Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0916732819, Paperback)

Collection of critical essays on H.P. Lovecraft, originally published as "Essays Lovecraftian" and completely revised and updated for its 25th anniversary republication. Here are such groundbreaking works as Fritz Leiber's "A Literary Copernicus," whcih first explored Lovecraft's cosmicism, and which, after more than fifty years, remains one of the most lucid critical pieces every written about Lovecraft. Robert Bloch's "Noptes on an Entity" is a touching tribute to the master from a disciple who went on to become a master of horror fiction himself. "The Four Faces of the Outsider" by Dirk Mosig is another seminal essay, exploring one of the great Lovecraft stories in the light of various schools of psychological analysis. Lovecraft himself is present, describing in detail his methods for writing a story. "The Derleth Mythos" by Richard Tierney was revolutionary when it first appeared: The inital attempt to separate the genuinely Lovecraftian concepts of the Cthulhu Muthos from those of later followers.

To the present edition is added an important resource, a reprint of Lin Carter's useful "H.P. Lovecraft: The Books" as revised and annotated by the leading Lovecraft scholars of our day, S.T. Joshi and Robert M. Price. Here and nowhere else is the definitive guide to the imaginary (and not to imaginary) books of the Lovecraft Mythos, from the Nercronomicon to Unausprechlichen Kulten and beyond.