''Miscellaneous Writings'' is a collection of short stories,
essay
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s and
letters
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by author
H. P. Lovecraft. It was released in
1995
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by
Arkham House
Arkham House is an American publishing house specializing in weird fiction. It was founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin, in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to publish hardcover collections of H. P. Lovecraft's best works, which had pr ...
in an edition of 4,959 copies. The volume was originally conceived by
August Derleth
August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and the ...
and ultimately edited by
S.T. Joshi with input from
James Turner.
Contents
''Miscellaneous Writings'' contains the following:
* "Introduction", by
S.T. Joshi
* 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
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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"
** "
Memory
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** "
Nyarlathotep
Nyarlathotep is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft. The character is a malign deity in the Cthulhu Mythos, a shared universe. First appearing in Lovecraft's 1920 prose poem "Nyarlathotep", he was later mentioned in other works by ...
"
** "
Ex Oblivione
"Ex Oblivione" is a prose poem by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in late 1920 or early 1921 and first published in ''The United Amateur'' in March 1921, under the pseudonym Ward Phillips.
Inspiration
''An H. P. Lovecra ...
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** "
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"
** "
The Very Old Folk"
** "History of the Necronomicon"
** "
Ibid"
** Discarded Draft of "
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
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its motif of a malign undersea civilization, and references several shared ...
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** "The Battle That Ended the Century" (with R.H. Barlow)
** "Collapsing Cosmoses" (with R.H. Barlow)
** "The Challenge From Beyond" (with
C.L. Moore
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,
A. Merritt
Abraham Grace Merritt (January 20, 1884 – August 21, 1943) – known by his byline, A. Merritt – was an American Sunday magazine editor and a writer of fantastic fiction.
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted him in 1999, i ...
,
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
Frank Belknap Long (April 27, 1901 – January 3, 1994) was an American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. Though his writing career spanned seven decades, he is best known ...
)
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
''Les Mouches fantastiques'' ( ''The Fantastic Flies'') was a Canadian underground magazine published between 1918 and 1920. Based in Montreal, Quebec, it is the first known LGBT-themed publication in Canadian and North American history.
The maga ...
''"
** "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
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