Discovering H. P. Lovecraft is a collection of non-fiction works compiled and edited by Darrell Schweitzer.
Overview[]
Consisting of eighteen works - including several from those who actually knew him and one from H. P. Lovecraft himself - and running to 172 pages, Discovering H. P. Lovecraft was compiled and edited by Darrell Schweitzer, and published by Wildside Press in August 2001.
The majority of the included pieces were previously collected in Schweitzer's 1976 anthology Essays Lovecraftian.
Contents[]
- "Notes on an Entity", by Robert Bloch
- "When the Stars Are Right", by Richard L. Tierney
- "The Four Faces of the Outsider", by Dirk W. Mosig
- "The First Lewis Theobald", by R. Boerem
- "Lovecraft and Lord Dunsany", by Darrell Schweitzer
- "Some Thoughts on Lovecraft", by Arthur Jean Cox
- "The Derleth Mythos". by Richard L. Tierney
- "Genesis of the Cthulhu Mythos", by George T. Wetzel
- "Lovecraft's Ladies", by Ben P. Indick
- "H. P. Lovecraft and Pseudomathematics", by Robert Weinberg
- "A Literary Copernicus", by Fritz Leiber
- "Textual Problems in Lovecraft: A Preliminary Survey", by S. T. Joshi
- "Story-Writing: A Letter from H. P. Lovecraft", by H. P. Lovecraft
- "Introduction (Discovering H. P. Lovecraft)", by Darrell Schweitzer
- "Character Gullibility in Weird Fiction", by Darrell Schweitzer
- "H. P. Lovecraft: The Books", by Lin Carter
- "H. P. Lovecraft: A Basic Reading List", by Darrell Schweitzer