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Following S. T. Joshi's acclaimed three-volume variorum edition of Lovecraft's fiction, this final collection includes all known revisions and collaborations undertaken by Lovecraft on behalf of his friends and clients. As with previous volumes in this series, the texts preserved herein scrupulously follow archival manuscripts, typescripts, or original publications, and constitute the definitive edition of these stories. Since Lovecraft's cu...

This issue of Spectral Realms is dedicated to the late Richard L. Tierney (1936-2022), one of the pioneering weird poets of our time. Included is an unpublished poem by Tierney and poetic tributes to him by Leigh Blackmore and Charles Lovecraft. As always, the issue contains scintillating work by some of the leading weird versifiers of the present day, including Wade German, Frank Coffman, Ian Futter, and Scott J. Couturier. John Shirley, Da...

Zothique, a mythical land of the far future, is Clark Ashton Smith's most carefully worked out fantasy realm, and many of his most celebrated stories are set in this evocative world of languid decadence, strangeness, and sexuality. Beginning with "The Empire of the Necromancers" (1932) and extending all the way to the short play The Dead Will Cuckold You (1956), Smith fashioned Zothique in tale after tale, each adding new elements to the local...

Table of Contents Can You Dig It? ........... Daniel Pietersen Amara Thornton and Katy Soar, ed., Strange Relics: Stories of Archeology and the Supernatural, 1895-1954. A Newly Arrived Triumph ........... Géza A. G. Reilly Attila Verse, translated by Luca Karafiáth. The Black Maybe: Liminal Tales. June Ruins Everything ........... June Pulliam Westworld, Season 4, The Walking Dead, Season 11, American Horror Stories, Season 2, What We Do...

In recent years, Wade German has established himself at the very pinnacle of contemporary weird poetry. This new poetry collection, following his scintillating debut volume, Dreams from a Black Nebula (Hippocampus Press, 2014), shows why every poem by German is a crystallized jewel of potent weirdness. German draws upon the rich heritage of literary strangeness extending back to the Hebrew scriptures and continuing on through such writers as...

Throughout his life, H. P. Lovecraft corresponded with a wide array of correspondents-in the amateur journalism movement, the world of pulp magazines, and elsewhere. This volume contains small batches of letters to these correspondents. A major inclusion is the surviving correspondence of two round-robin groups, the Kleicomolo and the Gallomo, wherein Lovecraft expatiates on his cosmic philosophy. Also included here are letters to C. M. Eddy a...

In 1962, Arthur S. Koki (1937-1989) wrote a master's thesis on Lovecraft at Columbia University. It is one of the most impressive and substantive academic papers on Lovecraft ever written. Expanding upon an honors thesis on the same subject written at Clark University in 1960, Koki's paper is the first detailed account of Lovecraft's life, written more than a decade before L. Sprague de Camp's Lovecraft: A Biography (1975). De Camp has acknowl...

The diversity of H. P. Lovecraft's correspondents is exemplified in this volume, as are important aspects of his literary and professional career. His involvement with the pulp magazine Weird Tales is reflected in letters to J. C. Henneberger (the magazine's owner) and its first two editors, Edwin Baird and Farnsworth Wright. Here we learn little-known details of the magazine's initial year of publication, Lovecraft's work as ghostwriter for H...

This year's bountiful issue of The Lovecraft Annual features a trio of articles on the Eddy family. David Haden writes an authoritative article on Lovecraft's relations with the bookseller Arthur Eddy, who probably introduced Lovecraft to his nephew C. M. Eddy. Stephen Olbrys Gencarella examines in detail the folklore behind Dark Swamp, the remote area of Rhode Island that Eddy and Lovecraft attempted to investigate in 1923. And César Guarde-P...

From as early as the 1970s, Michael Shea (1946-2014) distinguished himself as one of the most compelling writers of weird fiction of his generation. Now that his classic story "The Autopsy" has been adapted for television for Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, the time is right for a full-scale assessment of Shea's work as a writer of tales of terror and the supernatural. "The Autopsy" is one of several tales that mingles gruesomen...

In this scintillating follow-up to the acclaimed volume The Lay of Old Hex (2017), Adam Bolivar demonstrates why he is one of the most accomplished and readable weird poets of our time. As a balladeer Bolivar has no peer among his contemporaries, and his many eloquent poems about the enigmatic Jack-musician, lover, and warrior against supernatural enemies-evoke the centuries-long tradition of balladry extending back to the Middle Ages. These...

The third issue of Penumbra, the acclaimed Hippocampus Press annual magazine of weird fiction, poetry, and criticism, features provocative stories from both veterans and novices. Steven Woodworth sets his tale in Soviet-controlled Czechoslovakia, while Darrell Schweitzer and Geoffrey Reiter evoke the terror of the rural American landscape. Harley Carnell takes us to working-class England, Carl E. Reed to the Chicago underworld. Other, briefer ...

Table of Contents A Swordly and Sorcerous Chronicle ........... Darrell Schweitzer Brian Murphy, Flame and Crimson: A History of Sword-and-Sorcery. One Pure Writer's Will ........... Michael D. Miller Farah Rose Smith, Of One Pure Will. A Laudable Gem ........... Géza A. G. Reilly Alex Houstoun, Copyright Questions and the Stories of H. P. Lovecraft. Men in Pain ........... Javier Martinez Jeffrey Thomas, Carrion Men, ed. Scott Dwy...

For more than two decades, Matt Cardin has been one of the most profound and provocative critics and scholars working in the field of horror fiction, and this volume contains his collected essays on a wide array of topics within the genre. Cardin has made a specialty in treating the multifaceted work of Thomas Ligotti, and in six substantial papers he discusses such subjects as H. P. Lovecraft's influence on Ligotti's work and thought, the n...

For more than fifty years, Ken Faig, Jr. has been a leading scholar and researcher on the life and work of H. P. Lovecraft. Over the decades he has made landmark discoveries that have clarified many aspects of Lovecraft's life, ancestry, and the influence of his personal experiences upon his weird fiction. In this new volume of essays, Faig continues his pioneering work in illuminating the obscurer corners of the people and places associated w...

Arthur Machen was a hugely prolific essayist and journalist. In a career that spanned more than half a century, he wrote thousands of articles for such magazines and newspapers as the London Evening News, John O'London's Weekly, and the Independent. In these essays he articulates his distinctive mystical and religiously based outlook. Accusing science and rationalism of impoverishing the human imagination, he was an untiring defender of the es...

This fourth volume of selected papers from the Dr. Henry M. Armitage Memorial Scholarship Symposium, delivered at NecronomiCon Providence 2019, contains an array of groundbreaking articles on Lovecraft's life, work, and thought. Papers by Kyle Gamache and Thomas Schwaiger focus on Lovecraft's relations with his brilliant young friend R. H. Barlow, whose story "The Night Ocean" is one of the finest weird tales of its era. Elena Tchougounova-Pau...

It was perhaps inevitable that Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) and Samuel Loveman (1887-1976) would become close friends and correspondents. Both were devoted to the art and craft of poetry, both were fascinated by the obscurer corners of literature, and both shared numerous colleagues, among them George Sterling, H. P. Lovecraft, and George Kirk. The correspondence begins in 1913, when Smith was still under the poetic tutelage of George Ster...

Spectral Realms completes its eighth year of publication with an issue that displays the full gamut of expression in weird poetry. Aside from contributions by some of the leading exponents of terror in verse (Christina Sng, Adam Bolivar, Ann K. Schwader, Wade German, Frank Coffman), we have such distinctive items as Ngo Binh Anh Khoa's adaptation of a Korean poetic form to the King in Yellow mythos, Adele Gardner's evocative poem on Edgar Alla...

H. P. Lovecraft's Fungi from Yuggoth is a remarkable achievement. Written in little more than a week (December 27, 1929-January 4, 1930), the cycle of 36 sonnets is a compact encapsulation of the essence of Lovecraft's imaginative vision. Its central motifs-the lure of hidden worlds, cosmic alienation, the terrors lurking behind the placid surface of life-are those that structured Lovecraft's greatest weird tales.David E. Schultz has spent dec...