S.T. Joshi’s new Horror Fiction Index is published…

a listing of nearly 3,300 single-author horror collections from 1808 to 2010. The print edition is a whopping 741 pages, containing a list of the collections (arranged alphabetically by author, and chronologically within a given author’s books) with their tables of contents, followed by indexes of names, collection titles, and story titles (nearly 30,000 of them).

It’s a ‘story finding-aid’, so far as I’m aware, and thus doesn’t also list prefaces, scholarly notes (or not), etc. Now available in paperback and ebook. I was pleased to be able to supply two of his ‘unknown contents’ listings. Joshi reports than only ten such ‘unknown’ collections remained un-solved by the time the book went to print. Hopefully someone will now pick this up and produce an expanded second edition in due course.

There’s now a full name-listing for the many letters included in the new volumes of Miscellaneous Letters and also Letters to Woodburn Harris and Others.

The German Lovecraftians have proof copies of their forthcoming volume of Lovecraft’s selected poetry, translated and presented in a handsome 300-page edition…

With the publication of the volume of poems Fungi by Yuggoth and Other Poems, some of these verses are now available in German for the first time.

The editor and translator is said to have followed the ‘suggestions for arrangement’ of a poetry volume, from the lists which Lovecraft had set down for Barlow in the 1930s.

The new book is not available yet, but they say “we hope the presses will soon be running at full steam” for this, ready for shipping in spring 2023.

Also, their regular podcast has lost their key editor/uploader due to his work-pressures. They have replacements for now, but let them know if you can offer regular German-speaking help.

Mist and Mystery: Recovered Stories and Essays by Arthur Machen, including his journalistic work described as “forgotten articles”.

WARNING: A printing problem has been discovered, and the publisher now advises… “Please do not purchase the book until the problem is investigated and fixed.”

The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, Volume 3 (1932-1936). According to Amazon this is now published. Which means the Robert E. Howard Foundation Press is to be heartily congratulated, as it now has all three volumes published as affordable paperbacks.

I see there was also a new issue of The Dark Man: Journal of Robert E. Howard and Pulp Studies (12.2), dated December 2021 and available March 2022 on Amazon. Among other items, an article on “Howard and Strange Tales” and a review of the expanded book The Weird Tales Story.

The sumptuous Mnemos edition of Lovecraft’s Horror Tales is soon to publish in France. Amazon lists it as 25th November 2022.

It appears this will complete their new multi-volume translation of the main fiction. Still to come is ‘Essays, correspondence, poetry, revisions’ and finally ‘About Lovecraft’ (although that may be a mis-translation for ‘The Lovecraft Circle’?).