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Rhode Island on Lovecraft

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Illustrator
  
Betty Wells Halladay

Publication date
  
1945

Pages
  
26 pp

Publisher
  
Grant-Hadley Enterprises

Country
  
United States of America

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (paperback)

Originally published
  
1945

Subject
  
Memoir

OCLC
  
2963954

Author
  
edited by Donald M. Grant and Thomas G. Hadley

Rhode Island on Lovecraft is a 26-page collection of memoirs about H. P. Lovecraft and is edited by Donald M. Grant and Thomas G. Hadley. The memoirs were written by those who had lived in Providence, Rhode Island with Lovecraft. It was released in 1945 by Grant-Hadley Enterprises in an edition of 500 copies. Grant Hadley reprinted the collection in December 1945 in an edition of 1,000 copies (this reprint has brown wrappers, whereas the true first edition is in green wrappers). Aside from the reprint, it was the only book published by Grant-Hadley.

Contents

  • Foreword, by the editors
  • "Lovecraft as a Poet", by Winfield Townley Scott (note: this first version of Scott's essay was revised as " A Parenthesis on Lovecraft as Poet" and was printed in Scott's Exiles and Fabrications; revised version also reprinted in S.T. Joshi (ed). H.P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1980).
  • "Lovecraft and Benefit Street", by Dorothy C. Walter
  • "Howard Phillips Lovecraft", by Mrs. Muriel E. Eddy
  • "Miscellaneous Impressions", by Marian F. Bonner
  • "A Glimpse of H.P.L.", by Mary V. Dana
  • Marion F. Bonner's surname was incorrectly printed in the publication as 'Barner'.

    The memoir by Walter had a previous publication in booklet form (North Montpelier, VT: W. Paul Cook (Driftwind Press) [1943].

    The memoirs by Bonner, Dana and Walter have been reprinted by Peter Cannon in Lovecraft Remembered (1998).

    References

    Rhode Island on Lovecraft Wikipedia