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Library of Lovecraft Mythos in Miskatonic University

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H.P. Lovecraft Wikipedia

Lovecraft Mythos. Forbidden Knowledge.

Tagged: Bibliography

Publishing & reference

Bibliography and editions

A Lovecraft bibliography must identify more than titles. It must distinguish the scope of a collection, the text it reproduces, the names credited, and the dates of composition, publication and revision. Different editions can serve different purposes without containing the same works or supporting the same kinds of research.

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Authors

S. T. Joshi

S. T. Joshi, born in 1958, is a critic, biographer, bibliographer and textual editor whose work has profoundly shaped modern Lovecraft studies. His contributions include corrected fiction, editions of poetry and essays, extensive biography and research into the wider tradition of weird literature. These activities are related, but each establishes a different kind of knowledge about an author and his writings.

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Textual history

Lovecraft’s stories survive through manuscripts, typescripts, magazine printings, collected editions and later editorial reconstruction. These witnesses do not always agree. Textual history explains the differences between the work he drafted, the version an early reader encountered and the text a modern edition prints.

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