Hippocampus Press - New Titles 2012

[hopfrog]

Have y'all seen the new books forthcoming or just recently publish'd by Hippocampus Press? GREAT YUGGOTH! I'm still in a state of ecstasy over A MONSTER OF VOICES by Robert H. Waugh, whom I consider the finest Lovecraft scholar of all time. H. P. Lovecraft's LETTERS TO JAMES F. MORTON weighs in at over 470 pages, and it is simply fascinating. Nothing shews the real Lovecraft as do his letters. Peter Cannon's amazing FOREVER AZATHOTH has been published in trade pb, in an expanded edition that includes the majority of Peter's pastiches and parodies. Peter's stories as shake-bone funny, but they are also Lovecraftian to the core and utterly delightful. S. T. Joshi has expanded his ANNOTATED SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE from 174 pages to 228, updating much material. He has also expanded a revised edition of LOVECRAFT'S LIBRARY: A CATALOG. PORTRAITS OF RUIN offers yet another selection of the intense and brutally beautiful weird fiction of Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., and THE NEMESIS OF NIGHT is a new Mythos novel by Adam Niswander. Hippocampus Press is one of two publioshers to win awards that will be presented next month at this year's World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City--an event I have to miss, alas. Derrick and S. T. are among other wonderful presses, such as Centipede Press, Arcane Wisdom Press and Miskatonic River Press, that are making this the absolutely greatest time to be a Lovecraftian! Ia!!!!

[Badger]

Peter Cannon's amazing FOREVER AZATHOTH has been published in trade pb, in an expanded edition that includes the majority of Peter's pastiches and parodies. Peter's stories as shake-bone funny, but they are also Lovecraftian to the core and utterly delightful.

Could this mean that we can look forward to more "Scream For Jeeves"??

-=b

[hopfrog]

Could this mean that we can look forward to more "Scream For Jeeves"??

-=b

I last saw Peter at MythosCon, and although he is preparing the republication of older works, I don't think he plans on doing any new writing. His time is taken up with being husband, father, &c.

[Ningauble]

Let's not forget the other Hippocampus Press titles that we know will appear this year: Dreams of Fear, an anthology of supernatural poetry edited by Joshi & Mariconda; the correspondence of Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, in two volumes; and the complete poetry of George Sterling, in three volumes.

[hopfrog]

The cover layout for my new book has been finalized and it looks great. At the Hippocampus Press website the colour reproductions of the book's interior art (which will be printed in black and white) may be seen. I know I'm spamming, but I am so proud of this new book that I cannot help myself. As readers we have entered the best time ever to be Lovecraftians -- but this is equally true for those of us who write Mythos fiction. When I began writing, being a Lovecraftian author was something many publishers rather smirked at. Our main outlet for seeing our work published were the small press magazines, of which there were once so many. But now we have many publishers, small press and not so small, who want to bring out new anthologies of "Cthulhu" stories. I have just had a story chosen to be reprinted at the end of this year in THE BOOK OF CTHULHU II (Night Shade Books) and I am working on a wee yarn for a forthcoming anthology edited by Jason V Brock--my tale being a sequel to H. P. Lovecraft's "The Unnamable" that also has bits of influence from Robert Bloch's "The Mannikin." And I continue to hear from editors and publishers who want stories from me, and they seem to expect that I will write them tales of Lovecraftian horror. And then we have Hippocampus Press, who has as its main editor S. T. Joshi, the world's foremost Lovecraft scholar who is now editing book after book of Lovecraftian weird fiction and has penned his own novel (feautring young H. P. Lovecraft as its main character) that evokes the Mythos. We have entered an eldritch Renaissance.

[Ningauble]

The cover layout for my new book has been finalized and it looks great. At the Hippocampus Press website the colour reproductions of the book's interior art (which will be printed in black and white) may be seen. I know I'm spamming, but I am so proud of this new book that I cannot help myself. As readers we have entered the best time ever to be Lovecraftians -- but this is equally true for those of us who write Mythos fiction. When I began writing, being a Lovecraftian author was something many publishers rather smirked at. Our main outlet for seeing our work published were the small press magazines, of which there were once so many. But now we have many publishers, small press and not so small, who want to bring out new anthologies of "Cthulhu" stories. I have just had a story chosen to be reprinted at the end of this year in THE BOOK OF CTHULHU II (Night Shade Books) and I am working on a wee yarn for a forthcoming anthology edited by Jason V Brock--my tale being a sequel to H. P. Lovecraft's "The Unnamable" that also has bits of influence from Robert Bloch's "The Mannikin." And I continue to hear from editors and publishers who want stories from me, and they seem to expect that I will write them tales of Lovecraftian horror. And then we have Hippocampus Press, who has as its main editor S. T. Joshi, the world's foremost Lovecraft scholar who is now editing book after book of Lovecraftian weird fiction and has penned his own novel (feautring young H. P. Lovecraft as its main character) that evokes the Mythos. We have entered an eldritch Renaissance.

I don't think you are spamming at all, Wilum. This book is a must-have.
And yes, it is a good time to be a Lovecraftian. When I started getting into Lovecraft collection and scholarship 20 years ago, I could never dream that we would one day have all of Lovecraft's essays in print -- and so many of his letters -- not to mention such excellent biographies and literary studies.

[Paddurz]

I don't think you are spamming at all, Wilum. This book is a must-have.
And yes, it is a good time to be a Lovecraftian. When I started getting into Lovecraft collection and scholarship 20 years ago, I could never dream that we would one day have all of Lovecraft's essays in print -- and so many of his letters -- not to mention such excellent biographies and literary studies.

I must agree with Ningauble, this sure sounds like a must-have. Your book "The Tangled Muse" was a delight to read and this sounds like an even greater read. Very much looking forward to it. Glad to note as well that you seem to be feeling better.