Newly listed on Amazon, Letters to Maurice W. Moe and Others. It weighs in at 630 pages, and is pre-ordering now for shipping “30th September 2018” in paperback. It’s rather costly on Amazon UK at £30 (nearly $40 + shipping). No price listed at Amazon USA, but it’s likely to be slightly cheaper for USA buyers direct from Hippocampus, which currently has the book at an introductory $25 plus shipping. It may even be cheaper for UK buyers to get it via Hippocampus, despite the shipping cost.

The book has the usual annotations from Joshi and Schultz, and in addition to the Moe letters…

“The volume also contains Lovecraft’s extensive correspondence with Bernard Austin Dwyer, a weird fiction fan who engaged in wide-ranging discussions with Lovecraft on such subjects as cosmicism, Lovecraft’s upbringing, and political developments in the 1920s and 1930s. [And includes] a rare weird tale by Dwyer.”

I have a biographical chapter on Dwyer in my latest Lovecraft in Historical Context (#5) book, “”A mighty woodcutter”: on the trail of Bernard Austin Dwyer”. It has lots of new discoveries. Lovecraft corresponded with Dwyer from early 1927, and had with him… “a long and interesting correspondence” that lasted constantly for years. Dwyer was about the only one of the Lovecraft circle whom he felt truly shared his own cosmic outlook…

“It is not every macabre writer who feels poignantly & almost intolerably the pressure of cryptic & unbounded outer space. […] Among the individuals of my acquaintance, it is rarer than hen’s teeth. You [C. A. Smith] have it yourself to a supreme degree, & so have Wandrei & Bernard Dwyer; but I’m hanged if I can carry the list any farther.” (Selected Letters III, page 196)