مجموعهٔ انسی‌کلوبیایی

Years in preparation, this massive assemblage of Lovecraftiana is organized into nine sections, each preceded by editor S.T. Joshi's illuminating commentary: Dreams and Fancies, The Weird Fantasist, Mechanistic Materialist, Literary Critic, Political Theorist, Antiquarian Travels, Amateur Journalist, Epistolarian, and Personal. The individual works by Lovecraft -- over eighty in number -- are too numerous to be listed here, but include such central statements as the "Commonplace Book, " "History of the Necronomicon, " "Notes on Writing Weird Fiction, " "The Materialist Today, " "Observations on Several Parts of America, " "Some Notes on a Nonentity, " "Cats and Dogs, " and much, much more. A collection of the lesser-known short works of the most significant American horror writer between Poe and Stephen King. Includes correspondence, juvenilia, literary criticism, philosophical speculation, and eccentric travelogues, plus comments on his own creative aesthetic. Introductory notes to each section reveal the breadth of Lovecraft's intellectual curiosity and the gradual process of overcoming such self-imposed handicaps as dogmatism, racism, and intolerance