New to me, I’m pleased to see that Wildside Press republished Frank Belknap Long’s memoir Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Nightside as an affordable paperback in September 2016. Not only that, but there’s an ebook and a German translation.

Important though the book is, I’ve clearly shown in Lovecraft in Historical Context that Long’s memory over that long distance of time is not to be entirely trusted. His recall needs to be checked against good primary evidence from the period.

Amazon have used paperback copies at around £10 inc. shipping. As usual the new paperback is about 70% more expensive from eBay than from Amazon. Still, even then it’s cheaper than the 1975 Arkham hardback.

No ebook listing on Amazon, but Wildside’s ‘up again, down again, broken images’ website reveals an ebook there priced at a “can’t-afford-it but got-to-have-it” $4.99. Checkout works but regrettably there’s no Paypal, and also uncertainty about if one will have to sign up to the site in order to download one’s purchased book.

I’d never heard of, seen or used, Amazon Pay before. I assume it’s a very lagging competitor to PayPal. But apparently it comes pre-loaded with your Amazon account…

Yet Amazon logged me in with my US rather than UK account, so… fail. Just get the ebook onto the regular Amazon USA and UK, please, guys.