{"id":13396,"date":"2014-10-02T06:30:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T03:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=13396"},"modified":"2022-04-24T17:16:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T17:16:10","slug":"lovecraft-in-historical-context-fifth-collection-shipping-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/10\/02\/lovecraft-in-historical-context-fifth-collection-shipping-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft in Historical Context: fifth collection – shipping now"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m pleased to say that my new book is now shipping. It contains revised, expanded, and footnoted versions of my recent Tentaclii<\/em> essays. Some of the new discoveries include a macabre Lovecraft revision poem not included in the new edition of The Ancient Track<\/em>; a probable new photo of Lovecraft at age 9; a major new source for Suydam in “Red Hook”; a disproving of the claim that the Necronomicon<\/em> was inspired by Hawthorne’s Notebooks<\/em>; and a new previously unknown but obvious source for the name Cthulhu.<\/p>\n

Lovecraft in Historical Context: fifth collection<\/a><\/em>.\"cover_front_600px\"<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

80,000 words of new scholarly essays on the author H.P. Lovecraft. 340 pages, as a perfect bound 6″ x 9″ paperback with colour covers. $20. Paypal accepted. <\/p>\n

CONTENTS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

PART ONE: Topographies<\/p>\n

1. The Catskill Mountains<\/p>\n

   \u201cA mighty woodcutter\u201d: on the trail of Bernard Austin Dwyer.
\n   Two poems by Bernard Austin Dwyer, newly discovered.
\n   The annotated \u201cThe Lurking Fear\u201d.<\/p>\n

2. New York City<\/p>\n

   Suydam revealed: a major new source for \u201cThe Horror at Red Hook\u201d.
\n   Reds in New York: an aspect of Lovecraft\u2019s New York circle in the 1930s.
\n   A note on the interior layout of 169 Clinton Street, Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

3. Providence<\/p>\n

   H.P. Lovecraft and his local Public Library.
\n   Found: a new photograph of the young H.P. Lovecraft?
\n   The Ward of 100 Prospect St.
\n   \u2018Ancients and Horribles\u2019: the grotesque parade tradition in Rhode Island.
\n   H.P. Lovecraft and the RISD Museum of Art, Providence
\n   H.P. Lovecraft among the Jews: a snapshot in time.
\n   Electro-quacks of Providence 1: Orville Livingston Leach.
\n   Electro-quacks of Providence 2: Dr. William F. Channing.
\n   H.P. Lovecraft\u2019s star-charts.<\/p>\n

4. Travels and places<\/p>\n

   The location of \u201cJuan Romero\u201d: Area 52.
\n   The Isles of Shoals as a possible inspiration for Devil Reef.
\n   Locating the Sentinel Elm at Athol.
\n   A note on H.P. Lovecraft and Bolton, Mass.
\n   The Boston North End as H.P. Lovecraft saw it.
\n   On the trail to Dark Swamp.<\/p>\n

PART TWO: Ancient secrets<\/p>\n

   The extent of the influence of \u201cThe Horla\u201d on H.P. Lovecraft.
\n   H.P. Lovecraft and Great Zimbabwe<\/a>.
\n   Finding Cthulhu: H.P. Lovecraft and Chthetho.<\/p>\n

PART THREE: Friends and correspondents<\/p>\n

   Allan Grayson of New York: the young poet of Dunedin.
\n   Some new biographical details for Henry S. Whitehead, and four texts:
\n      Whitehead\u2019s early biography, Harvard College Class of 1904 yearbook<\/em>.
\n      Cures Mentally Sick by Prayer (interview), Boston Post<\/em>, 1921.
\n      Editorial Prejudice Against The Occult (article), The Writer<\/em>, 1922.
\n      Henry S. Whitehead (obituary), The Evening Independent<\/em>, 1932.
\n   \u201cHell\u2019s Turned Loose\u201d: a \u2018lost\u2019 Lovecraft revision poem, found.
\n   \u2018… Nor a Lender Be\u2019: H.P. Lovecraft and Ernest La Touche Hancock.
\n   Some new biographical details for Albert August Sandusky.
\n   Some notes on Richard Ely Morse.
\n   A note on Gordon Hatfield, composer and stage director.
\n   A note on Edward Harold Cole.
\n   A note on the H.P. Lovecraft correspondent Albert Chapin.
\n   Samuel Loveman\u2019s late and wayward hand.
\n   Anne Tillery Renshaw (c.1890?-c.1940?).<\/p>\n

PART FOUR: Influence<\/p>\n

   On Lovecraft\u2019s glands.
\n   Did Lovecraft read Moby Dick<\/em>?
\n   Hawthorne\u2019s influence on the genesis of the Necronomicon<\/em>.
\n   Lovecraft\u2019s pocket nuclear device.
\n   A note on Lovecraft and Terence McKenna.<\/p>\n

Book review: Lovecraft and Influence: his predecessors and successors.<\/p>\n

Three additions and corrections for essays from previous volumes.<\/p>\n

POEM: “The Harbour”<\/p>\n

Buy it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m pleased to say that my new book is now shipping. It contains revised, expanded, and footnoted versions of my …<\/p>\n

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