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This, the Lovecraft volume of Books at Brown, contains “expanded
versions of papers given by participants in the H.P. Lovecraft Centennial
Conference that was held at Brown University on August 17-19, 1990.” Also
included in this volume are a series of letters written by Lovecraft to
John T. Dunn, co-founder of the Providence Amateur Press Club. Dunn, who
was “fanatically pro-Irish” and, therefore, anti-British, refused to
respond to the draft in World War I and was subsequently court-martialed.
Although he served a number of years in the Atlanta Federal Prison, he was
released soon after the war and spent most of the rest of his life as a
priest in the Catholic Church. These letters not only shed light on
Lovecraft’s attitudes regarding World War I, but on his involvement in
amateur journalism.
This volume also includes a number of illustrations, including those of
several of Lovecraft’s original manuscripts, his map of Arkham, his
illustration of Cthulhu, and photographs of both Lovecraft (at 25), and
his grandfather, Whipple Van Buren Phillips. The introduction also
details the recent discovery of Lovecraft’s hand-written manuscript of
“The Shadow out of Time.”
Contents
- Introduction
- John H. Stanley
- Some Thoughts on the Current State of Lovecraft
Studies
- Peter Cannon
- Lovecraft: Dreams and Reality
- Donald R. Burleson
- Lovecraft’s Narrators
- Norman R. Gayford
- Lovecraft’s Arkham Country
- Will Murray
- Lovecraft’s Mythology of the Old Ones
- Robert M. Price
- Lovecraft’s Parental Heritage
- Kenneth W. Faig, Jr.
- An Autobiographical Study of “The Colour out of Space”
- John
McInnis
- H.P. Lovecraft and Surrealism
- Maurice Lévy
- H.P. Lovecraft’s Reception in France since 1980
- Gilles
Menegaldo
- Recognition of Lovecraft in Germany
- Kalju Kirde
- Italy and Lovecraft: A Case for Weird Fiction
- Giuseppe Lippi
- Concluding Address
- S.T. Joshi
- H.P. Lovecraft: Letters to John T. Dunn
- S.T. Joshi, David
E. Schultz and John H. Stanley
- Notes on the Contributors
- The Friends of the Library
- Officers and Directors
Purchasing This Book
Copies may be purchased for $20.00 each (or $15.00 each in quantities
of 10 or more) from:
The Friends of the Library
Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
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