''Miscellaneous Writings'' is a collection of short stories,
essays and
letters by author
H. P. Lovecraft. It was released in
1995
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by
Arkham House in an edition of 4,959 copies. The volume was originally conceived by
August Derleth and ultimately edited by
S.T. Joshi
Sunand Tryambak Joshi (born June 22, 1958) is an American literary critic whose work has largely focused on weird and fantastic fiction, especially the life and work of H. P. Lovecraft and associated writers.
Career
His literary criticis ...
with input from
James Turner.
Contents
''Miscellaneous Writings'' contains the following:
* "Introduction", by
S.T. Joshi
Sunand Tryambak Joshi (born June 22, 1958) is an American literary critic whose work has largely focused on weird and fantastic fiction, especially the life and work of H. P. Lovecraft and associated writers.
Career
His literary criticis ...
* I. Dreams and Fancies
** "The Little Glass Bottle"
** "The Secret Cave"
** "The Mystery of the Grave-Yard"
** "The Mysterious Ship"
** "
A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson
"A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson" is a short story written in 1917 by American horror fiction
Horror is a genre of fiction which is intended to frighten, scare, or disgust. Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychologica ...
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** "
Old Bugs
"Old Bugs" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, probably written shortly before July 1919. It was first published in the Arkham House book ''The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces'' (1959).
Plot
With the onset of Pro ...
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** "
Memory"
** "
Nyarlathotep"
** "
Ex Oblivione"
** "
What the Moon Brings
"What the Moon Brings" is a prose poem by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written on June 5, 1922. This story was first published in ''the National Amateur'' in May 1923. It's shorter than most of Lovecraft's other short stories, ...
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** "
Sweet Ermengarde
"Sweet Ermengarde" is a short comic story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft under the pseudonym "Percy Simple". As a comedy it is a curiosity of his early writing, and was probably written between 1919 and 1921; Lovecraft schola ...
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** "
The Very Old Folk
"The Very Old Folk" is the name given by publishers to a story found in the letter sent to Donald Wandrei by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft on 3 November 1927.
Author Frank Belknap Long
Frank Belknap Long (April 27, 1901 – ...
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** "History of the Necronomicon"
** "
Ibid"
** Discarded Draft of "
The Shadow Over Innsmouth"
** "The Battle That Ended the Century" (with R.H. Barlow)
** "Collapsing Cosmoses" (with R.H. Barlow)
** "The Challenge From Beyond" (with
C.L. Moore
Catherine Lucille Moore (January 24, 1911 – April 4, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, who first came to prominence in the 1930s writing as C. L. Moore. She was among the first women to write in the science fiction and ...
,
A. Merritt,
Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906June 11, 1936) was an American writer. He wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subge ...
and
Frank Belknap Long)
nly Lovecraft's contribution to the story* II. The Weird Fantasist
** "Commonplace Book"
** "Lord Dunsany and His Work"
** "Notes on Writing Weird Fiction"
** "Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction"
** "In Memoriam: Robert E. Howard"
* III. Mechanistic Materialist
** "Idealism and Materialism—A Reflection"
** "Life for Humanity's Sake"
** "In Defense of Dagon"
** "Nietzscheism and Realism"
** "The Materialist Today"
** "Some Causes of Self-Immolation"
** "Heritage or Modernism: Common Sense in Art Forms"
* IV. Literary Critic
** "Metrical Regularity"
** "The Vers Libre Epidemic"
** "The Case for Classicism"
** "Literary Composition"
** "Ars Gratia Artis"
** "The Poetry of Lilian Middleton"
** "Rudis Indigestaque Moles"
** "In the Editor's Study"
** "The Professional Incubus"
** "The Omnipresent Philistine"
** "What Belongs in Verse"
* V. Political Theorist
** "The Crime of the Century"
** "More Chain Lightning"
** "Old England and the 'Hyphen'"
** "Revolutionary Mythology"
** "Americanism"
** "The League"
** "Bolshevism"
** "Some Repetitions on the Times"
* VI. Antiquarian Travels
** "Vermont—A First Impression"
** "Observations on Several Parts of America"
** "Travels in the Provinces of America"
** "An Account of Charleston"
** "Some Dutch Footprints in New England"
** "Homes and Shrines of Poe"
* VII. Amateur Journalist
** "In a Major Key"
** "The Dignity of Journalism"
** "Symphony and Stress"
** "United Amateur Press Association: Exponent of Amateur Journalism"
** "A Reply to The ''Lingerer''"
** "''
Les Mouches fantastiques''"
** "For What Does the United Stand?"
** "Amateur Journalism: Its Possible Needs and Betterment"
** "What Amateurdom and I have Done for Each Other"
** "Lucubrations Lovecraftian"
** "A Matter of Uniteds"
** "Mrs. Miniter—-Estimates and Recollections"
** "Some Current Motives and Practices"
* VIII. Epistolarian
** "Trans-Neptunian Planets"
** "The Earth Not Hollow"
** "To The ''All-Story Weekly''"
** "Science versus Charlatanry"
** "The Fall of Astrology"
** "To Edwin Baird"
** "To Edwin Baird"
** "The Old Brick Row"
** "To Nils H. Frome"
* IX. Personal
** "The Brief Autobiography of an Inconsequential Scribbler"
** "Within the Gates"
** "A Confession of Unfaith"
** "Commercial Blurbs"
** "Cats and Dogs"
** "Some Notes on a Nonentity"
* "Bibliography"
References
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1995 short story collections
Short story collections by H. P. Lovecraft
Collections of letters
Essay collections
Arkham House books