Edited by Peter Cannon
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In the years following H.P. Lovecraft’s premature death in
1937, many of his friends and admirers were moved to write down their
personal impressions of the man. These early reminiscences appeared
mainly in obscure amateur journals or in the Arkham House miscellany
volumes starting in 1944 with Marginalia. Some of the more
important ones have since been reprinted, but a great deal of worthy
material for too long has been available, if available at all, only to
those willing to pay high premiums in the collector’s market.
Now, in one omnibus volume, Lovecraft scholar Peter Cannon has
gathered all the major shorter memoirs, together with some rare
contemporary glimpses from the amateur press before the master fantasist
made his mark in Weird Tales. Here are such classic tributes from
the 1940s as W. Paul Cook’s “In Memoriam,” Winfield Townley Scott’s “His
Own Most Fantastic Creation,” and R.H. Barlow’s “The Wind That Is in the
Grass.” Later reminiscences include Kenneth Sterling’s brilliant account
of Lovecraft in his final years in Providence and Mara Kirk Hart’s
fascinating chronicle of the Kalem Club based on the letters of her
father, George Kirk.
Rounding out the book is a selection of early criticism, which
charts the progress of Lovecraft’s reputation from August Derleth’s
Cthulhu mythologizing to Fritz Leiber’s cosmic insights. Veteran
Lovecraftians and new acolytes alike will welcome Lovecraft
Remembered as an invaluable trove of first-hand information on their
literary hero.
Contents
- List of illustrations
- Introduction
- Neighbors
- Winfield Townley Scott, “His Own Most Fantastic Creation: Howard
Phillips Lovecraft” (1944)
- Marian F. Bonner, “Miscellaneous Impressions of H.P.L” (1945)
- Mary V. Dana, “A Glimpse of H.P.L.” (1945)
- August Derleth, “Lovecraft’s Sensitivity” (1949)
- Dorothy C. Walter, “Three Hours with H.P. Lovecraft” (1959)
- Muriel Eddy, “The Gentleman from Angell Street” (1961)
- C.M. Eddy, Jr., “Walks with H.P. Lovecraft” (1966)
- Harold W. Munro, “Lovecraft, My Childhood Friend” (1983)
- Amateurs
- Andrew Francis Lockhart, “Little Journeys to the Homes of Prominent
Amateurs” (1915)
- Edith Miniter, amateur writings (1920-1923)
- George Julian Houtain, amateur writings (1921)
- Maurice W. Moe, “Howard Phillips Lovecraft: The Sage of Providence”
(1937)
- Ira Cole, “A Tribute from the Past” (1937)
- E.A. Edkins, “Idiosyncracies of H.P.L.” (1940)
- Edward H. Cole, “Ave atque Vale!” (1940)
- W. Paul Cook, “In Memoriam: Howard Phillips Lovecraft:
Recollections, Appreciations, Estimates” (1941)
- Rheinhart Kleiner, “Discourse on H.P. Lovecraft” (1951)
- Alfred Galpin, “Memories of a Friendship” (1959)
- L. Sprague de Camp, “Young Man Lovecraft” (1978)
- Kalems
- James F. Morton, “A Few Memories” (1940)
- Frank Belknap Long, “Some Random Memories of H.P.L.” (1944)
- Rheinhart Kleiner, “Bards and Bibliophiles” (1944)
- Rheinhart Kleiner, “A Memoir of Lovecraft” (1949)
- Samuel Loveman, “Howard Phillips Lovecraft” (1949)
- Samuel Loveman, “Lovecraft as a Conversationalist” (1958)
- Wilfred B. Talman, “The Normal Lovecraft” (1973)
- Mara Kirk Hart, “Walkers in the City: George Willard Kirk and Howard
Phillips Lovecraft in New York City, 1924-1926” (1993)
- Ladies
- Hazel Heald, “In Memoriam” (1937)
- Sonia H. Davis, “Lovecraft as I Knew Him” (1949)
- Zealia Bishop, “H.P. Lovecraft: A Pupil’s View” (1953)
- Sonia H. Davis, “Memories of Lovecraft: I” (1969)
- Helen V. Sully, “Memories of Lovecraft: II” (1969)
- Professionals
- Robert Bloch, letter to Weird Tales (1937)
- Clark Ashton Smith, letter to Weird Tales (1937)
- Robert W. Lowndes, “A Tribute to Lovecraft” (1937)
- Henry George Weiss (Francis Flagg), “The Genius of Lovecraft” (1937)
- E. Hoffmann Price, “The Man Who Was Lovecraft” (1949)
- Fritz Leiber, “My Correspondence with Lovecraft” (1958)
- Donald Wandrei, “Lovecraft in Providence” (1959)
- Robert Bloch, “Out of the Ivory Tower” (1959)
- H. Warner Munn, “H.P.L.: A Reminiscence” (1976)
- Vrest Orton, “Recollections of H.P. Lovecraft” (1982)
- Fans
- R.H. Barlow, “The Barlow Journal” (1934)
- R.H. Barlow, “The Wind That Is in the Grass: A Memoir of H.P.
Lovecraft in Florida” (1944)
- William L. Crawford, “Lovecraft’s First Book” (1959)
- J. Vernon Shea, “H.P. Lovecraft: The House and the Shadows” (1966)
- Kenneth Sterling, “Caverns Measureless to Man” (1976)
- Will Murray, “Autumn in Providence: Harry K. Brobst on Lovecraft”
(1997)
- Critics
- Rheinhart Kleiner, “A Note on Howard P. Lovecraft’s Verse” (1919)
- Howard Wolf, “Variety” column (1927)
- Robert E. Howard, letter to Weird Tales (1928)
- Vrest Orton, “A Weird Writer Is in Our Midst” (1928)
- August Derleth, “H.P. Lovecraft, Outsider” (1937)
- Dorothy C. Walter, “Lovecraft and Benefit Street” (1943)
- T.O. Mabbott, “H.P. Lovecraft: An Appreciation” (1944)
- Kenneth Sterling, “Lovecraft and Science” (1944)
- Vincent Starrett, “H.P. Lovecraft” (1944)
- Vincent Starrett, “The Lovecraft Legend” (1945)
- Winfield Townley Scott, “A Parenthesis on Lovecraft as Poet” (1945)
- Matthew H. Onderdonk, “The Lord of R’lyeh” (1945)
- Matthew H. Onderdonk, “Charon – In Reverse; Or, H.P. Lovecraft Versus
the ‘Realists’ of Fantasy” (1948)
- Fritz Leiber, “A Literary Copernicus” (1949)
- Joseph Payne Brennan, “H.P. Lovecraft, An Evaluation” (1955)
- Fritz Leiber, “Through Hyperspace with Brown Jenkin: Lovecraft’s
Contribution to Speculative Fiction” (1966)
- Frank Belknap Long, “Epilogue: Lovecraft and Poe” (1975)
Bibliographic Information
Lovecraft Remembered. Edited by Peter Cannon. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House Publishers,
Inc.; 1999; ISBN 0-87054-173-0; Hardcover.
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