A Weird Writer In Our Midst: Early Criticism Of H. P. Lovecraft

• edited by S. T. Joshi
• 2010:
• Paper: ISBN 978-0-9844802-1-0:
• $20.00

 

The emergence of H. P. Lovecraft from a titan in the tiny fields of amateur journalism and pulp fiction to a writer of canonical status in American and world literature is little short of incredible—perhaps unparalleled by any other writer in Western literature. The present volume seeks to chart the earliest phases of that transformation, reprinting articles, reviews, and other matter during and just after Lovecraft’s lifetime, up to about 1955