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Miscellaneous Writings

H. P. Lovecraft

First published 1995
Publisher Arkham House
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Cover art James Turner (I)
Pages xiii+569
Price $29.95
ISBN 0870541684

Collection of essays, edited by S. T. Joshi.

Stated first edition. Month of publication per Locus1. 4959 copies printed per S.T. Joshi's Sixty Years of Arkham House. Jacket design by James Turner per Joshi. "Commonplace Book" appears to be expanded from previous appearances. Additionally, the entries are numbered (222) and dated by year. The introductions to each section are not titled and appear after the title page of each section.

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Dreams and Fancies (introduction) S. T. Joshi Essay
7 The Little Glass Bottle H. P. Lovecraft Short Story
9 The Secret Cave, or John Lees Adventure H. P. Lovecraft Short Story
11 The Mystery of the Grave-Yard, or "A Dead Man's Revenge": A Detective Story H. P. Lovecraft Short Story
15 The Mysterious Ship Howard Phillips Lovecraft Short Story
17 A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson H. P. Lovecraft Short Story
24 Old Bugs: An Extemporaneous Sob Story Marcus Lollius Short Story
31 Memory H. P. Lovecraft Poem
32 Nyarlathotep H. P. Lovecraft Short Fiction
35 Ex Oblivione H. P. Lovecraft Poem
37 What the Moon Brings H. P. Lovecraft Poem
39 Sweet Ermengarde; or, The Heart of a Country Girl Percy Simple Short Story
46 The Very Old Folk H. P. Lovecraft Short Story
52 History of the Necronomicon H. P. Lovecraft Short Story
54 Ibid H. P. Lovecraft Short Story
59 Discarded Draft of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" H. P. Lovecraft Short Story
66 The Battle That Ended a Century: (MS. Found in a Time Machine) H. P. Lovecraft & R. H. Barlow Short Story
72 Collapsing Cosmoses H. P. Lovecraft & R. H. Barlow Short Story
74 The Challenge from Beyond H. P. Lovecraft Short Story
83 The Weird Fantasist (introduction) S. T. Joshi Essay
87 Commonplace Book H. P. Lovecraft Essay
104 Lord Dunsany and His Work H. P. Lovecraft Essay
113 Notes on Writing Weird Fiction H. P. Lovecraft Essay
117 Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction H. P. Lovecraft Essay
123 In Memoriam: Robert Ervin Howard H. P. Lovecraft Essay
129 Mechanistic Materialist (introduction) S. T. Joshi Essay
133 Idealism and Materialism—A Reflection H. P. Lovecraft Essay
145 Life for Humanity's Sake H. P. Lovecraft Essay
147 In Defense of Dagon H. P. Lovecraft Essay
172 Nietzscheism and Realism H. P. Lovecraft Essay
176 The Materialist Today H. P. Lovecraft Essay
179 Some Causes of Self-Immolation: Motives for Voluntary Self-Subjugation to Unpleasant Conditions by Human Beings L. Theoboald, Jr. Essay
190 Heritage or Modernism: Common Sense in Art Forms H. P. Lovecraft Essay
201 Literary Critic (introduction) S. T. Joshi Essay
205 Metrical Regularity H. P. Lovecraft Essay
208 The Vers Libre Epidemic H. P. Lovecraft Essay
210 The Case for Classicism: A Reply to Prof. Philip B. McDonald H. P. Lovecraft Essay
214 Literary Composition H. P. Lovecraft Essay
222 Ars Gratia Artis H. P. Lovecraft Essay
224 The Poetry of Lilian Middleton H. P. Lovecraft Essay
228 "Petit A Petit, L'Oiseau Fait Son Nid!" Lillian Middleton Poem
232 Rudis Indigestaque Moles H. P. Lovecraft Essay
235 In the Editor's Study H. P. Lovecraft Essay
238 The Professional Incubus H. P. Lovecraft Essay
241 The Omnipresent Philistine H. P. Lovecraft Essay
244 What Belongs in Verse H. P. Lovecraft Essay
249 Political Theorist (introduction) S. T. Joshi Essay
253 The Crime of the Century H. P. Lovecraft Essay
256 More Chain Lightning H. P. Lovecraft Essay
259 Old England and the "Hyphen" H. P. Lovecraft Essay
262 Revolutionary Mythology H. P. Lovecraft Essay
264 Americanism H. P. Lovecraft Essay
267 The League H. P. Lovecraft Essay
269 Bolshevism H. P. Lovecraft Essay
271 Some Repetitions on the Times H. P. Lovecraft Essay
289 Antiquarian Travels (introduction) S. T. Joshi Essay
293 Vermont—A First Impression H. P. Lovecraft Essay
297 Observations on Several Parts of America H. Lovecraft Essay
319 Travels in the Provinces of America H. Lovecraft Essay
361 An Account of Charleston, in His Majty's Province of South-Carolina H. Lovecraft Essay
407 Some Dutch Footprints in New England H. P. Lovecraft Essay
411 Homes and Shrines of Poe H. P. Lovecraft Essay
419 Amateur Journalist (introduction) S. T. Joshi Essay
423 In a Major Key H. P. Lovecraft Essay
426 The Dignity of Journalism H. P. Lovecraft Essay
429 Symphony and Stress H. P. Lovecraft Essay
431 United Amateur Press Association: Exponent of Amateur Journalism H. P. Lovecraft Essay
439 A Reply to The Lingerer H. P. Lovecraft Essay
441 Les Mouches Fantastiques H. P. Lovecraft Essay
443 For What Does the United Stand? H. P. Lovecraft Essay
445 Amateur Journalism: Its Possible Needs and Betterment H. P. Lovecraft Essay
450 What Amateurdom and I have Done for Each Other H. P. Lovecraft Essay
453 Lucubrations Lovecraftian H. P. Lovecraft Essay
463 A Matter of Uniteds H. P. Lovecraft Essay
467 Mrs. Miniter—-Estimates and Recollections H. P. Lovecraft Essay
481 Some Current Motives and Practices H. P. Lovecraft Essay
489 Epistolarian (introduction) S. T. Joshi Essay
493 Trans-Neptunian Planets H. P. Lovecraft Essay
494 The Earth Not Hollow H. P. Lovecraft Essay
496 To The All-Story Weekly H. P. Lovecraft Essay
500 Science versus Charlatanry H. P. Lovecraft Essay
502 The Fall of Astrology H. P. Lovecraft Essay
506 To Edwin Baird (May, 1923) H. P. Lovecraft Essay
508 To Edwin Baird (November, 1923) H. P. Lovecraft Essay
511 The Old Brick Row H. P. Lovecraft Essay
516 To Nils H. Frome H. P. Lovecraft Essay
523 Personal (introduction) S. T. Joshi Essay
527 The Brief Autobiography of an Inconsequential Scribbler H. P. Lovecraft Essay
531 Within the Gates H. P. Lovecraft Essay
533 A Confession of Unfaith H. P. Lovecraft Essay
538 Commercial Blurbs H. P. Lovecraft Essay
545 Cats and Dogs H. P. Lovecraft Essay
558 Some Notes on a Nonentity H. P. Lovecraft Essay
565 Bibliography (Miscellaneous Writings) uncredited Essay
iv Editorial Note (Miscellaneous Writings) S. T. Joshi Essay
ix Introduction (Miscellaneous Writings) S. T. Joshi Essay