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In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles" two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title)--here is the first Wildside Mystery Double, featuring two new novels of the 1930s private eye, Joe Scintilla: CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE, by S. T. Joshi. When the lovely Lizbeth Crawford walks into Scintilla's office, she tells him that her father, wealthy industrialist James Crawford, did not kill his brother Frank, even though he confessed and is n...

Hippocampus Press has done the Lovecraftian community an immense favor by picking up the torch of published scholarship on H.P. Lovecraft." -Grim Blogger Table of Contents: Locked Dimensions out of Reach: The Lost Stories of H. P. Lovecraft............J.-M. Rajala Cosmic Maenads and the Music of Madness: Lovecraft's Borrowings from the Greeks............John Salonia Blacks, Boxers, and Lovecraft............Gavin Callaghan On H. P. Lovecraft's ...

Katharine Vance had supposedly committed suicide in 1932, but when she surfaces under another name a year later, with no memory of her previous life, private eye Joe Scintilla is hired to investigate. He must travel from his native New York to Los Angeles to Italy, to uncover the nefarious schemes of "The Removal Company." A thrill-a-minute hard-boiled adventure, the first of a series!

The long history of prejudice against women has been the focus of many academic studies, but until now there has been no attempt to collect actual examples of this prejudice from books, articles, and scholarly monographs. In Her Place gathers together dozens of works - mostly by American writers over the past two centuries but also by some European writers who influenced American thought - that embody the scorn and contempt for the "weaker sex...

This collection of essays on the Cthulhu Mythos range from pioneering articles by Richard L. Tierney and Dirk W. Mosig to penetrating studies by Robert M. Price, William Murray, Steven J. Mariconda, and others.

When An Epicure in the Terrible first appeared in 1991, commemorating the centennial of H. P. Lovecraft's birth, it was hailed as a significant contribution to Lovecraft studies. Its thirteen original essays, along with a lengthy biocritical introduction by S. T. Joshi, contained penetrating work by leading authorities in the field. Among them were Kenneth W. Faig, Jr.'s pioneering study of Lovecraft's parents, Jason C. Eckhardt's analysis of ...

Throughout his career as a literary critic, H. L. Mencken was intent on elevating the bold, the daring, and the innovative over the hackneyed, the trite, and the superficial, and his drama criticism exhibits this tendency to the fullest. Though known primarily as a newspaperman and commentator, Mencken also wrote several one-act plays, as well as a full-length work.In The Collected Drama of H. L. Mencken: Plays and Criticism, S. T. Joshi has a...

H. P. Lovecraft ist, ohne Wenn und Aber, der bedeutendste Autor unheimlicher Phantastik des 20. Jahrhunderts. Im angloamerikanischen Raum ist er längst als Klassiker anerkannt, und auf Deutsch liegt sein Werk in verschiedenen Ausgaben und Übersetzungen vor.Sein Leben dagegen ist mehr als umstritten: Als »Einsiedler von Providence« wurde er bezeichnet, als Rassist und Menschenfeind. Dem steht entgegen, dass er sich sein Leben lang als Amateurjo...

To know Lovecraft's mind, one must first know his books. H. P. Lovecraft was one of the most well-read authors of his time, and his personal library constitutes an intimate glimpse into his mind and imagination. This third revised edition provides comprehensive information on over 1000 books owned by Lovecraft. These books focus chiefly on four key areas that Lovecraft found particularly fascinating: ancient literature and history, the histor...

H. P. Lovecraft ist, ohne Wenn und Aber, der bedeutendste Autor unheimlicher Phantastik des 20. Jahrhunderts. Im angloamerikanischen Raum ist er längst als Klassiker anerkannt, und auf Deutsch liegt sein Werk in verschiedenen Ausgaben und Übersetzungen vor.Sein Leben dagegen ist mehr als umstritten: Als »Einsiedler von Providence« wurde er bezeichnet, als Rassist und Menschenfeind. Dem steht entgegen, dass er sich sein Leben lang als Amateurjo...

Fourteen spellbinding tales, including The Sin Eater, by Fiona McLeod, The Eye Above the Mantel, by Frank Belknap Long, as well as renowned works by R. H. Barlow and Lord Dunsany.

Since the publication of his first novel in 1946, Gore Vidal has been one of America's most successful writers, as well as one of its most outspoken public figures. The author of more than twenty novels including The City and the Pillar, Myra Breckinridge, Burr, and Lincoln as well as several books of nonfiction, plays, and screenplays, Gore Vidal has been a leading man of American letters for more than half a century. As the first comprehensi...

Ambrose Bierce was a well-known and highly admired journalist, short story writer, and satirist. After distinguished Civil War service, Bierce became a journalist, and in 1887 he became a columnist for William Randolph Hearst's Sunday Examiner. His work for the San Francisco Examiner made his reputation, especially on the West Coast. In 1914 he vanished on a trip to Mexico.The work for which he is best known, The Devil's Dictionary, was first ...

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The last few decades have seen a remarkable efflorescence of weird poetry, to such a degree that we can authentically state that a renaissance of the genre is taking place, and Spectral Realms leads the way.The contributors in this first edition, hailing from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Australia, and elsewhere, are indicative of the worldwide nature of the weird poetry renaissance. New poets who have emerged in rec...

Draws upon Lovecraft's works and on rare documents to supply hundreds of entries about his major writings, leading colleagues, chief characters, and other elements.

S. T. Joshi is one of the leading authorities on weird fiction, and in this expansive new study he provides a comprehensive history and analysis of the entire range of weird fiction from antiquity to the present day. This first volume focuses on weird fiction from the Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 1700 B.C.E.) to the end of the nineteenth century. Joshi focuses on key works of Greek and Latin literature that introduced many long-enduring motifs in wei...

In this second volume of S. T. Joshi's landmark history of supernatural fiction, the initial focus is on an incredible efflorescence of weird writing at the turn of the twentieth century-a period that many scholars have referred to as the Golden Age of weird fiction. Such figures as Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood, M. R. James, and H. P. Lovecraft elevated weird fiction to a level of high artistry never seen before, and their w...

S. T. Joshi has been a published writer for nearly four decades, and since that time he has amassed an array of books, articles, reviews, and other matter that makes him one of the most prolific critics and scholars in the history of weird fiction. This compilation-jocularly modelled upon August Derleth's 100 Books by August Derleth-provides a nearly complete bibliography of Joshi's multifarious work. Included are the 200 or more books Joshi h...

This second issue of Spectral Realms, Hippocampus Press's acclaimed journal of weird poetry, features all-original poems--sonnets, ballads, vibrant free-verse lyrics, and much else--from such leading writers as John Shirley, William F. Nolan, Wade German, Gemma Files, Ann Schwader, W. H. Pugmire, and many others. It leads off with a lengthy poem by Donald Sidney-Fryer, one of the pillars of the weird poetry movement for the last half-century o...