{"id":13935,"date":"2014-12-17T02:54:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T23:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=13935"},"modified":"2014-12-17T02:54:14","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T23:54:14","slug":"forthcoming-the-bloch-lovecraft-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/12\/17\/forthcoming-the-bloch-lovecraft-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Forthcoming, the Bloch-Lovecraft letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News of a new book of Lovecraft letters, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stjoshi.org\/news.html\">from S.T. Joshi<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>David E. Schultz and I are working hard on getting <em>Lovecraft\u2019s Letters to Robert Bloch<\/em> ready for publication with Hippocampus Press. It will also include letters to Natalie H. Wooley, Robert Nelson, William Frederick Anger, Kenneth Sterling, Donald A. Wollheim, Wilson Shepherd, and Willis Conover. A fat book! This could be published as early as February 2015. After that &mdash; the joint correspondence of Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>* Robert Nelson (1912-1935) isn&#8217;t in <em>The Lovecraft Encyclopaedia<\/em>. But there is information <a href=\"http:\/\/desturmobed.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/07\/robert-nelson.html\">here<\/a>. The blurb for a 2012 book collection of his work, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/search.ep?type=&amp;keyWords=Sable+Revery&amp;x=0&amp;y=0&amp;sitesearch=lulu.com&amp;q=\">Sable Revery: Poems, Sketches and Letters<\/a><\/em>, gives a biographical outline&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Robert Nelson (1912-1935) was a contributor of verse to <em>Weird Tales<\/em> magazine in the mid-1930s, and of verse and prose to fan magazines like <em>The Fantasy Fan<\/em>. He was also a correspondent of H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith. &#8230; Also included [in the book] are five [1930s] letters by H.P. Lovecraft&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>* Natalie Hartley Wooley corresponded 1933\u201337.  She was a poet of the amateur journalism movement, with poetry in <em>The Tryout<\/em> and probably other amateur journals.  She also had poetry and at least one &#8220;straight ghost story&#8221; in <em>The Fantasy Fan<\/em>, plus a lead essay on &#8220;The Adventure Story&#8221; in <em>The Californian<\/em> (Fall 1935) which had an early critical appraisal of a <em>Conan<\/em> story.  Lovecraft&#8217;s letters to her appear to have had much to say on race relations, pungent extracts from which have already been published in <em>Selected Letters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>* Wilson Shepherd was a friend of Wollheim, publishing the forerunner (<em>Fanciful Tales<\/em>?) to <em>The Phantagraph<\/em>.  He corresponded 1936-37, and Lovecraft revised a couple of his poems. He published &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/pdfs\/annotated_necronomicon_6x9.pdf\">A History of the Necronomicon<\/a>&#8221; in pamphlet form in 1937.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News of a new book of Lovecraft letters, from S.T. Joshi&#8230; David E. Schultz and I are working hard on &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2014\/12\/17\/forthcoming-the-bloch-lovecraft-letters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}