15 títulos para "Hippocampus Press"

The Assassination of Ambrose Bierce

Swaim, Don

Like Carlos Fuentes's The Old Gringo, this absorbing novel...tracks Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) south of the border as the American journalist and short story writer journeys with Pancho Villa into the maelstrom of the Mexican Revolution... Fans of Bierce's writing should enjoy this semibiographical...

The Lay of Old Hex

Bolivar, Adam

The ballad is one of the most ancient forms of poetic expression, and it has been used for the expression of weirdness and terror at least since the days of Sir Walter Scott. In recent years, the accomplished weird poet Adam Bolivar has lent new vitality and piquancy to this venerable literary mode....

Johnson Looked Back

Burke,Thomas

This volume presents the weird fiction of the British writer Thomas Burke (1886–1945), author of the scintillating horror collection Night-Pieces (1935). But Burke—celebrated for his evocative tales of London’s Chinatown, gathered in Limehouse Nights and other volumes—wrote o...

Lovecrafts Library

STJoshi/S. T. Joshi

H. P. Lovecraft was one of the most well-read authors of his time, and his personal library constitutes an intimate glimpse into his mind and imagination. This fourth revised edition provides comprehensive information on 1085 books owned by Lovecraft.These books focus chiefly on four key areas that...

The Lady Who Came to Stay & the Elixir of Life (Lovecraft's Library)

Spencer, R. E. / Ransome, Arthur

The Evolution of the Weird Tale

STJoshi

S. T. Joshi is one of the premier critics of supernatural fiction. His pioneering research on H. P. Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, Ambrose Bierce, and other writers has set a standard of scholarship that few have equaled. In The Evolution of the Weird Tale--an informal follow-up to his earlier studies, Th...

A Means to Freedom

HPLovecraft/Robert EHoward/H. P. Lovecraft/Robert E. Howard

H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard are two of the titans of weird fiction of their era. Dominating the pages of <i>Weird Tales</i> in the 1920s and 1930s, they have gained worldwide followings for their compelling writings and also for the very different lives they led. The two writers...

A Means to Freedom

HPLovecraft/Robert EHoward/H. P. Lovecraft/Robert E. Howard

In the second volume of the letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, the two authors continue their wide-ranging discussion of such central issues as the relative value of barbarism and civilization, the virtues of the frontier and of settled city life, and other related issues. Lovecraft re...

I Am Providence

S. T. Joshi

As the second volume of S. T. Joshi's comprehensive biography of H. P. Lovecraft begins, we find Lovecraft dwelling in misery in a one-room apartment in Brooklyn Heights: his wife, Sonia, has had to move to the Midwest for work, and he must rely on the companionship of the Kalem Club, the informal b...

Spectral Realms No. 8

Joshi, S. T.

This eighth issue of Spectral Realms features a diverse array of poetry from the pens of such acclaimed poets as Adam Bolivar, Ashley Dioses, K. A. Opperman, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Ann K. Schwader, John Shirley, and Richard L. Tierney. Wade German contributes a cycle of four evocative poems, &ldq...

Collected Essays 5

HPLovecraft

Fungi from Yuggoth

HPLovecraft

H. P. Lovecrafts Fungi from Yuggoth is a remarkable achievement. Written in little more than a week (December 27, 1929-January 4, 1930), the cycle of 36 sonnets is a compact encapsulation of the essence of Lovecrafts imaginative vision. Its central motifs-the lure of hidden worlds, cosmic alienation...