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I AM PROVIDENCE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF H.P. LOVECRAFT by S.T. Joshi (2 volume limited hardcover set)

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In 1996, S. T. Joshi’s H. P. Lovecraft: A Life was published to universal acclaim. Joyce Carol Oates called it the “definitive” biography, and it won the British Fantasy Award and the Horror Write Sers Association Award. But that 1996 edition was abridged from the manuscript that Joshi wrote in 1993-95; in all, more than 150,000 words were cut for space reasons.

Hippocampus Press is proud to present the complete, uncut edition of Joshi’s biography, I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft. In addition to restoring every word of Joshi’s original manuscript, the entire text has been thoroughly revised and updated in light of the new information on Lovecraft that has emerged since 1996. As such, this book can now truly be said to be the definitive biography of H. P. Lovecraft, written by the world’s leading authority on Lovecraft. Readers will find countless details about Lovecraft’s life and work not included in the earlier edition, along with important updates on new publications by and about Lovecraft in the last 15 years and on Lovecraft’s increasing worldwide reputation. This book constitutes S. T. Joshi’s final word on Lovecraft the man, the writer, and the thinker.

PS PUBLISHING ANNOUNCES NEW IMPRINT. PRE-ORDER HERE!

PS Publishing has a new imprint that they are unveiling at WHC. It is called Stanza Press and it concentrates solely on poetry. They’re strictly limited to just 300 copies of each title and they plan to publish 6 titles a year. They are all hardcovers and they are all realativly inexpensive. We have listed 6 new titles on the Mall.

When the history of fantasy and horror fiction is being discussed, the pulp magazine Weird Tales is inevitably mentioned. Published on low-grade “pulp” paper, Weird Tales was the first newsstand magazine devoted exclusively to weird and fantastic fiction. It ran for 279 issues, from March 1923 to September 1954.

The three most important and influential writers to have their work published in the title were Rhode Island horror writer H.P. Lovecraft; the Texan creator of Conan the Cimmerian, Robert E. Howard; and the California poet, short story writer, illustrator and sculptor, Clark Ashton Smith.

“The Complete Poems from Weird Tales” series collects their verse in the order that it originally appeared in the pages of “The Unique Magazine”.

HALLOWE’EN IN A SUBURB & OTHERS – H.P. LOVECRAFT

“H.P. Lovercraft (1890-1937) is probably the most important and influential author of supernatural fiction in the twentieth century. A life-long resident of Providence, Rhode Island, many of his tales are set in the fear-haunted towns of an imaginary area of Massachusetts, or in the cosmic vistas that exist beyond space and time.”
-Stephen Jones

CONTENTS

Nemesis
To a Dreamer
Yule Horror
The Ancient Track
Recapture
The Courtyard
Star-Winds
Hesperia
Antarktos
The Bells
Nyarlathotep
Azathoth
Mirage
The Elder Pharos
Alienation
To Virgil Finlay, Upon His Drawing for Mr. Bloch’s Tale, ‘The Faceless God’
Psychopompos
The Canal
To Klarkash-Ton, Lord of Averoigne
Where Once Poe Walked
The Messenger
The Wood
The Lamp
Zaman’s Hill
Harbour Whistles
The Howler

NEW LIGOTTI, LOVECRAFT, AND MORE FROM HIPPOCAMPUS!

THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE HUMAN RACE by Thomas Ligotti (limited hardcover edition)

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“The Conspiracy against the Human Race sets out what is perhaps the most sustained challenge yet to the intellectual blackmail that would oblige us to be eternally grateful for a ‘gift’ we never invited.” –From the Foreword by Ray Brassier

“The Conspiracy against the Human Race is renowned horror writer Thomas Ligotti‘s first work of nonfiction. Through impressively wide-ranging discussions of and reflections on literary and philosophical works of a pessimistic bent, he shows that the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination. The worst and most plentiful horrors are instead to be found in reality. Mr. Ligotti’s calm, but often bloodcurdling turns of phrase, evoke the dreadfulness of the human condition. Those who cannot bear the truth will pretend this is another work of fiction, but in doing so they perpetuate the conspiracy of the book’s title.”
–David Benatar,author of Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence; Department of Philosophy, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Thomas Ligotti is one of the foremost authors of supernatural horror literature. In this genre, he has been classed with Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. His works include Songs of a Dead Dreamer, Grimscribe, My Work Is Not Yet Done, and Teatro Grottesco. Ligotti lives in Florida.

Ray Brassier is a member of the philosophy faculty at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. He is the author of Nihil Unbound: Enlightenment and Extinction (Palgrave Macmillan 2007).

Contents

Foreword
Introduction: Of Pessimism and Paradox
The Nightmare of Being
Who Goes There?
Freaks of Salvation
Sick to Death
The Cult of Grinning Martyrs
Autopsy on a Puppet: An Anatomy of the Supernatural
Notes