Miscellaneous Writings

Miscellaneous Writings
Author	H. P. Lovecraft
Cover Artist	James Turner
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Arkham House
Release Date	February 1995
Pages	569

Miscellaneous Writings is a collection of works by Howard Phillips Lovecraft with section introductions by scholar S. T. Joshi. Published by Arkham House in February 1995, a limited run of 4959 copies was printed. It has not been reissued.

Contents

• Editorial Note by S. T. Joshi
• Introduction by S. T. Joshi

Dreams and Fancies

• "The Little Glass Bottle"
• "The Secret Cave, or John Lees Adventure"
• "The Mystery of the Grave-Yard, or "A Dead Man's Revenge": A Detective Story"
• "The Mysterious Ship"
• "A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson"
• "Jupiter, as Seen Near Opposition"
• "Old Bugs: An Extemporaneous Sob Story"
• "Memory"
• "Nyarlathotep"
• "Ex Oblivione"
• "What the Moon Brings"
• "Sweet Ermengarde; or, The Heart of a Country Girl"
• "The Very Old Folk"
• "History of the Necronomicon"
• "Ibid"
• Discarded Draft of The Shadow Over Innsmouth
• "The Battle That Ended a Century: (MS. Found in a Time Machine)" with R. H. Barlow
• "Collapsing Cosmoses" with R. H. Barlow
• "The Challenge from Beyond"

The Weird Fantasist

• Commonplace Book
• "Pickman's Model"
• "Lord Dunsany and His Work"
• "Notes on Writing Weird Fiction"
• "Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction"
• "In Memoriam: Robert Ervin Howard"

Mechanistic Materialist

• "Idealism and Materialism—A Reflection"
• "Life for Humanity's Sake"
• "In Defense of Dagon"
• "Nietzscheism and Realism"
• "The Materialist Today"
• "Some Causes of Self-Immolation: Motives for Voluntary Self-Subjugation to Unpleasant Conditions by Human Beings"
• "Heritage or Modernism: Common Sense in Art Forms"

Literary Critic

• "Metrical Regularity"
• "The Vers Libre Epidemic"
• "The Case for Classicism: A Reply to Prof. Philip B. McDonald"
• "Literary Composition"
• "Ars Gratia Artis"
• "The Poetry of Lilian Middleton"
• "Petit A Petit, L'Oiseau Fait Son Nid!" by Lillian Middleton
• "Rudis Indigestaque Moles"
• "In the Editor's Study"
• "The Professional Incubus"
• "The Omnipresent Philistine"
• "What Belongs in Verse"

Political Theorist

• "The Crime of the Century"
• "More Chain Lightning"
• "Old England and the "Hyphen""
• "Revolutionary Mythology"
• "Americanism"
• "The League"
• "Bolshevism"
• "Some Repetitions on the Times"

Antiquarian Travels

• "Vermont—A First Impression"
• "Observations on Several Parts of America"
• "Travels in the Provinces of America"
• "An Account of Charleston, in His Majty's Province of South-Carolina"
• "Some Dutch Footprints in New England"
• "Homes and Shrines of Poe"

Amateur Journalist

• "In a Major Key"
• "The Dignity of Journalism"
• "Symphony and Stress"
• "United Amateur Press Association: Exponent of Amateur Journalism"
• "A Reply to The Lingerer"
• "Les Mouches Fantastiques"
• "For What Does the United Stand?"
• "Amateur Journalism: Its Possible Needs and Betterment"
• "What Amateurdom and I have Done for Each Other"
• "Lucubrations Lovecraftian"
• "A Matter of Uniteds"
• "Mrs. Miniter—-Estimates and Recollections"
• "Some Current Motives and Practices"

Epistolaria

• "Trans-Neptunian Planets"
• "The Earth Not Hollow"
• "To The All-Story Weekly"
• "Science versus Charlatanry"
• "The Fall of Astrology"
• "To Edwin Baird (May, 1923)"
• "To Edwin Baird (November, 1923)"
• "The Old Brick Row"
• "To Nils H. Frome"

Personal

• "The Brief Autobiography of an Inconsequential Scribbler"
• "Within the Gates"
• "A Confession of Unfaith"
• "Commercial Blurbs"
• "Cats and Dogs"
• "Some Notes on a Nonentity"
• Bibliography