Rhode Island on Lovecraft is a collection of memoirs about H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft --often credited as H.P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction....

 and is edited by Donald M. Grant

Donald M. Grant

Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. is a fantasy and science fiction small press publisher in New Hampshire that was founded in 1964. It is notable for publishing fantasy and horror novels with lavish illustrations, most notably Stephen King's The Dark Tower series and the King/Peter Straub novel The...

 and Thomas G. Hadley. The memoirs were written by those who had lived in Providence, Rhode Island

Providence, Rhode Island

Providence is the capital and most populous city of Rhode Island and was one of the first cities established in the United States. Located in Providence County, it is the third largest city in the New England region...

 with Lovecraft. It was released in 1945

1945 in literature

The year 1945 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*November 1 - The magazine Ebony is published for the first time.*Noel Coward's short play, Still Life, is adapted to become the film, Brief Encounter....

 by Grant-Hadley Enterprises

Grant-Hadley Enterprises

Grant-Hadley Enterprises was the first of three names used by an American small press publishing house specializing in science fiction titles. The company was founded in 1945 by Donald M. Grant and Thomas G. Hadley and published one title as Grant-Hadley Enterprises. Kenneth J. Krueger joined the...

 in an edition of 500 copies. Grant Hadley reprinted the collection in December 1945 in an edition of 1,000 copies (this reprint has brown wrappers, whereas the true first edition is in green wrappers). Aside from the reprint, it was the only book published by Grant-Hadley.

Contents

• Foreword, by the editors
• "Lovecraft as a 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....
  
   (note: this first version of Scott's essay was revised as " A Parenthesis on Lovecraft as Poet" and was printed in Scott's Exiles and Fabrications; revised version also reprinted in S.T. Joshi (ed). H.P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1980).
• "Lovecraft and Benefit Street", by Dorothy C. Walter
• "Howard Phillips Lovecraft", by Mrs. Muriel E. Eddy
• "Miscellaneous Impressions", by Marian F. Bonner
• "A Glimpse of H.P.L.", by Mary V. Dana

Marion F. Bonner's surname was incorrectly printed in the publication as 'Barner'.

The memoir by Walter had a previous publication in booklet form (North Montpelier, VT: W. Paul Cook (Driftwind Press) [1943].

The memoirs by Bonner, Dana and Walter have been reprinted in Peter Cannon (ed) Lovecraft Remembered

Lovecraft Remembered

Lovecraft Remembered is a collection of memoirs about H. P. Lovecraft and is edited by Peter Cannon. It was released in 1998 by Arkham House in an edition of 3,579 copies. Nearly all the memoirs from previous Arkham publications of Lovecraft miscellany are included.-Contents:Lovecraft Remembered...

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