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Table of Contents: Dispatches from the Providence Observatory: Astronomical Motifs and Sources in the Writings of H. P. Lovecraft......T. R. Livesey The Sickness unto Death in H. P. Lovecraft's "The Hound"......James Goho Queer Tales? Sexuality, Race, and Architecture in "The Thing on the Doorstep"......Joel Pace "Clever Lines": Some Thoughts on Lovecraft's Ad Criticos......Phillip A. Ellis "The Rats in the Walls," the Rats in the Trenches......Robert H. Waugh Knowledge in the Void: Anomaly, Observation, and the Incomplete Paradigm Shift in H. P. Lovecraft's Fiction......Kálmán Matolcsy H. P. Lovecraft and the Archaeology of "Roman" Arizona......Marc A. Beherec Reviews: O Fortunate Floridian: H. P. Lovecraft¿s Letters to R. H. Barlow by H. P. Lovecraft, edited by S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz, reviewed by Martin Andersson Essential Solitude: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth edited by David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, reviewed by John D. Haefele

This fifteenth issue of The Lovecraft Annual features cutting-edge scholarship on the life, work, and thought of H. P. Lovecraft. Among the biographical articles, we find Horace A. Smith examining aspects of Lovecraft's early interest in astronomy; Ken Faig, Jr.'s study of Lovecraft's relations with Irish friends and relatives; Marc Beherec's analysis of the church in Red Hook that played a critical role in "The Horror at Red Hook"; and Brendan Whyte's discussion of the appearance of a 1905 letter by Lovecraft in a New York newspaper. Among the articles on Lovecraft's work, Duncan Norris writes articles on Lovecraft's disdain for money in his stories and a comprehensive survey of recent films that have drawn upon Lovecraft; James Goho studies the nature of the title character of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward; and Christopher Cuccia closely analyzes John Milton's influence on Lovecraft. A section of reviews examines three recent editions of Lovecraft's letters.

Lovecraft Annual is published once a year, in Fall. Articles and letters should be sent to the editor, S. T. Joshi, ¿ Hippocampus Press, and must be accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope if return is desired. All reviews are assigned. Literary rights for articles and reviews will reside with Lovecraft Annual for one year after publication, whereupon they will revert to their respective authors. Payment is in contributor's copies.

Table of Contents Lovecraft's "The Bride of the Sea" and the Uses of Bathos.........Manuel Pérez-Campos Following "The Ancient Track".........Jonathan Adams Letters to Carl Ferdinand Strauch.........H. P. Lovecraft Appendix: A Library Goes Regionalist, by Carl F. Strauch The Construction of Race in the Early Poetry of H. P. Lovecraft.........Phillip A. Ellis The Ecstasies of "The Thing on the Doorstep," "Medusa's Coil," and Other Erotic Studies.........Robert H. Waugh Notes on a Nonentity.........H. P. Lovecraft In Memoriam: Dr. Harry K. Brobst (1909-2010).........Christopher M. O'Brien Time, Space, and Natural Law: Science and Pseudo-Science in Lovecraft.........S. T. Joshi

TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial S. T. Joshi Letters to Farnsworth Wright H. P. Lovecraft The Night Ocean (facsimile typescript plus transcript) R. H. Barlow and H. P. Lovecraft Sanity, Subjectivity, and the Supernatural: Dreams of the Devil in Existentialism and the Weird Tale Dustin Geeraert Terror and Terrain: The Environmental Semantics of Lovecraft County James O. Butler Two Poets and Beauty: H. P. Lovecraft and James Elroy Flecker Phillip A. Ellis Lovecraft's Third Meeting with David V. Bush Kenneth W. Faig, Jr. Echoes of a Warrior Poet: The Influence of Alan Seeger on Lovecraft J. D. Worthington Gothic Mythology: "The Moon-Bog" and the Greek Connection Juan Luis Pérez de Luque Reviews Briefly Noted

Table of Contents New Deal Politics in the Correspondence of H. P. Lovecraft Tyler L. Wolanin Letters between H. P. Lovecraft and Orville L. Leach Edited by Donovan K. Loucks Lovecraft's Rats and Doyle's Hound: A Study in Reason and Madness Robert H. Waugh Lovecraft's Travelogues of Foster, Rhode Island Kenneth W. Faig, Jr. Reappraising "The Haunter of the Dark" John D. Haefele Department of Public Criticism: July 1918 H. P. Lovecraft A Mountain Walked or Stumbled Stephen Walker Excised Passages from "The Thing on the Doorstep" S. T. Joshi Additions and Corrections for "Lovecraft's 1937 Diary" David Haden Lovecraft, Reality, and the Real: A ¿i¿ekian Approach Juan Luis Pérez de Luque Reviews Briefly Noted

Table of Contents Lovecraft and Egypt: A Closer Examination Duncan Norris Forgotten Influence: A. Merritt's "The Face in the Abyss" and H. P. Lovecraft's "The Mound" Peter Levi Essential Saltes: Lovecraft's Witchcraft John Salonia H. P. Lovecraft's Weird Body Alison Sperling Queer Geometry and Higher Dimensions: Mathematics in the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft Daniel M. Look Postcards to Jonathan E. Hoag H. P. Lovecraft The Mouse in the Walls: Disney, Lovecraft, and Gravity Falls Tom Miller Lovecraft Quoted in Support of David V. Bush Kenneth W. Faig, Jr. Pieces of Reality: Lovecraft's Innovative Depiction of Music and Relativity Tristan Zaba Fragments from the Lost Letters of H. P. Lovecraft to Robert E. Howard Bobby Derie Pop Cultural Assimilation of the Lovecraftian Worldview through the Lens of Rick and Morty Duncan Norris Reviews Index to The Lovecraft Annual 1–10

Table of Contents Personal 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 Foti "All Things Are Noble Which Serve the German State": Nationalism in Lovecraft’s "The Temple" Géza A. G. Reilly H. P. Lovecraft’s Determinism and Atomism: Evidence in R. H. Barlow’s "The Summons" Marcos Legaria Lovecraft and Arrival: The Quiet Apocalypse Duncan Norris Letters to the Coryciani H. P. Lovecraft Sinister Showmen and H. P. Lovecraft Gavin Callaghan Reviews Briefly Noted

"The Thing in the Moonlight" is a short story by J. Chapman Miske. The story is based on a letter dated November 24, 1927 from H. P. Lovecraft to Donald Wandrei describing one of Lovecraft's dreams. The story was prepared for publication by Miske, who filled in the story surrounding the description of the dream. In places, the letter and published story are identical to Lovecraft's style. It was first published in Bizarre magazine on January 1941.

"The Evil Clergyman" is an excerpt from a letter written by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft in 1933. After his death, it was published in the April 1939 issue of Weird Tales as a short story. The story was later adapted into the unreleased 1987 anthology film Pulse Pounders. The letter, to his friend Bernard Austin Dwyer, recounted a dream that Lovecraft had had. Although Lovecraft frequently based stories on his dreams, An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia notes that " is difficult to say how HPL would have developed this conventional supernatural scenario.

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"The Book" is an unfinished short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, believed to have been written in late 1933. It was first published in the journal Leaves in 1938, after Lovecraft's death. In the story fragment, the narrator is given an ancient book by a strange bookseller, and when he takes it home and examines it, weird and sinister events ensue. In October 1933, Lovecraft wrote in a letter: I am at a sort of standstill in writing disgusted at much of my older work, and uncertain as to avenues of improvement. In recent weeks I have done a tremendous amount of experimenting with different styles and perspectives, but have destroyed most of the results.

The Tree" is a macabre short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1920, and published in October 1921 in The Tryout. Set in ancient Greece, the story concerns two sculptors who accept a commission with ironic consequences. Lovecraft wrote "The Tree" early in his career. He was dismissive of the story in a 1936 letter. Such stories, he said, "if typed on good stock make excellent shelf-paper, but little else." The assessment of Lovecraft authority S. T. Joshi was that although the story "may be a trifle obvious… it is an effective display of Lovecraft's skill in handling a historical setting.

Letters to Family and Family Friends Volume 2. H. P. Lovecraft. Taschenbuch.

SALEM 1924 Richard Upton, ultimo discendente dell'odiata famiglia Pickman, decide di trasferirsi a Boston per lasciarsi alle spalle un passato oscuro e realizzare il sogno di diventare pittore. Ma il sangue chiama sangue e non esiste modo di sfuggire al proprio destino. Tra incubi e visioni che lo tormentano, Pickman si ritroverà a ripercorrere lo stesso sentiero dei suoi antenati, diretto verso la scoperta di terrificanti verità sepolte. Dal racconto "Il modello di Pickman" di Howard Phillips Lovecraft, la storia completa di uno dei suoi personaggi più affascinanti e perversi. Un libro che gli appassionati del Solitario di Providence apprezzeranno per tutti i molteplici riferimenti alle opere e alla vita dello scrittore che ha inventato l'Orrore Cosmico. I diari di Richard Upton Pickman sono scritti da Christian Sartirana, una delle voci più apprezzate del Gotico Piemontese.

Hypnos" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, penned in March 1922 and first published in the May 1923 issue of National Amateur. "Hypnos" is a first-person narrative, written from the perspective of an unnamed character living in Kent and later London, England. The narrator writes that he fears sleep, and is resolved to write his story down lest it drive him further mad, regardless of what people think after reading it. Lovecraft dedicated this story to his longtime friend Samuel Loveman, who featured in the dreams that inspired Lovecraft's "The Statement of Randolph Carter" and "Nyarlathotep". Loveman suggested it was the best thing Lovecraft had ever written up to that point in time, as mentioned by Lovecraft in a letter. The plot-germ of the story is found in Lovecraft's commonplace book, in an early entry reading, "The man who would not sleep--dares not sleep--takes drugs to keep himself awake. Finally falls asleep-& something happens.

"The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March and August 1921, it was first published in Weird Tales, April 1926. In this work, a mysterious individual who has been living alone in a castle for as long as he can remember decides to break free in search of human contact and light. "The Outsider" is one of Lovecraft's most commonly reprinted works and is also one of the most popular stories ever to be published in Weird Tales. "The Outsider" combines horror, fantasy, and gothic fiction to create a nightmarish story, containing themes of loneliness, the abhuman, and the afterlife. Its epigram is from John Keats' 1819 poem "The Eve of St. Agnes". In a letter, Lovecraft himself said that, of all his tales, this story most closely resembles the style of his idol Edgar Allan Poe, writing that it "represents my literal though unconscious imitation of Poe at its very height." The opening paragraphs echo those of Poe's "Berenice", while the horror at the party recalls the unmasking scene in "The Masque of the Red Death".

Nyarlathotep is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft. The character is a malign deity in the Lovecraft Mythos, a shared universe. First appearing in Lovecraft's 1920 prose poem "Nyarlathotep", he was later mentioned in other works by Lovecraft and by other writers. Later writers describe him as one of the Outer Gods, a malevolent pantheon.In a 1921 letter to Reinhardt Kleiner, Lovecraft related the dream he had had—described as "the most realistic and horrible [nightmare] I have experienced since the age of ten"—that served as the basis for his prose poem "Nyarlathotep". In the dream, he received a letter from his friend Samuel Loveman that read:Don't fail to see Nyarlathotep if he comes to Providence. He is horrible—horrible beyond anything you can imagine—but wonderful. He haunts one for hours afterwards. I am still shuddering at what he showed.Lovecraft commented:I had never heard the name NYARLATHOTEP before, but seemed to understand the allusion. Nyarlathotep was a kind of itinerant showman or lecturer who held forth in public halls and aroused widespread fear and discussion with his exhibitions. These exhibitions consisted of two parts—first, a horrible—possibly prophetic—cinema reel; and later some extraordinary experiments with scientific and electrical apparatus. As I received the letter, I seemed to recall that Nyarlathotep was already in Providence.... I seemed to remember that persons had whispered to me in awe of his horrors, and warned me not to go near him. But Loveman's dream letter decided me.... As I left the house I saw throngs of men plodding through the night, all whispering affrightedly and bound in one direction. I fell in with them, afraid yet eager to see and hear the great, the obscure, the unutterable Nyarlathotep.Will Murray has speculated that this dream image of Nyarlathotep may have been inspired by the inventor Nikola Tesla, whose well-attended lectures did involve extraordinary experiments with electrical apparatus and whom some saw as a sinister figure.

"The Book" is an unfinished short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, believed to have been written in late 1933. It was first published in the journal Leaves in 1938, after Lovecraft's death. In the story fragment, the narrator is given an ancient book by a strange bookseller, and when he takes it home and examines it, weird and sinister events ensue. In October 1933, Lovecraft wrote in a letter: I am at a sort of standstill in writing—disgusted at much of my older work, and uncertain as to avenues of improvement. In recent weeks I have done a tremendous amount of experimenting with different styles and perspectives, but have destroyed most of the results.[2] The H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia suggests that "The Book" was one of the undestroyed experiments—an attempt to translate Lovecraft's poem sequence Fungi from Yuggoth into prose. (The completed fragment corresponds to the first three sonnets, which form more of a coherent narrative than the rest of the sequence).

"The Book" is an unfinished short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, believed to have been written in late 1933. It was first published in the journal Leaves in 1938, after Lovecraft's death. In the story fragment, the narrator is given an ancient book by a strange bookseller, and when he takes it home and examines it, weird and sinister events ensue. In October 1933, Lovecraft wrote in a letter: I am at a sort of standstill in writing disgusted at much of my older work, and uncertain as to avenues of improvement. In recent weeks I have done a tremendous amount of experimenting with different styles and perspectives, but have destroyed most of the results.

Collected Works 1917-1924 include all the short stories and novellas of H.P. Lovecraft published between 1917 and 1924.Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 - March 15, 1937) was an American writer of weird fiction and horror fiction, who is known for his creation of what became the Cthulhu Mythos. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft spent most of his life within New England. He was born into affluence, which ended with the death of his grandfather. In 1913, he wrote a critical letter to a pulp magazine that ultimately led to his involvement in pulp fiction. During the interwar period, he wrote and published stories that focused on his interpretation of humanity's place in the universe. In his view, humanity was an unimportant part of an uncaring cosmos that could be swept away at any moment. These stories also included fantastic elements that represented the perceived fragility of anthropocentrism. Lovecraft was at the center of a wider body of authors known as The Lovecraft Circle. This group wrote stories that frequently shared details between them. He was also a prolific writer of letters. He maintained a correspondence with several different authors and literary proteges. According to some estimates, he wrote approximately 100,000 letters over the course of his lifetime. In these letters, he discussed his worldview and his daily life, and tutored younger authors, such as August Derleth, Donald Wandrei, and Robert Bloch. Throughout his adult life, Lovecraft was never able to support himself from earnings as an author and editor. He was virtually unknown during his lifetime and was almost exclusively published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty at the age of 46, but is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors of supernatural horror fiction. Among his most celebrated tales are The Call of Cthulhu, The Rats in the Walls, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, and The Shadow Out of Time. His writings are the basis of the Cthulhu Mythos, which has inspired a large body of pastiches, games, music and other media drawing on Lovecraft's characters, setting and themes, constituting a wider subgenre known as Lovecraftian horror.Included in this collection:1. A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1917)2. Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919)3. Dagon (1919)4. The White Ship (1919)5. The Statement of Randolph Carter (1920)6. The Doom that Came to Sarnath (1920)7. The Cats of Ulthar (1920)8. Nyarlathotep (1920)9. Polaris (1920)10. The Street (1920)11. Ex Oblivione (1921)12. Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1921)13. The Terrible Old Man (1921)14. The Picture in the House (1921)15. The Tree (1921)16. The Nameless City (1921)17. The Tomb (1922)18. The Music of Erich Zann (1922)19. Celephaïs (1922)20. Herbert West - Reanimator (1922)21. The Lurking Fear (1923)22. Memory (1923)23. Hypnos (1923)24. What the Moon Brings (1923)25. The Hound (1924)26. The Rats in the Walls (1924)

This book contains the following works: 1. Edgar Allan Poe: The Pit and the Pendulum 2. William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream 3. Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden 4. Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man 5. Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island 6. H. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness 7. Jack London: The Call of the Wild 8. Mary W. Shelley: Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus 9. Osamu Dazai: No Longer Human (Confessions of a Faulty Man) 10. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

Polaris" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1918 and first published in the December 1920 issue of the amateur journal The Philosopher. It is noteworthy as the story that introduces Lovecraft's fictional Pnakotic Manuscripts, the first of his arcane tomes. Critic William Fulwiler writes that "'Polaris' is one of Lovecraft's most autobiographical stories, reflecting his feelings of guilt, frustration, and uselessness during World War I. Like the narrator, HPL was 'denied a warrior's part', for he 'was feeble and given to strange faintings when subjected to stress and hardships'". Like many Lovecraft stories, "Polaris" was in part inspired by a dream, which he described in a letter: "Several nights ago I had a strange dream of a strange city-a city of many palaces and gilded domes, lying in a hollow betwixt ranges of grey, horrible hills.... I was, as I said, aware of this city visually. I was in it and around it. But certainly I had no corporeal existence.

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