Contents

• "Introduction", by Peter Cannon
  Peter Cannon
  Peter H. Cannon is an H. P. Lovecraft scholar and an author of Cthulhu Mythos fiction.Cannon first made his name in Lovecraft studies with his graduate theses written in the 1970s - A Case for Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Lovecraft's New England...
  
  
• I. Neighbors
  • "His Own Most Fantastic Creation: Howard Phillips Lovecraft", by Winfield Townley Scott
    Winfield Townley Scott
    Winfield Townley Scott was an American poet, critic and diarist.-Life:He was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, seven days after the arrival of Halley's Comet. He graduated from Brown University in 1931....
    
    
  • "Miscellaneous Impressions of H.P.L.", by Marian F. Bonner
  • "A Glimpse of H.P.L.", by Mary V. Dana
  • "Lovecraft's Sensitivity", by August Derleth
    August Derleth
    August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...
    
    
  • "Three Hours with H. P. Lovecraft", by Dorothy C. Walter
  • "The Gentleman from Angell Street", by Muriel Eddy
  • "Walks with H. P. Lovecraft", by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
    C. M. Eddy, Jr.
    Clifford Martin Eddy, Jr. was an American author best known for his horror and supernatural short stories. He is best remembered for his work in Weird Tales magazine.- Career :...
    
    
  • "Lovecraft, My Childhood Friend", by Harold W. Munro
• II. Amateurs
  • "Little Journeys to the Homes of Prominent Amateurs", by Andrew Francis Lockhart
  • amateur writings by Edith Miniter
  • amateur writings by George Julian Houtain
  • "Howard Phillips Lovecraft: The Sage of Providence", by Maurice W. Moe
  • "A Tribute from the Past", by Ira Cole
  • "Idiosyncrasies of H.P.L.", by E.A. Edkins
  • "Ave atque Vale!", by Edward H. Cole
  • "In Memoriam: Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Recollections, Appreciations, Estimates", by W. Paul Cook
  • "Discourse on H. P. Lovecraft", by Rheinhart Kleiner
  • "Memories of a Friendship", by Alfred Galpin
  • "Young Man Lovecraft", by L. Sprague de Camp
    L. Sprague de Camp
    Lyon Sprague de Camp was an American author of science fiction and fantasy books, non-fiction and biography. In a writing career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and notable works of non-fiction, including biographies of other important fantasy authors...
    
    
• III. Kalems
  • "A Few Memories", by James F. Morton
  • "Some Random Memories of H.P.L.", by Frank Belknap Long
    Frank Belknap Long
    Frank Belknap Long was a prolific American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. Though his writing career spanned seven decades, he is best known for his horror and science fiction short stories, including early contributions to...
    
    
  • "Bards and Bibliophiles", by Rheinhart Kleiner
  • "A Memoir of Lovecraft", by Rheinhart Kleiner
  • "Howard Phillips Lovecraft", by Samuel Loveman
  • "Lovecraft as a Conversationalist", by Samuel Loveman
  • "The Normal Lovecraft", by Wilfred B. Talman
  • "Walkers in the City: George Willard Kirk and Howard Phillips Lovecraft in New York City, 1924-1926", by Mara Kirk Hart
• IV. Ladies
  • "In Memoriam", by Hazel Heald
  • "Lovecraft as I Knew Him", by Sonia H. Davis
  • "H. P. Lovecraft: A Pupil's View", by Zealia Bishop
    Zealia Bishop
    Zealia Brown-Reed Bishop was an American writer of short stories.Her stories appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. However, they were extensively revised by H. P...
    
    
  • "Memories of Lovecraft: I", by Sonia H. Davis
  • "Memories of Lovecraft: II", by Helen V. Sully
• V. Professionals
  • letter to Weird Tales
    Weird Tales
    Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in March 1923. It ceased its original run in September 1954, after 279 issues, but has since been revived. The magazine was set up in Chicago by J. C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre....
    
    , by Robert Bloch
    Robert Bloch
    Robert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock...
    
    
  • letter to Weird Tales
    Weird Tales
    Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in March 1923. It ceased its original run in September 1954, after 279 issues, but has since been revived. The magazine was set up in Chicago by J. C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre....
    
    , by Clark Ashton Smith
    Clark Ashton Smith
    Clark Ashton Smith was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne...
    
    
  • "A Tribute to Lovecraft", by Robert W. Lowndes
  • "The Genius of Lovecraft", by Henry George Weiss (Francis Flagg)
  • "The Man Who Was Lovecraft", by E. Hoffmann Price
  • "My Correspondence with Lovecraft", by Fritz Leiber
    Fritz Leiber
    Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theatre and films, playwright, expert chess player and a champion fencer. Possibly his greatest chess accomplishment was winning clear first in the 1958 Santa Monica Open.. With...
    
    
  • "Lovecraft in Providence", by Donald Wandrei
    Donald Wandrei
    Donald Albert Wandrei was an American science fiction, fantasy and weird fiction writer, poet and editor. He wrote as Donald Wandrei. He was the older brother of science fiction writer and artist Howard Wandrei...
    
    
  • "Out of the Ivory Tower", by Robert Bloch
    Robert Bloch
    Robert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock...
    
    
  • "H.P.L.: A Reminiscence", by H. Warner Munn
    H. Warner Munn
    Harold Warner Munn was an American writer of fantasy, horror and poetry. He was an early friend and associate of authors H. P. Lovecraft and Seabury Quinn...
    
    
  • "Recollections of H. P. Lovecraft", by Vrest Orton
• VI. Fans
  • "The Barlow Journal", by R.H. Barlow
  • "The Wind That Is in the Grass: A Memoir of H. P. Lovecraft in Florida", by R.H. Barlow
  • "Lovecraft's First Book", by William L. Crawford
    William L. Crawford
    William Levi Crawford was an American publisher and editor.-Career:During the autumn of 1933, Crawford proposed to start a non-paying weird fiction magazine, Unusual Stories, which was initiated soon afterward. About the same time he also published the magazine Marvel Tales. For Unusual Stories he...
    
    
  • "H. P. Lovecraft: The House and the Shadows", by J. Vernon Shea
  • "Caverns Measureless to Man", by Kenneth Sterling
  • "Autumn in Providence: Harry K. Brobst on Lovecraft", by Will Murray
    Will Murray (writer)
    Will Murray is the author of more than fifty novels, a scholar of pulp fiction and a writer of numorous comic books. Much of his fiction has been published under pseudonyms.-Novels and magazines:...
    
    
• VII. Critics
  • "A Note on Howard P. Lovecraft's Verse", by Rheinhart Kleiner
  • Variety
    Variety (magazine)
    Variety is an American weekly entertainment-trade magazine founded in New York City, New York, in 1905 by Sime Silverman. With the rise of the importance of the motion-picture industry, Daily Variety, a daily edition based in Los Angeles, California, was founded by Silverman in 1933. In 1998, the...
    
    column, by Howard Wolf
  • letter to Weird Tales
    Weird Tales
    Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in March 1923. It ceased its original run in September 1954, after 279 issues, but has since been revived. The magazine was set up in Chicago by J. C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre....
    
    , by Robert E. Howard
    Robert E. Howard
    Robert Ervin Howard was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. Best known for his character Conan the Barbarian, he is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre....
    
    
  • "A Weird Writer Is in Our Midst", by Vrest Orton
  • "H. P. Lovecraft, Outsider", by August Derleth
    August Derleth
    August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...
    
    
  • "Lovecraft and Benefit Street", by Dorothy C. Walter
  • "H. P. Lovecraft: An Appreciation", by T.O. Mabbott
  • "Lovecraft and Science", by Kenneth Sterling
  • "H. P. Lovecraft", by Vincent Starrett
    Vincent Starrett
    Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett , known as Vincent Starrett, was an American writer and newspaperman.- Biography :...
    
    
  • "The Lovecraft Legend", by Vincent Starrett
    Vincent Starrett
    Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett , known as Vincent Starrett, was an American writer and newspaperman.- Biography :...
    
    
  • "A Parenthesis on Lovecraft as Poet", by Winfield Townley Scott
    Winfield Townley Scott
    Winfield Townley Scott was an American poet, critic and diarist.-Life:He was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, seven days after the arrival of Halley's Comet. He graduated from Brown University in 1931....
    
    
  • "The Lord of R'lyeh", by Matthew H. Overlook
  • "Charon—In Reverse; Or, H. P. Lovecraft Versus the 'Realists' of Fantasy", by Matthew H. Overlook
  • "A Literary Copernicus", by Fritz Leiber
    Fritz Leiber
    Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theatre and films, playwright, expert chess player and a champion fencer. Possibly his greatest chess accomplishment was winning clear first in the 1958 Santa Monica Open.. With...
    
    
  • "H. P. Lovecraft, An Evaluation", by Joseph Payne Brennan
    Joseph Payne Brennan
    Joseph Payne Brennan was an American writer of fantasy and horror fiction, and also a poet. He lived most of his life in New Haven, Connecticut, and worked at the Yale Library for over 40 years....
    
    
  • "Through Hyperspace with Brown Jenkin: Lovecraft's Contribution to Speculative Fiction", by Fritz Leiber
    Fritz Leiber
    Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theatre and films, playwright, expert chess player and a champion fencer. Possibly his greatest chess accomplishment was winning clear first in the 1958 Santa Monica Open.. With...
    
    
  • "Epilogue: Lovecraft and Poe", by Frank Belknap Long
    Frank Belknap Long
    Frank Belknap Long was a prolific American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. Though his writing career spanned seven decades, he is best known for his horror and science fiction short stories, including early contributions to...