25. HPL to Helen V. Sully, 28 October 1934 (SL V.50). Chapter Twenty
1. HPL to R. H. Barlow, [24–29 May 1935] (ms., JHL).
2. HPL to Donald and Howard Wandrei, [July 1935] (postcard) (ms., JHL).
3. HPL to August Derleth, 19 August 1935 (ms., SHSW).
4. See Will Murray’s interview, ‘Julius Schwartz on Lovecraft’, Crypt of Cthulhu No. 76 (Hallowmass 1990): 14–18.
5. HPL to J. Vernon Shea, 5 December 1935 (SL V.210).
6. Weird Tales 36, No. 5 (November 1935): 652.
7. Sterling, ‘Caverns Measureless to Man’, pp. 375–76.
8. HPL to R. H. Barlow, 11 March 1936 (ms., JHL).
9. The untitled diary is in JHL.
10. HPL to R. H. Barlow, 4 June 1936 (ms., JHL).
11. Ibid.
12. Robert E. Howard, Selected Letters 1931–1936 (West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1991), p. 79.
13. HPL to E. Hoffmann Price, 20 June 1936 (SL V.272–73). 14. HPL to R. H. Barlow, 23 July 1936 (ms., JHL).
15. HPL to Anne Tillery Renshaw, 24 February 1936 (ms., JHL). 16. HPL to R. H. Barlow, 11 December 1936 (ms., JHL).
17. Fritz Leiber, ‘Through Hyperspace with Brown Jenkin’, p.170. 18. Fritz Leiber, ‘My Correspondence with Lovecraft’ (1958), in Lovecraft Remembered, p. 301.
19. HPL to Donald Wandrei, 8 November 1936 (ms., JHL). 20. HPL to Farnsworth Wright, 1 July 1936 (SL V.274).
21. HPL to E. Hoffmann Price, [12 February 1936] (SL V.223–24). 22. HPL to August Derleth, 17 February 1937 (SL V.412). 23. HPL to Wilfred B. Talman, 28 February 1937 (SL V.419). 24. ‘The Last Days of H. P. Lovecraft: Four Documents’, Lovecraft Studies No. 28 (spring 1993): 36.
25. Willis Conover, Lovecraft at Last (Arlington, VA: Carrollton-Clark, 1975), p. 245.
26. HPL to Duane W. Rimel, 8 October 1934 (ms., JHL).
27. Thomas J. Slaga, ‘Food Additives and Contaminants as Modifying Factors in Cancer Induction’, in Nutrition and Cancer: Etiology and Treatment, ed. Guy R. Newell and Neil M. Ellison (New York: Raven Press, 1981), pp. 279–80.
28. Stewart Cameron, Kidney Disease: The Facts, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), ch. 8.
29. See John Bligh, Temperature Regulation in Mammals and Other Vertebrates (Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Co., 1973). 30. See, in general, R. Alain Everts, The Death of a Gentleman: The Last Days of Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Madison, WI: Strange Co., 1987). The ‘death diary’ is transcribed on pp. 25–28.
31. ‘The Last Days of H. P. Lovecraft’, p. 36.
32. ‘An Interview with Harry K. Brobst’, p. 32.
33. ‘The Last Days of H. P. Lovecraft’, p. 36.
34. Ibid. Epilogue
1. Smith, Selected Poems (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1971), pp. 287– 88.
CHAPTER THREE
Index
Account in Verse …, An, see ‘H. Lovecraft’s Attempted Journey …’
‘Account of Charleston, An’ 285, 289, 370
Acids 29
Ackerman, Forrest J 333, 370
‘Ad Criticos’ 75, 99
Addison, Joseph 108
‘Adept’s Gambit’ (Leiber) 381
Adventure 205
Aeneid (Virgil) 22
Age of Fable, The (Bulfinch) 20, 22, 23
Aiken, Conrad 178–9
Akley, Bert G. 271, 290
‘Alchemist, The’ 56–7, 58, 70, 106
Alden, Abner 22
Alfredo: A Tragedy 118–19, 322
Alhazred, Abdul 17–18, 140
‘Alienation’ 282
Allgood, Helen 1
Allgood, Sarah 1
All-Story Cavalier 73–4
All-Story Weekly 72–3
Alouette, L’ 150, 265
Amateur Correspondent 381
‘Amateur Criticism’ 83
amateur journalism 76, 77–87, 112–14, 119, 126–8, 145–6, 163–4, 204
‘Amateur Journalism: Its Possible Needs and Betterment’ 113, 127
Amazing Stories 256–7, 381
‘Ambrose Bierce as He Really Was’ (de Castro) 265
American Book-Prices Current 157
American Mercury 226
American Parade 265
‘American to Mother England, An’ 95
‘American to the British Flag, An’ 95
‘Americanism’ 111
‘Amissa Minerva’ 92
‘Ancient Sorceries’ (Blackwood) 306
‘Ancient Track, The’ 280
Anderson, Sherwood 139, 362
Antarctic Atlas 38, 39
Anthology of Magazine Verse (Braithwaite) 129
Appleton, John Howard 28
Arabian Nights 17–18, 24, 25, 28, 144 Argonauts, The 87
Argosy 73–6, 257
Argosy All-Story Weekly 171
Arkham House 338, 390–1, 392
‘Ashes’ (Lovecraft-Eddy) 173
Asheville Gazette-News 88–9, 384
Astounding Stories 338, 367–8, 372–4, 381, 383
‘Astronomical Observations …’ 65
Astronomy 41
At the Mountains of Madness 300–3, 307, 313, 316, 332, 344, 357–8, 367, 372–4, 381, 382, 383
Athol Transcript 107
Birth of a Nation, The (film) 97–8
Bishop, Zealia Brown Reed 267–8, 270, 283–4, 286–7, 292, 316, 323, 325
Black, Hugo 350
Black Beetles in Amber (Bierce) 265
Black Cat 73, 167
Black Mask 167
Blackstone Military Band 45, 52
Blackwood, Algernon 136, 169, 228–9, 230, 257, 274, 306, 377
Blake, Mrs 49
Blake, William 177
Blish, James 380
Bloch, Robert 336, 341, 368, 379
Blue Pencil Club 204, 208, 213
Boaz, Franz 359
‘Boiling Point, The’ 333
Bolingbroke, Henry St John, Viscount 160
‘Bolshevism’ 111
Book of Wonder, The (Dunsany) 137
Borchgrevink, Carsten Egeberg 38
Boston Transcript 129
‘Bothon’ (Whitehead) 326
Bradofsky, Hyman 342, 374–5
Brady, Old King 27
‘Brain in the Jar, The’ (Searight) 336
Braithwaite, William Stanley 129
Brandt, C. A. 257