The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces is a collection of works by and about the late American author Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
Overview[]
Running to a total of 313 pages, edited by August Derleth, and featuring illustrations by Frank Utpatel, The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces was published in a limited run of 2500 copies by Arkham House in 1959. It has not been reissued.
The book contains a selection of works by Lovecraft - including several juvinilia and "posthumous collaborations" -along with a number of memoirs, reminisces and studies by both those who knew him and other, more contemporary, authors.
Contents[]
- Foreword by August Derleth
- "The Shuttered Room" by August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft
- "The Fisherman of Falcon Point" by August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft
- Editor's Note (Juvenilia and Early Tales) by August Derleth
- "The Little Glass Bottle" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "The Secret Cave, or John Lees Adventure" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "The Mystery of the Grave-Yard, or "A Dead Man's Revenge": A Detective Story" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "The Mysterious Ship" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "The Alchemist" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "Poetry and the Gods" by Anna Helen Crofts and H. P. Lovecraft
- "The Street" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "Old Bugs" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "Idealism and Materialism: A Reflection" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "The Commonplace Book of H. P. Lovecraft" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "Lovecraft in Providence" by Donald Wandrei
- "Lovecraft as Mentor" by August Derleth
- "Out of the Ivory Tower" by Robert Bloch
- "Three Hours with H. P. Lovecraft" by Dorothy C. Walter
- "Memories of a Friendship" by Alfred Galpin
- "Homage to H. P. Lovecraft" by Felix Stefanile
- "Lines to H. P. Lovecraft" by Joseph Payne Brennan
- "H. P. L." by Clark Ashton Smith
- "Revenants" by August Derleth
- "H. P. L." by by Robert H. Barlow
- "Anniversary" by Robert H. Barlow
- "Letter for Last Christmas" by Robert H. Barlow
- "H. P. Lovecraft: The Books" by Lin Carter
- "H. P. Lovecraft: The Gods" by Lin Carter
- "Addendum: Some Observations on the Carter Glossary" by T. G. L. Cockcroft
- "Notes on the Cthulhu Mythos" by George T. Wetzel
- "Lovecraft's First Book" by William L. Crawford
- "Dagon" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "The Strange High House in the Mist" by H. P. Lovecraft
- "The Outsider" by H. P. Lovecraft