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S. T. Joshi
Atheism has been on the rise in the West for several decades, but its roots, including those belonging to secularism, agnosticism, and freethought, run deep in Western history, philosophy, and…
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Hippocampus Press celebrates the first half-decade of its acclaimed annual magazine of weird fiction, criticism, and poetry with a blockbuster issue containing a dozen stories, a sheaf of cutting-edge critical…
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Evenson Collection Well Worth Reading ........... Tony Fonseca
Brian Evenson, None of You Shall Be Spared.
Two Authors, Art, High Weirdness, and Being Down-and-Out on the Streets…
The latest issue of Spectral Realms contains an abundance of scintillating verse from the leading weird poets of today, including Ann K. Schwader, Frank Coffman, Scott J. Couturier, Wade German…
David Haden, Ken Faig, Jr
Lovecraft Annual is published once a year, in Fall. Articles and letters should be sent to the editor, S. T. Joshi, ? Hippocampus Press, and must be accompanied by a…
Katherine Kerestman
In less than a decade, Katherine Kerestman has established herself as a vibrant new voice in weird fiction. Drawing upon the classic work of Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft, and…
Robert Hichens
The Folly of Eustace: Eustace Lane decided at any early age to don the mask of the clown. People began to take notice, calling him a whimsical, irresponsible creature. He…
Shunned Houses delves into the larger realm of the supernatural through more than three dozen classic and contemporary short stories, poems, and essays by masters of the craft.
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Carl E Reed
Carl E. Reed is a vibrant new voice in weird fiction. But Reed has in fact been writing for more than twenty years, and as such he exhibits an assurance…
William Hope Hodgson
English writer William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) wrote a prodigious amount of fiction-weird, adventure, mainstream, and even proto-science fiction-during his relatively brief career, cut short when he died in Belgium during…
S T Joshi, David E Schultz
H. P. Lovecraft was one of the most well-read authors of his time, and his personal library constitutes an intimate glimpse into his mind and imagination. This fifth revised edition…
H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre for the twentieth century. Discarding witches and ghosts, he envisaged mankind as an outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe…
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The Lovecraftian Solar System ……. Fred S. Lubnow
Hungry fer Victuals I Couldn’t Raise nor Buy Anthropophagy in Lovecraft ……. Duncan NorrisThe Rings of Cthulhu: Lovecraft…
Table of Contents Lovecraft’s The Bride of the Sea and the Uses of Bathos………Manuel Perez-Campos Following The Ancient Track ………Jonathan Adams Letters to Carl Ferdinand Strauch………H. P. Lovecraft Appendix: A…
In this, the first academic study of Dunsany’s work, Joshi establishes that Dunsany has a remarkable grasp of the symbolic function of fantasy, and that he used fantasy, horror, and…
Discusses the ideas and impact of 27 atheists, agnostics, and secularists whose ideas have shaped society over the last 200 years. In the opinion of many critics and philosophers, we…
The Melancholia of H. P. Lovecraft’s The Music of Erich Zann
James Goho
Feminine Powerlessness and Deference in The Case of Charles Dexter WardCecelia Hopkins-Drewer
Ravening…
Examines the writings of such conservative icons as Russell Kirk, William F Buckley Jr, Phyllis Schlafly, and nine others. This book uncovers statements that most people would consider not just…
This fifth instalment of S. T. Joshi’s critically acclaimed Black Wings series features twenty stories that use H. P. Lovecraft’s mythos as the basis for imaginative ventures into the weird…
Assembles various writings on atheism, agnosticism, and scepticism. This book is arranged to address significant questions pertaining to religious belief - the existence of God, immortality, the nature of religious…
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Takes a controversial look at religion and its components, claiming that it lacks any evidence of existence, while calling for a presence of rationality and atheism.
Gathers together works which document the scorn and contempt for the ‘weaker sex’ that most women endured for generations. This title aims to make the readers appreciate all the more…
Beginning with an exploration of the atheism movement’s origins in the 19th century, when intellectuals, thinkers, and writers - such as Huxley, Nietzsche, and Twain - first openly voiced scepticism…
A unique anthology of skeptical essays on religion by eighteenth-century thinkers who questioned the reigning orthodoxy and raised doubts about belief in God. This is the first anthology ever published…
Some of Mencken s most interesting letters were written to George Sterling, a pupil of Ambrose Bierce. The correspondence which survives nearly intact on both sides covers a wealth of…
The fifteenth issue of Spectral Realms features scintillating work from many of the leading weird poets of today, including Frank Coffman, Wade German, K. A. Opperman, Ann K. Schwader, and…
S T Joshi
In addition to being a prolific critic and editor and an occasional fiction writer, S. T. Joshi has long been a classical musician-violinist, singer, composer, and conductor. Over the past…
A witty examination of America’s bestselling novels, covering works by Danielle Steel, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Nora Roberts, Mary Higgins Clark, Sue Grafton, Patricia Cornwell, James Patterson, Nelson DeMille, Robert Ludlum…
The latest edition of The Lovecraft Annual includes the best new Lovecraftian scholarship. Table of Contents: Lovecraft and the Ray-Gun…………T. R. Livesey; What Is the Unnamable ? H. P. Lovecraft…
The definitive critical guide to the life and works of H.P. Lovecraft, the premier writer of horror fiction in the first half of the 20th century, written by the world’s…
It is well known that H. P. Lovecraft was virtually ignored by the mainstream literary community in his time, being known only in the tiny worlds of amateur journalism and…
When 22-year-old Alison Mannering returns to her home in northeastern Pennsylvania after college, she finds a troubling situation. Her father, Guy Mannering, a longtime coal miner, has died recently under…
Examined by the leading critic of supernatural literature through detailed examinations of five ‘founding fathers’ of the genre: Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood, M R James, and H P…
S. T. Joshi has established himself as a leading critic and scholar of the weird tale. Having begun by studying the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Joshi has expanded his…
The most exhaustive and comprehensive bibliography of the writings of H. L. Mencken ever assembled, this volume presents detailed information on Mencken’s book publications from 1903 to the present. It…
In The Collected Drama of H. L. Mencken: Plays and Criticism, S. T. Joshi has assembled for the first time Mencken’s dramatic works, comprising six one-act plays and the lengthy…
Table of Contents:Dispatches from the Providence Observatory: Astronomical Motifs and Sources in the Writings of H. P. Lovecraft……T. R. LiveseyThe Sickness unto Death in H. P. Lovecraft’s The…
Volume 6 in the successful and critically acclaimed series of Lovecraftian horror anthologies by the most prominent acolytes of the horror master.
This fifteenth issue of The Lovecraft Annual features cutting-edge scholarship on the life, work, and thought of H. P. Lovecraft. Among the biographical articles, we find Horace A. Smith examining…
This year’s bountiful issue of The Lovecraft Annual features a trio of articles on the Eddy family. David Haden writes an authoritative article on Lovecraft’s relations with the bookseller Arthur…
An exhaustive work covering the full range of topics relating to vampires, including literature, film and television, and folklore. Encyclopedia of the Vampire: The Living Dead in Myth, Legend, and…
Noted Lovecraftian scholar Joshi details the works of classic Mythos authors and reviews some of the more modern authors who have taken up the Lovecraftian mantle.
