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This seventh issue of Hippocampus Press's acclaimed journal of weird poetry features nearly 60 original poems of fantasy and terror from such renowned poets as Ann K. Schwader, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, John Shirley, Christina Sng, and Richard L. Tierney. Among the more distinctive works are "Dracul's Demesne, " a sonnet sequence by Frank Coffman, two acrostic sonnets on H. P. Lovecraft by Manuel Pérez-Campos, Adam Bolivar's ingenious poetic r...

Table of ContentsPersonal Tragedy in "The Thing on the Doorstep" W. H. Pugmire Lovecraft's Greek Tragedy Duncan Norris On Lovecraft's Lifelong Relationship with Wonder Jan B. W. Petersen Some Philological Observations on "The Horror at Red Hook" Armen Alexanyan New York, Culture Shock, and a Glimpse of the Future in "He" Cecelia Drewer H. P. Lovecraft in "The Sideshow" Lovecraft and the Argosy David E. Schultz Aristeas and Lovecraft Claudio Fo...

In his forty-year career as a critic and editor of weird fiction, S. T. Joshi has had occasion to study many of the leading writers of fantasy and horror fiction, and this book embodies some of his most provocative discussions on weird writers over the past century or more.The "golden age" of weird fiction ranged from about 1880 to 1940, and Joshi studies such leading writers as Ambrose Bierce and Bram Stoker, as well as little-known but fasci...

H. P. Lovecraft's brand of cosmic horror has long forced readers to an inexorable truth-there are powers in the universe whose immensity dwarfs petty human conflicts. Inspired by Lovecraft and brought together by editor S. T. Joshi, the stories in Black Wings of Cthulhu 5 explore the very essence of fear.

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Ramsey Campbell is one of the world's leading writers of supernatural stories, although he has received far less attention than other practitioners of the genre. Joshi focuses in a thematic rather than chronological approach on the whole of Campbell's rich and varied work, from his early tales to the powerfully innovative stories collected in Demons by Daylight: The Doll Who Ate His Mother (1975) to Silent Children (1999) are also examined in ...

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In the 20 years since Lord Dunsany: A Bibliography was published, there has been a veritable explosion in interest in Dunsany s life and work. And, since much of Dunsany s writing is now in the public domain, many print-on-demand editions of the author s early books have been published in recent years. In addition to new materialby or about Dunsany published after 1993, this second edition includes a considerable amount of material published i...

Part of the critically acclaimed Black Wings series, this third installment contains seventeen stories by some of the foremost writers in contemporary weird fiction, using the ideas, imagery, and atmosphere of H P Lovecraft's tales as springboards.

Table of ContentsNew Deal Politics in the Correspondence of H. P. LovecraftTyler L. WolaninLetters between H. P. Lovecraft and Orville L. LeachEdited by Donovan K. LoucksLovecraft's Rats and Doyle's Hound: A Study in Reason and MadnessRobert H. WaughLovecraft's Travelogues of Foster, Rhode IslandKenneth W. Faig, Jr.Reappraising "The Haunter of the Dark"John D. HaefeleDepartment of Public Criticism: July 1918H. P. LovecraftA Mountain Walked or ...

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From the publication of his first book in 1905 until his death, Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) was an immensely popular Anglo-Irish writer. He has long been admired in the realms of fantasy, horror, and supernatural fiction and was a friend and colleague of writers W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, James Stephens, and Oliver St. John Gogarty. In recent years he has enjoyed a resurgence as a pioneering fantasy writer and an immense influence on later work i...

The definitive critical guide to the life and works of H.P. Lovecraft, the premier writer of horror fiction in the first half of the 20th century, written by the world's foremost Lovecraft scholar. (Criticism)

This is a critical study of many of the leading writers of horror and supernatural fiction since World War II. The primary purpose is to establish a canon of weird literature, and to distinguish the genuinely meritorious writers of the past fifty years from those who have obtained merely transient popular renown. Accordingly, the author regards the complex, subtle work of Shirley Jackson, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Aickman, T.E.D. Klein, and Thom...

S. T. Joshi is one of the premier critics of supernatural fiction. His pioneering research on H. P. Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, Ambrose Bierce, and other writers has set a standard of scholarship that few have equaled. In The Evolution of the Weird Tale--an informal follow-up to his earlier studies, The Weird Tale (1990) and The Modern Weird Tale (2001)--Joshi assesses a wide array of American and British supernatural writers of the past century ...

Ambrose Bierce is well known to readers as the author of The Devil's Dictionary (1906) and numerous short stories, such as the Civil War tales gathered in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891) and the horror stories collected in Can Such Things Be? (1893). But, in his own day, he was best known as a prolific and fearless jounalist, and in the 40 years of his literary career he wrote thousands of articles for newspapers and magazines in San Fr...

This is the first anthology ever published to feature the writings of leading eighteenth-century thinkers on the subjects of atheism, religion, freethought, and secularism. Editor S. T. Joshi has compiled notable essays by writers from Germany, France, England, and early America. The contributors include Denis Diderot (a principal author of the multivolume French Encyclopédie), Baron d'Holbach (System of Nature, 1770), Voltaire (Philosophical ...

Offers up to 21 horrifying tales taking their inspiration from stories by Lovecraft himself.

Sixteen all-new stories spring from the concepts of doomed exploration, remote terror, and cosmic horror. A who's who lineup of authors instills new energy into the subgenre that is Lovecraft, featuring authors who rarely contribute to a Lovecraftian anthology.

Famous as a political, social and cultural gadfly, journalist and essayist H.L. Mencken was unafraid to speak his mind on controversial topics and to express his views in a deliberately provocative manner. This is a collection of work previously only published in newspapers and magazines.