sterling (who collaborated with Lovecraft on 'In the Walls of Eryx'), Donald A. Wollheim (editor of the 'Phantagraph' and a leading figure in science fiction in the decades that followed), Willis Conover… Read More

New York: Hippocampus Press, 2016. Trade paperback, New,. Anastasia Damianakos. New York: Hippocampus Press:, 2016. Trade paperback, New, 441 pp.<br/> Cover artwork by: Anastasia Damianakos "Lovecraft's correspondents were scattered all over the country, and he found it engaging to be in touch with individuals from those areas of the United States where he had never been. Letters to two correspondents from the Pacific Northwest, Duane W. Rimel and F. Lee Baldwin, fill the bulk of this volume, and they reveal Lovecraft's customary role of tutor and mentor to young devotees of weird fiction in the 1930s. As a novice writer of weird fiction, Rimel came in touch with Lovecraft to seek assistance on improving his work and getting it published in pulp or fan magazines. In the course of their relationship, Lovecraft helped Rimel on as many as three stories-"The Sorcery of Alphar," "The Tree on the Hill," and "The Disinterment." He gave Rimel valuable advice… Read More

New York: Hippocampus Press, 2023. Trade paperback, New,. New York: Hippocampus Press:, 2023. Trade paperback, New, 595 pp.<br/> "H. P. Lovecraft's literary career ended very much the way it began-with amateur journalism. In 1914, he had entered the United Amateur Press Association and gained lifelong friends and a renewed will to live and write. In 1930, Lovecraft's attendance of the annual convention of the National Amateur Press Association led to a renewed interest in the multifarious issues agitating amateurdom at that time. Encouraged by a new colleague, Helm C. Spink, Lovecraft took on the role of poetry critic for the NAPA's Bureau of Critics. Hyman Bradofsky, whose Californian allowed an unprecedented amount of space for lengthy contributions, persuaded Lovecraft to write numerous articles and to steer other amateurs in Bradofsky's direction. Lovecraft then became embroiled in heated controversies and feuds, many of them revolving around the argumentative Ralph W.… Read More

New York: Hippocampus Press, 2020. Trade paperback, New,. New York: Hippocampus Press:, 2020. Trade paperback, New, 498 pp.<br/> "Cole introduced Lovecraft to John T. Dunn, a young man in the Providence area who helped to found the Providence Amateur Press Club. Dunn, as an outspoken Irish-American, clashed with Lovecraft repeatedly on the question of Irish independence. Some years later, Lovecraft became acquainted with Alfred Galpin, who proved to be a prodigy in the realms of literature, philosophy, and music. Their correspondence also lasted for decades and contains some of Lovecraft's most profound discussions of weird fiction, materialism, atheism, and other subjects.. .. Throughout these letters, Lovecraft reveals himself to be learned, courteous, patient, and at times outspoken, revealing many sides of his personality not always visible in his weird fiction. The letters have been thoroughly annotated, and a great deal of ancillary material by the correspondents in question has… Read More

New York: Hippocampus Press, 2021. Trade paperback, Very Good,. New York: Hippocampus Press:, 2021. Trade paperback, Very Good, 492 pp.<br/> Rear cover scuffed. "As in all the volumes of this series, the letters to Price and Searight have been extensively annotated by the editors. Ancillary material includes Price's distinctive recipe for Indian curry and several of Searight's poems on weird and cosmic subjects." This is a print-on-demand edition.

West Warwick: Necronomicon Press, 1994. First edition, Chapbook (stapled wraps), Fine,. West Warwick: Necronomicon Press:, 1994. First edition, Chapbook (stapled wraps), Fine, 42 pp.<br/> An as new copy.

New York: Hippocampus Press, 2019. Trade paperback, Fine,. New York: Hippocampus Press:, 2019. Trade paperback, Fine, 576 pp.<br/> An as new copy. "Wilfred B. Talman was a late member of the Kalem Club, the group of literati who gathered around H. P. Lovecraft during his years in New York (1924-26). In the 1920s Talman attempted to write weird fiction, and Lovecraft's letters to him feature extensive advice on the story he revised for Talman, 'Two Black Bottles'; Lovecraft also wrote a 6000-word synopsis for a story, 'The Pool,' that Talman never wrote; the synopsis is here presented in an appendix. But Talman soon moved to other interests, and in his correspondence Lovecraft discusses such diverse subjects as Dutch settlement of the American colonies, the Greek calendar, and his wide-ranging travels."

First edition trade paperback original, a Fine copy, new and unread. The latest Hippocampus collection of Lovecraft letters, and it should be quite interesting, as I think Lovecraft heavily influenced Moore's early work.

New York: Hippopcampus Press, 2018. Trade paperback, New,. New York: Hippopcampus Press:, 2018. Trade paperback, New, 628 pp.<br/> "This volume presents Lovecraft's correspondence with Maurice W. Moe, who knew Lovecraft for nearly the entirety of the latter's adult life, from 1914 to 1937. Moe, a high school teacher in Wisconsin, was a devoted amateur journalist and also a fervent and evangelical Christian, and both subjects elicited sharp discussions from Lovecraft. The Providence writer's years-long assistance on Moe's book about the appreciation of poetry, Doorways to Poetry, may have helped inspire his later weird verse, including the Fungi from Yuggoth sonnets.The volume also contains Lovecraft's extensive correspondence with Bernard Austin Dwyer, a weird fiction fan who engaged in wide-ranging discussions with Lovecraft on such subjects as cosmicism, Lovecraft's upbringing, and political developments in the 1920s and 1930s. In addition, the relatively few… Read More

New York: Hippocampus Press, 2016. Trade paperback, New,. New York: Hippocampus Press:, 2016. Trade paperback, New, 433 pp.<br/> "This volume presents H. P. Lovecraft's letters to three individuals-J. Vernon Shea, Carl Ferdinand Strauch, and Lee McBride White-who were not exclusively interested in weird fiction nor were involved in the realms of amateur journalism or fantasy fandom. Although Shea did come into contact with Lovecraft through Weird Tales, his interests, even as a young man, were far wider-current politics, general literature, film, and socio-cultural trends. As such, Lovecraft's letters to him broach broad topics relating to aesthetics, philosophy, politics, and general culture. In one letter Lovecraft expounds on his fascination with the film Berkeley Square, a time-travel drama that markedly inspired one of his later stories, 'The Shadow out of Time.' Carl F. Strauch was a librarian and an academic-he wrote a dissertation on Ralph Waldo Emerson and taught… Read More

Hippocampus Press, 2017-01-22. Paperback. Used: Good.

Hippocampus Press, 2017-01-22. Paperback. Used:Good.

Hippocampus Press, 2017-01-22. Paperback. Used: Good.

Necronomicon, 1992. Very Good. Lovecraft, H. P.. H. P. Lovecraft: Letters to Richard F. Searight. Schultz, editor, David E.; Joshi, editor, S. T.; Searight, introduction, Franklyn. Rhode Island: Necronomicon, 1992. 1st printing. 90pp. 8vo. Yellow stapled wraps. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed and soiled edges.

West Warwick: Necronomicon Press, 1992. First edition, Chapbook (stapled wraps), Fine,. West Warwick: Necronomicon Press:, 1992. First edition, Chapbook (stapled wraps), Fine, 90 pp.<br/> A lovely copy.

West Warwick: Necronomicon Press, 1990. First edition, Chapbook (stapled wraps), Fine,. West Warwick: Necronomicon Press:, 1990. First edition, Chapbook (stapled wraps), Fine, 32 pp.<br/> Edited by David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, An as new copy.