H. P. Lovecraft is distinctive for having inspired a plethora of poetic tributes from friends, colleagues, and disciples. These tributes emerged surprisingly early; the first ones date to 1918, when several amateur writers took note of the unique characteristics of Lovecraft’s life and work. During his lifetime, Samuel Loveman, Frank Belknap Long, Robert E. Howard, Donald Wandrei, and others sought to portray Lovecraft’s inimitable personality and his innovative work in wide-ranging verse.
After Lovecraft’s early death in 1937, other writers—Clark Ashton Smith, August Derleth, R. H. Barlow, Joseph Payne Brennan, Lilith Lorraine—paid homage to him in odes, quatrains, and sonnets. The tradition has continued to the present day, with such contemporary writers as Ann K. Schwader, Leigh Blackmore, Wade German, W. H. Pugmire, Adam Bolivar, Fred Phillips, and countless others envisioning the myriad phases of Lovecraft’s creative work in poetry that itself evokes the terror and pathos of his writing.
This volume contains dozens of poems, written over a period of more than a century, in which a multitude of diverse authors use the medium of poetry to convey their devotion to Lovecraft the man and to his imperishable literary oeuvre.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
I. Poems about Lovecraft
Lovecraft—An Appreciation / Arthur Goodenough
Greeting / John Milton Samples
At Providence in 1918 / Rheinhart Kleiner
To Satan / Samuel Loveman
Epistle to Mr. and Mrs. Lovecraft / Rheinhart Kleiner
Bacchanale / Samuel Loveman
The Four of Us! / Rheinhart Kleiner
[To Lewis Theobald] / Frank Belknap Long
To Mr. Theobald / Samuel Loveman
After a Decade / Rheinhart Kleiner
Elegy: In Providence the Spring . . . / August Derleth
To Howard Phillips Lovecraft / Clark Ashton Smith
For H. P. Lovecraft / Henry Kuttner
H. P. Lovecraft / Elizabeth Toldridge
Divinity / Elizabeth Toldridge
Yet Still We Mourn / Frank Earle Schermerhorn
H. P. L. / Henry Kuttner
Lost Dream / Emil Petaja
H. P. L. / Albert Chapin
H. P. Lovecraft / Frank Belknap Long
H. P. L. / R. H. Barlow
H. P. L. / Rheinhart Kleiner
For Howard Phillips Lovecraft / Robert A. W. Lowndes
To Howard Phillips Lovecraft / Henry George Weiss
For the Outsider: H. P. Lovecraft / Charles E. White
In Memoriam: H. P. Lovecraft / Richard Ely Morse
Anniversary / R. H. Barlow
HPL / Vincent Starrett
Homage to H. P. Lovecraft / Felix Stefanile
H. P. L. / Clark Ashton Smith
Lines to H. P. Lovecraft / Joseph Payne Brennan
Revenants / August Derleth
A Walk in Providence / J. Vernon Shea
To H. P. Lovecraft / S. T. Joshi
At Lovecraft’s Grave / Brett Rutherford
Providence: March 15, 1937 / Leigh Blackmore
In a Sequestered Churchyard Where Once Lovecraft Walked / Leigh Blackmore
In Swan Point Cemetery / Robert H. Waugh
Ave Augustissime: An Acrostic Sonnet on H. P. Lovecraft, Esq. / Manuel Pérez-Campos
On a Threadbare Photograph of H.P.L. at 66 College St. / Manuel Pérez-Campos
H.P.L.: R.I.P. / Manuel Arenas
Seer of Black Spheres / Scott J. Couturier
The Haunter of College Hill / David Barker
Lovecraft / Fred Phillips
II. Poems Inspired by Lovecraft
Selenaio-Phantasma / Alfred Galpin
The Unknown Color / Donald Wandrei
Arkham / Robert E. Howard
Mad Dream / Richard Ely Morse
Shadow over Innsmouth / Virginia Anderson
The Acolytes / Lilith Lorraine
Mountains of Madness / Richard L. Tierney
To Great Cthulhu / Richard L. Tierney
In Memoriam Arthur Jermyn / Ann K. Schwader
The Coming of Chaos / Ann K. Schwader
Dunwich Pastoral / Wade German
Faint Echoes / Ann K. Schwader
“The Hound” / W. H. Pugmire
“The Outsider” / W. H. Pugmire
The Keeper of the Innsmouth Light / M. F. Webb
Kiosk to Kadath / Chad Hensley
Zann / Ian Futter
Forty Years in Innsmouth / M. F. Webb
Azathoth / Charles Lovecraft
R’lyeh / F. J. Bergmann
The Crypt of Nitocris / David Barker
Elder Beings / Leigh Blackmore
The Ballad of the de la Poers / Adam Bolivar
Shadow over Arkham / Fred Phillips
The King of Horrors, Howard Phillips Lovecraft / Charles Lovecraft
Stanzas of the Metaphysical Student Found in a Notebook / Manuel Pérez-Campos
O Iranon / Charles Lovecraft
Jenkin / Ross Balcom
Dancing Before Azathoth / Darrell Schweitzer
Things Man Was Meant to Know / DJ Tyrer
The Sunken City / Ngo Binh Anh Khoa
The Dreamer and the Dreaded Ones / Frank Coffman
The Basalt City / Linn Donlon
Lovecraftian Visions: A Grander Species of Monster / Andrew White
The Guide / Scott J. Couturier
To Curse What the Moon Brings / Maxwell I. Gold
Randwulf’s Return / Adam Bolivar
Veniat ei Malum qui Vocat Malum / Frank Coffman
Sentinel Hill / Ann K. Schwader and David C. Kopaska-Merkel
Azathoth; or, The Daemon-Sultan / Leigh Blackmore
Sources
About the Contributors
Indexes
Authors
Titles and First Lines
This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 18 July, 2023.
