JOURNAL OF THE H.P. LOVECRAFT SOCIETY

Published by H.P. Lovecraft Society, South Heights PA, 1979.
Softcover, stapled pictorial wraps, unpaginated.
Original publication price for singlue issue: $2.50.
Journal of the H.P. Lovecraft Society, No. 2
edited by Scott Connors

Lovecraft: Tangential

GOTHIC (CRAWFORD) V1#1,2 V2#1 3 ISSUES MOSIG: LOVECRAFT

A scholarly magazine relying strongly on critical articles analysing all aspects of gothic/weird fiction: published twice yearly with no covers or interior art'' ( Monthly Terrors, Parnell & Ashley, pp. 118) all three in FINE CONDITION

Volume 1, Number 1 (June 1979) Pamela J. Shelden and Kurt Paul Daylight Nightmares / David Sutton The Dead Field / Mark M. Hennelly, Jr. Stevensons’s "Silernt Symbols" of the “Fatal Cross Roads"' in Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde / Robert Keefe Entombed / Dirk W, Mosig Lovecraft: The Dissonance Factor in lmaglnatlve Literature / Ardath Mayhar Oregon Gothic / Donald R. Burleson, John Mclnnis Two Views of St. Armand's Lovecraft / Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV Best-Selling Horror / Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV The Engllsh Ghost Story

Volumc 1, Number 2 (December 1979) / Galad Eiflandsson I'he Exile / Syndy Mcmillen Conger Faith and Doubt in The Castle Of Otranto / John Bovey The Fifth Door / The 1978 Bibliography of Gothic Studies / Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV Horror by the Bucket-and the Fingerbowl / Bette B. Roberts Romantic Gothicism / Mark M. Hennely, Jr. 'l'he Cult of th Occult /

Volume 2, Number 1 (June 1980) / Jean Muno, Karl Kim Connell The Voice of Blood / Paul Lewis Beyond Mystery: Emergence from Delusion as a Pattern in Gothic Eiction / Lee Weinstein The Lady in Darkness / Phillip C. Heath The Narrow House / Roberta Ventsias Party, Last Tuesday/ Kent Ljungquist Two-Thirds of Ketterer's Trilogy / John A. Stoler A Recent Gothic Study / Mark M. Hennelly, Jr. Dark World Enough and Time / William E. Coleman ` The Modern Weird Tale And the Gothic Tradition/

1979: Barlow Articlebarl

Journal of the H.P. Lovecraft Soceity #1.2 (October 1979)
Edited by Scott Connors
36 pages
Contents:
* cover photos of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Robert Howard Barlow
* comprised of one long article on R.H. Barlow by Kenneth Faig Jr., with many photos

Science versus Charlatanry (1979)

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Kind of a different book. This tends to show the energy Mr. Joshi was putting into scholarly and reference work for Lovecraft in the late 1970's and onward.
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Science versus Charlatanry
Essays on Astrology by H.P. Lovecraft & J.F. Hartmann
edited by S.T. Joshi & Scott Connors
The Strange Co.

Science versus Charlatanry: edited by S.T. Joshi & Scott Connors. The Strange Co., 1979, Paperback, 53 pages. Limited to 200 copies, this is copy 119. UNREAD, clean covers & pages, very tight square binding, no previous owner bookplates or signatures. Contains essays on astrology by H.P. Lovecraft & J.F. Hartmann (see list below). Scarce.

“Recently a quack named Hartmann, a devotee of the pseudo-science of Astrology, commenced to disseminate the usual pernicious fallacies of that occult art through the columns of The News, so that in the interest of true Astronomy I was forced into a campaign of invective and satire. I began seriously, with Science versus Charlatanry, which I followed up with The Falsity of Astrology, but eventually the stupid persistence of the modern Nostradamus forced me to adopt ridicule as my weapon. I thereupon went back to my beloved age of Queen Anne for a precedent, and decided to emulate Dean Swift’s famous attacks on the astrologer Partridge, conducted under the nom de plume of Isaac Bickerstaffe (or Bickerstaff—I have seen it spelled both ways). Accordingly I published a satirical article wherein I gave with an air of solemn gravity the most nonsensical collection of wild prophecies that my brain could conceive; the whole entitled Astrology and the Future, and signed ‘Isaac Bickerstaffe, Jr.’ I there ‘predicted’ the end of the world by an explosion of internal gases in the year 4954. Hartmann scarce knew whether or not to take me seriously, and kept up his mountebank performances, so I prepared another Bickerstaffe paper whose ridicule should become more open toward the end. In this final effort, Delavan’s Comet and Astrology, I explained how the human race shall be preserved after the destruction of the earth, by transportation to the planet Venus! Even the obtuse intellect of the charlatan must have discovered the sarcastic nature of this ponderous prophecy, for he has now quietly ceased to inflict his false notions on a gullible public.” (to Maurice W. Moe, 8 December 1914)

Science versus Charlatanry includes:
Introduction - Scott Connors & S.T. Joshi
Astrology and the European War - J.F. Hartmann
Science versus Charlantanry - H.P. Lovecraft
(Letter to the Editor) - J.F. Hartmann
The Falsity of Astrology - H.P. Lovecraft
Astrology and the Future - Isaac Bickerstaffe, Jr.
The Science of Astrology - J.F. Hartmann
Delavan's Comet and Astrology - Isaac Bickerstaffe, Jr.
A Defense of Astrology -J.F. Hartmann
The Fall of Astrology - H.P. Lovecraft
(Isaac Bickerstaffe's reply) - Isaac Bickerstaffe, Jr.

JOURNAL OF THE H. P. LOVECRAFT SOCIETY (1979)

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While this is named for HPL, this particular issue was devoted to Barlow. At this time, Lovecraft had been dead over 40 years, and the late 1970's became a sort of renaissance for understanding the legends and perspectives of Lovecraft, his time, and his circle of friends and colleagues.
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JOURNAL OF THE H. P. LOVECRAFT SOCIETY. 1979 (number 2). // Richmond, CA: H. P. Lovecraft Society, 1979 (number 2) Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. The whole of this issue comprises "R. H. Barlow," a illustrated biography by Kenneth Faig, Jr.

Lovecraftian Novel (1979)

In July 1979, Donald Grant announced a new cloth bound book based on Lovecraft. So, we see that at 42 years after Lovecraft's death that fan fiction has focused on Lovecraft as a character rather as the producer of stories. The book commemorates Providence, RI as the host of the 1st World Fantasy Convention (1975). It includes a forgotten Lovecraft manuscript and a hidden underground Providence with sinsiter goings on. The now-legendary Kirby McCauley is also a character, as is Robert Booth then-chariman of the 1979 World Horror Convention.

The blurb says that the sale price of the 112 page book was $10 of 1,125 copies. 240 special slip-case editions offered at $20.

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Marvel Tales 1934

It seems in Lovecraftian antiquarianism, even someone who writes something about Lovecraft also becomes part of that unending chain of Lovecraft's Legacy. Thus a 1979 letter attached to a 1934 magazine with Lovecraft's handwiritng in it. Still, $2500 is a bit steep for my blood. -Chrispy.




Seller's description: Title: Marvel Tales, Vol. I, No. 1, with Edits in Lovecraft's Hand. // Author: LOVECRAFT, H.P. /// Everett, PA: Fantasy Publications, May, 1934. First edition, Twelvemo, Pale blue pictorial wrappers with black print, stapled. // From one of the greatest science fiction / horror fanzines with an impressive list of contributors, this inaugural issue of "Marvel Tales" features stories by H.P. Lovecraft, Lloyd Eshbach, August Derleth, Natalie Wooley, and David H. Keller. // Wrappers are chipped and split along edges where it overhangs the textblock; corners are worn; pamphlet is partially split at spine. Textblock is age toned and leaves are a bit brittle but completely intact. // Several small corrections have been accomplished in black throughout Celephaïs, H.P. Lovecraft's story in this issue, which have been attributed to Lovecraft himself, supported by a 1979 letter [included] from John H. Stanley of the Brown University Library, affirming his belief that these are indeed Lovecraft's own corrections. The letter is typed on Brown University Library stationary and bears some age-toning and stains along the upper and lower edges.

Vintage 1979 Ad for The Cthulhu Mythos"

Lovecraft's Legacy: 1979 (Fantasy Mongers)

Fantasy Mongers #2 published in 1979 by W. Paul Ganley. This magazine contains infomation on Fantasy and science fiction writers, books, pulp digests, checklists, short stories, and lots more hard to find information. These are great for collectors, fans, and researchers of rare science fiction / fantasy. This rare fanzine is staple bound and paper wrapped.
Contents Include:
Incident at Nor-Um-Bega by H. Warner Munn
Fool-Con II report
That Which Brings Death by Nick Carr
Graveyard Walking and Gravewatching by John Dinan, about Lovecraft gravewatchers.
Front Cover by C. Pelletiere
Back cover by Victoria Poyser
artwork by J.K. Potter
Lovecraft advertisementThis issue is in nice shape. There are some lite creases on front and back covers. Very lite edge and corner wear. Excellent interior!Don't miss out on this highly collectible rare fanzine!!

Lovecraft's Legacy: 1979 - Whispers # 13 & 14

WHISPERS Magazine double issue 13-14, edited and published by Stuart David Schiff, in 1979. 128 pages.FRITZ LEIBER TRIBUTE ISSUEThis legendary fantasy and horror magazine pays tribute to the creator of Fahfrd and The Gray Mouser and other legendary fantasies in a giant double issue with contributions from a fine assortment of writers and artists (see scan of contents page), including a piece by Leiber himself, a great folio by Steve Fabian, and much more.It also contains the long awaited conclusion of H. Warner Munn's "HPL: A Reminiscence," which includes a photograph of Lovecraft furnished by Munn. Whispers is one of the greatest small-press publication of all time, and this is an exceptional issue.

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Lovecraft's Legacy: 1979

This rare ephemera has a few interesting historical points 42 years after Lovecraft's death.

FANTASY MONGERS, (ed. Paul Ganley): Fantasy Mongers #1. Weirdbook Press: NY. 1979. First edition. Stapled wraps. A separate small-press fantasy magazine from the editor of Weirdbook, mostly issued as a place for genre booksellers to sell (or at least advertise) their books - this 32 page first issue does include both front and back cover artwork by J. K. Potter, an interview with Robert Bloch, and a short Lovecraftian piece by L. Sprague de Camp ("H. P. Lovecraft And Edmund Wilson"). The item shown is declared to be in NF/Fine copy.