In February I missed noticing an update of S.T. Joshi’s blog. (The perils of having no RSS feed on one’s blog, hem hem…) His latest post reveals a new expanded edition of Barlow’s Eyes of the God is being prepared, this being the collected works other than the later ethnographic material…
enormously expanded editions of our previous editions of the writings of Loveman (Out of the Immortal Night) and R. H. Barlow’s Eyes of the God … the Barlow book will probably appear late this year or early next.
It’ll be interesting to see how it’s expanded. Has new material been found, I wonder? I see on Amazon that there’s also set to be a reprint of Barlow’s zines The Dragon-Fly and Leaves in collected book form in 2020.
S.T.’s blog also has news on the ever-growing set of annotated volumes of Lovecraft’s letters…
Letters to Alfred Galpin and Others (including letters to Edward H. Cole, Adolphe de Castro, and John T. Dunn) is imminent. Within the next few months we will release the enormous Letters to Family and Family Friends, probably in a two-volume paperback edition of about 600 pages each. This will be one of the most remarkable volumes in the series, containing his complete letters to his aunts, covering his critical New York years (1924–26) but also his extensive travels in the later 1920s. A volume of Letters to Rheinhart Kleiner and Others (also containing letters to Arthur Harris, Winifred V. Jackson, and others) is also in the offing.
Super. I shall have to start saving up $90 or so for the vital Family and Family Friends door-stoppers then, hopefully to arrive here for Autumn/Fall reading.
David E. Schultz wrote the following in the Barlow FB group:
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More Barlow news: Joshi has published an omnibus volume of Barlow’s two magazines, THE DRAGON-FLY & LEAVES, under his own imprint Sarnath Press.
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“Hippocampus Press will be issuing an enlarged second edition of EYES OF THE GOD (2002). New ed. will have more than 2× as many pages, partly because of recasting book in a larger format, but mostly because of the addition of more (non-weird) fiction, a few poems, a generous selection of nonfiction, and an expanded bibliography. It will not include Mesoamerican essays, but a fair amount of transitional writings, as Barlow began to take interest in Mexican anthropology. No date yet, but work assembling the revised book is nearing completion.”