Complete Collected Essays of H. P. Lovecraft - Horror - CD-Rom

Description: Complete Collected Essays of H. P. Lovecraft - Digital - Hippocampus Press, 2008 Out of Print & Scarce. CD-ROM. H. P. Lovecraft has received world renown as an author of supernatural fiction, but during his lifetime he wrote far more essays than stories. This digital edition gathers Lovecraft's complete nonfictional output for the first time, arranged in broad thematic groupings.All texts are exhaustively annotated, with critical and bibliographical notes, by S. T. Joshi. As a bonus, the complete run of Lovecraft's own amateur magazine, The Conservative, is included. Contents:Volume 1: Amateur JournalismVolume 2: Literary CriticismVolume 3: ScienceVolume 4: TravelVolume 5: Philosophy, Autobiography & MiscellanyThe Conservative In this first volume, Lovecraft’s prolific writings on amateur journalism are collected. Discovering the amateur press in 1914, Lovecraft immediately flooded the many small papers of his friends and colleagues with contributions discussing the nature, purpose, and future of amateur journalism. He also edited his own magazine, The Conservative (1915–23), filling it with additional essays. In these articles Lovecraft discusses such issues as the conflicting motives of the United Amateur Press Association and the National Amateur Press Association; the halcyon days of the amateur movement (1885–95); and the needs and betterment of the amateur cause. We read of bitter feuds with such individuals as William J. Dowdell and Graeme Davis; of Lovecraft’s exhaustive criticisms of amateur writing in his “Department of Public Criticism” and “Bureau of Critics” columns; and, most poignant of all, his touching affirmation of “What Amateurdom and I Have Done for Each Other,” in which he concludes simply: “What Amateur Journalism has given me is – life itself.” A Task for Amateur Journalists Department of Public Criticism (November 1914) Department of Public Criticism (January 1915) Department of Public Criticism (March 1915) What Is Amateur Journalism? Consolidation’s Autopsy The Amateur Press Editorial (April 1915) The Question of the Day The Morris Faction For President—Leo Fritter Introducing Mr. Chester Pierce Munroe [Untitled Notes on Amateur Journalism] Department of Public Criticism (May 1915) Finale New Department Proposed: Instruction for the Recruit Our Candidate Exchanges For Historian—Ira A. Cole Editorial (July 1915) The Conservative and His Critics (July 1915) Some Political Phases Introducing Mr. John Russell In a Major Key Amateur Notes The Dignity of Journalism Department of Public Criticism (September 1915) Editorial (October 1915) The Conservative and His Critics (October 1915) The Youth of Today An Impartial Spectator [Untitled Notes on Amateur Journalism] Little Journeys to the Homes of Prominent Amateurs: II. Andrew Francis Lockhart Report of First Vice-President (November 1915) Department of Public Criticism (December 1915) Systematic Instruction in the United United Amateur Press Association: Exponent of Amateur Journalism Introducing Mr. James Pyke Report of First Vice-President (January 1916) Editorial (February 1916) Department of Public Criticism (April 1916) Among the New-Comers Department of Public Criticism (June 1916) Department of Public Criticism (August 1916) Department of Public Criticism (September 1916) Among the Amateurs Concerning “Persia—in Europe” Amateur Standards A Request Department of Public Criticism (March 1917) Department of Public Criticism (May 1917) A Reply to The Lingerer The United’s Problem Editorially The “Other United” Department of Public Criticism (July 1917) Little Journeys to the Homes of Prominent Amateurs: V. Eleanor J. Barnhart News Notes (July 1917) President’s Message (September 1917) President’s Message (November 1917) President’s Message (January 1918) Department of Public Criticism (January 1918) President’s Message (March 1918) Department of Public Criticism (March 1918) President’s Message (May 1918) Department of Public Criticism (May 1918) Comment President’s Message (July 1918) Amateur Criticism The United 1917–1918 The Amateur Press Club Les Mouches Fantastiques Department of Public Criticism (September 1918) Department of Public Criticism (November 1918) News Notes (November 1918) [Letter to the Bureau of Critics] Department of Public Criticism (January 1919) Department of Public Criticism (March 1919) Winifred Virginia Jordan: Associate Editor Helene Hoffman Cole—Litterateur Department of Public Criticism (May 1919) Trimmings For Official Editor—Anne Tillery Renshaw Amateurdom Looking Backward For What Does the United Stand? The Pseudo-United The Conquest of the Hub Club News Notes (September 1920) Amateur Journalism: Its Possible Needs and Betterment Editorial (November 1920) News Notes (November 1920) News Notes (January 1921) The United’s Policy 1920–1921 What Amateurdom and I Have Done for Each Other News Notes (March 1921) The Vivisector (March 1921) [Letter to John Milton Heins] Lucubrations Lovecraftian News Notes (May 1921) The Vivisector (June 1921) The Haverhill Convention News Notes (July 1921) Within the Gates The Convention Banquet Editorial (September 1921) News Notes (September 1921) A Singer of Ethereal Moods and Fancies News Notes (November 1921) [Letter to John Milton Heins] Editorial (January 1922) News Notes (January 1922) Rainbow Called Best First Issue News Notes (March 1922) The Vivisector (March 1922) News Notes (May 1922) [Letter to the N.A.P.A.] President’s Message (November 1922–January 1923) President’s Message (March 1923) Bureau of Critics (March 1923) Rursus Adsumus The Vivisector (Spring 1923) President’s Message (May 1923) Lovecraft’s Greeting President’s Message (July 1923) [Untitled Notes on Amateur Journalism] The President’s Annual Report Trends and Objects Editorial (May 1924) News Notes (May 1924) Editorial (July 1925) News Notes (July 1925) A Matter of Uniteds The Convention Bureau of Critics (December 1931) Critics Submit First Report Verse Criticism Report of Bureau of Critics Bureau of Critics Comment on Verse, Typography, Prose Bureau of Critics (June 1934) Chairman of the Bureau of Critics Reports on Poetry Mrs. Miniter—Estimates and Recollections Report of the Bureau of Critics (December 1934) Report of the Bureau of Critics (March 1935) Lovecraft Offers Verse Criticism Dr. Eugene B. Kuntz Some Current Amateur Verse Report of the Executive Judges Some Current Motives and Practices [Letter to the N.A.P.A.] [Literary Review] Defining the “Ideal” Paper Appendix [Miscellaneous Notes in the United Amateur] Official Organ Fund [Untitled Note on Amateur Poetry] [On Notes High and Low by Carrie Adams Berry] A Voice from the Grave This second volume of Lovecraft’s collected essays is devoted to his writings in the realm of literary criticism. Lovecraft did not consider himself a literary critic by trade, but his essays are unfailingly acute and cover a surprisingly wide range. Early in his career, Lovecraft was unduly influenced by classical authority; but one felicitous product of this classical immersion is the authoritative essay, “The Literature of Rome” (1918). Lovecraft condemns free verse and simple spelling, and also devotes some attention to such neglected amateur poets as Lilian Middleton and Winifred Virginia Jackson. By the 1920s Lovecraft had discovered that weird fiction was his chosen field, and he produced such scintillating essays as “Lord Dunsany and His Work” (1922) and “Supernatural Horror in Literature” (1927), along with an essay on his friend Frank Belknap Long and a review of Clark Ashton Smith’s Ebony and Crystal. Late in life Lovecraft codified his grasp of weird literature by writing such trenchant pieces as “Notes on Writing Weird Fiction” (1933) and “Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction” (1934). One of his last writings, “Suggestions for a Reading Guide” (1936), is a comprehensive discussion of world literature. Metrical Regularity The Allowable Rhyme The Proposed Authors’ Union The Vers Libre Epidemic Poesy The Despised Pastoral The Literature of Rome The Simple Spelling Mania The Case for Classicism Literary Composition Editor’s Note to “A Scene for Macbeth” by Samuel Loveman Winifred Virginia Jackson: A “Different” Poetess The Poetry of Lilian Middleton Lord Dunsany and His Work Rudis Indigestaque Moles Introduction [to The Poetical Works of Jonathan E. Hoag] Ars Gratia Artis In the Editor’s Study [Random Notes] [Review of Ebony and Crystal by Clark Ashton Smith] The Professional Incubus The Omnipresent Philistine The Work of Frank Belknap Long, Jr. Supernatural Horror in Literature Preface [to White Fire by John Ravenor Bullen] Notes on “Alias Peter Marchall”, by A. F. Lorenz Foreword [to Thoughts and Pictures by Eugene B. Kuntz] Notes on Verse Technique Weird Story Plots [Notes on Weird Fiction] Notes on Writing Weird Fiction Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction What Belongs in Verse [Suggestions for a Reading Guide] Appendix The Poetry of John Ravenor Bullen The Favourite Weird Stories of H.P. Lovecraft Supernatural Horror in Literature This third volume of Lovecraft’s collected essays presents his complete published writings in the realm of science, chiefly those of astronomy, but also including some essays on anthropology and folklore. Science was one of Lovecraft’s earliest interests, and he frequently testified that his discovery of astronomy at the age of 11 led to the formation of his distinctively cosmic vision. His first published work was a letter to the Providence Sunday Journal on a point of astronomy; shortly thereafter, he began writing two separate astronomy columns, for the Pawtuxet Valley Gleaner (1906) and the Providence Tribune (1906–08), the latter containing hand-drawn star-charts. After a hiatus, he wrote an extensive monthly astronomy column for the Providence Evening News (1914–18), in which the dry recitation of astronomical phenomena for the month was enlivened by elucidations of the Greek myths behind the names of the constellations, discussions of important astronomical discoveries over the centuries, and snippets of Lovecraft’s poetry. His “Mysteries of the Heavens” is a compact survey of the entire realm of astronomy, written for the Asheville (N.C.) Gazette-News in 1915. As a whole, this volume displays Lovecraft’s devotion to science as the ultimate arbiter of truth and as the solid foundation of his cosmic voyagings in the realm of weird fiction. My Opinion as to the Lunar Canals No Transit of Mars Trans-Neptunian Planets The Moon The Earth Not Hollow [Astronomy Articles for the Pawtuxet Valley Gleaner] The Heavens for August The Skies of September Is Mars an Inhabited World? Is There Life on the Moon? An Interesting Phenomenon October Heavens Are There Undiscovered Planets? Can the Moon Be Reached by Man? The Moon [Untitled] The Sun The Leonids Comets December Skies The Fixed Stars Clusters—Nebulae January Heavens [Astronomy Articles for the Providence Tribune] In the August Sky The September Heavens Astronomy in October The Skies of November The Heavens for December The Heavens in January The Heavens in February The Heavens in March April Skies The Heavens in May The Heavens in June Astronomy in August The Heavens for September The Skies of October The Heavens in November Heavens for December The Heavens in January February Skies The Heavens in Month of March Solar Eclipse Feature of June Heavens Third Annual Report of the Prov. Meteorological Station Celestial Objects for All Venus and the Public Eye [Astronomy Articles for the Providence Evening News] The January Sky The February Sky The March Sky The April Sky May Sky The June Sky The July Sky The August Sky The September Sky The October Sky The November Sky The December Sky The January Sky The February Sky The March Sky April Skies The May Sky The June Skies The July Skies The August Skies September Skies October Skies November Skies December Skies January Skies February Skies March Skies April Skies May Skies June Skies July Skies August Skies September Skies October Skies November Skies December Skies January Skies February Skies March Skies April Skies May Skies June Skies July Skies August Skies September Skies October Skies November Skies December Skies January Skies February Skies March Skies April Skies May Skies [Science versus Charlatanry] Science versus Charlatanry The Falsity of Astrology Astrology and the Future Delavan’s Comet and Astrology The Fall of Astrology [Isaac Bickerstaffe’s Reply] Mysteries of the Heavens Revealed by Astronomy I. The Sky and Its Contents [II.] The Solar System III. The Sun IV. The Inferior Planets V. Eclipses VI. The Earth and Its Moon VII. Mars and the Asteroids VIII. The Outer Planets [The Outer Planets, Part II] IX. Comets and Meteors Comets and Meteors [Part II] X. The Stars [The Stars, Part II] XI. Clusters and Nebulae [Clusters and Nebulae, Part II] XII. The Constellations [The Constellations, Part II] XIII. Telescopes and Observatories [Telescopes and Observatories, Part II] Editor’s Note to “The Irish and the Fairies” by Peter J. MacManus Brumalia The Truth about Mars The Cancer of Superstition [Some Backgrounds of Fairyland] Appendix Does “Vulcan” Exist? Astronomical Notebook [Astronomy Articles by J. F. Hartmann] Astrology and the European War [Letter to the Editor] The Science of Astrology A Defense of Astrology Lovecraft’s Juvenile Scientific Manuscripts This fourth volume of Lovecraft’s collected essays contains his complete travel writings, one of the most distinctive and heartwarming segments of his work. During the last decade of his life, Lovecraft devoted nearly every summer to extensive travels up and down the eastern seaboard, from Quebec to Key West, in search of antiquarian oases. He came to love the town of Charleston, South Carolina, second only to his native city of Providence, Rhode Island. His trip to Vermont in 1927, recorded in his essay “Vermont—A First Impression,” was instrumental in the writing of “The Whisperer in Darkness” three years later. “Observations on Several Parts of America” (1928) and “Travels in the Provinces of America” (1929) reveal, in a flawless replication of eighteenth-century English, his fascination with such locales as Philadelphia, Maryland, and Virginia. “A Description of the Town of Quebeck” (1930–31) is his single longest work, longer than any of his tales; it is printed here for the first time in a corrected text. Also included is the curious pseudo-travelogue “European Glimpses” (1932), ghostwritten for his ex-wife, Sonia, and a previously unpublished travelogue telling of his trip to the Fairbanks house (1636) and the Red Horse Tavern in Massachusetts. The Trip of Theobald Vermont—A First Impression Observations on Several Parts of America Travels in the Provinces of America An Account of a Trip to the Antient Fairbanks House, in Dedham, and to the Red Horse Tavern in Sudbury, in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay Account of a Visit to Charleston, S.C. An Account of Charleston, in His Majty’s Province of South-Carolina A Description of the Town of Quebeck in New-France, Lately added to His Britannick Majesty’s Dominions European Glimpses Some Dutch Footprints in New England Homes and Shrines of Poe The Unknown City in the Ocean Charleston Appendix A Descent to Avernus Sleepy Hollow To-day This fifth and final volume of Lovecraft’s Collected Essays mines a rich vein of his philosophical writings. A lifelong student of metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, and other branches of philosophy, Lovecraft early declared himself a forthright materialist and atheist. Here he defends his views in numerous controversies with colleagues. Such essays as “Idealism and Materialism—A Reflection” and the In Defence of Dagon essays outline the essentials of Lovecraft’s philosophical thought, including such issues as free will, the improbability of theism, and cosmic pessimism. In his later years, the problems of politics and economics came to the forefront of his attention. In the essays “Some Repetitions on the Times,” “A Layman Looks at the Government,” and the unpublished “The Journal and the New Deal” Lovecraft vigorously argues for a moderate socialism to relieve the widespread unemployment brought on by the Depression. The problem of art in the modern age also concerned Lovecraft, and in the unpublished essay “A Living Heritage: Roman Architecture in Today’s America” Lovecraft condemns modern architecture as an inherently ugly product of sterile theory. This volume also contains Lovecraft’s autobiographical essays, including the delightful “A Confession of Unfaith,” describing his shedding of religious belief, and the piquant “Cats and Dogs,” in which cats stand as symbols for the abstract beauty of a boundless cosmos. Philosophy The Crime of the Century The Renaissance of Manhood Liquor and Its Friends More Chain Lightning Symphony and Stress Old England and the “Hyphen” Revolutionary Mythology The Symphonic Ideal “Editor’s Note” to “The Genesis of the Revolutionary War” by Henry Clapham McGavack A Remarkable Document At the Root Time and Space Merlinus Redivivus Anglo-Saxondom Americanism The League Bolshevism Idealism and Materialism—A Reflection Life for Humanity’s Sake [In Defence of Dagon] Nietzscheism and Realism East and West Harvard Conservatism The Materialist Today Some Causes of Self-Immolation Some Repetitions on the Times A Layman Looks at the Government The Journal and the New Deal A Living Heritage: Roman Architecture in Today’s America Objections to Orthodox Communism Autobiography and Miscellany The Brief Autobiography of an Inconsequential Scribbler A Confession of Unfaith [Diary: 1925] [Commercial Blurbs] Cats and Dogs Notes on Hudson Valley History Autobiography of Howard Phillips Lovecraft In Memoriam: Henry St. Clair Whitehead Some Notes on a Nonentity Correspondence between R.H. Barlow and Wilson Shepherd of Oakman, Alabama—Sept.–Nov. 1932 In Memoriam: Robert Ervin Howard Commonplace Book Instructions in Case of Decease [Diary—1937] [Notes for Stories] [Notes to “Medusa’s Coil”] [Notes to At the Mountains of Madness] [Notes to “The Shadow over Innsmouth”] [The Round Tower] [The Rose Window] Of Evill Sorceries Done in New-England, of Daemons in No Humane Shape [Notes to “The Shadow out of Time”] [Notes to “The Challenge From Beyond”] [Miscellaneous Lists and Notes] [1] Catalogue of Prov. Press Co. [2] [Catalogue of Works (1902)] [3] [Postal Expenses] [4] Old Farmer’s Almanacks Wanted by H.P. Lovecraft [5] [Notes on Clothing Stores] [6] [Works Desired by H. Warner Munn] [7] [Works of Weird Fiction] [8] Tales by H.P. Lovecraft [9] Basic Books for a Weird Library [10] [Remembrancer] [11] [List of Amateur Papers] [12] [Possible Collections of Tales] [13] [Magazine Addresses] [14] [List of Individuals to Be Sent “The Battle That Ended the Century”] [15] [List of Correspondents to Whom Postcards Have Been Sent] [16] Suggested Recipients for Dragon Fly Outside Memb. List of NAPA [17] Fungi from Yuggoth and Other Verses [18] [Notable Stories in Recent Issues of Weird Tales] [19] “Little Magazines” [20] [Worthy Stories in Recent Issues of Weird Tales] [21] [Pronunciation Guide] [22] Tales of H.P. Lovecraft Weird &c. Items in Library of H.P. Lovecraft Appendix [Advertisement of Revisory Services] [Advertisement in the New York Times] The Recognition of Temperance [Advertisement in Weird Tales] [Biographical Notice] Preface [to Old World Footprints] [E’ch-Pi-El Speaks] Robert Ervin Howard: 1906–1936

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