Lovecraft Remembered

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Lovecraft Remembered

Dust-jacket illustration by Jason C. Eckhardt for Lovecraft Remembered
Author edited by Peter Cannon
Cover artist Jason C. Eckhardt
Country United States
Language English
Subject(s) Memoir
Publisher Arkham House
Publication date 1998
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages xiv, 486 pp
ISBN ISBN 0-87054-173-0

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.

[edit] Contents

Lovecraft Remembered contains the following memoirs:

  • "Introduction", by Peter Cannon
  • I. Neighbors
    • "His Own Most Fantastic Creation: Howard Phillips Lovecraft", by Windfield Townley Scott
    • "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
    • "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.
    • "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
  • III. Kalems
    • "A Few Memories", by James F. Morton
    • "Some Random Memories of H.P.L.", by Frank Belknap Long
    • "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
    • "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
    • "Memories of Lovecraft: I", by Sonia H. Davis
    • "Memories of Lovecraft: II", by Helen V. Sully
  • V. Professionals
  • 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
    • "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
  • VII. Critics
    • "A Note on Howard P. Lovecraft's Verse", by Rheinhart Kleiner
    • Variety column, by Howard Wolf
    • letter to Weird Tales, by Robert E. Howard
    • "A Weird Writer Is in Our Midst", by Vrest Orton
    • "H. P. Lovecraft, Outsider", by August Derleth
    • "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
    • "The Lovecraft Legend", by Vincent Starrett
    • "A Parenthesis on Lovecraft as Poet", by Winfield Townley Scott
    • "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
    • "H. P. Lovecraft, An Evaluation", by Joseph Payne Brennan
    • "Through Hyperspace with Brown Jenkin: Lovecraft's Contribution to Speculative Fiction", by Fritz Leiber
    • "Epilogue: Lovecraft and Poe", by Frank Belknap Long

[edit] References

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  • Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1999). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998, Supplement 7. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd., 3-4. 
  • Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 171-172. ISBN 0-87054-176-5. 
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