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11. Oscar Wilde, ‘Preface’ to The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). 12. HPL to Clark Ashton Smith, 14 April 1929 (SL II.328). 13. HPL to Richard Ely Morse, 28 July 1932 (ms.).

14. See note 12.

15. Tryout 5, No. 12 (December 1919): 12.

16. HPL to Frank Belknap Long, 3 June 1923 (SL I.234). 17. HPL to Frank Belknap Long, 19 November 1920 (AHT). 18. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 7 March 1920 (SL I.110).

19. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 3 December 1919 (SL I.93). 20. Lord Dunsany, Letter to August Derleth (28 March 1952), quoted in Lovecraft Studies No. 14 (spring 1987): 38.

21. HPL to Edwin Baird, [c. October 1923]; Weird Tales, March 1924. 22. Will Murray, ‘Behind the Mask of Nyarlathotep’, Lovecraft Studies No. 25 (fall 1991): 25–29.

23. Donald R. Burleson, ‘On Lovecraft’s Themes: Touching the Glass’, in An Epicure in the Terrible: A Centennial Anthology of Essays in Honor of H. P. Lovecraft, ed. David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi (Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1991), p.135.

24. HPL to J. Vernon Shea, 19 June 1931 (SL III.379). Chapter Nine

1. Scott, ‘His Own Most Fantastic Creation’, p. 17.

2. HPL to Anne Tillery Renshaw, 1 June 1921 (SL I.133).

3. Faig, Parents, p. 40.

4. HPL to Maurice W. Moe, 5 April 1931 (SL III.370).

5. HPL to Maurice W. Moe, 15 June 1925 (ms., JHL).

6. Rheinhart Kleiner, ‘A Memoir of Lovecraft’, in Lovecraft Remembered, p. 197.

7. Alfred Galpin, ‘Memories of a Friendship’ (1959), in Lovecraft Remembered, p. 170.

8. Davis, Private Life, p. 15.

9. HPL to the Gallomo, 21 August 1921 (AHT).

10. Davis, Private Life, p. 24.

11. HPL to Anne Tillery Renshaw, 14 June 1922 (SL I.185–86).

12. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 29 September 1922 (SL I.199). 13. HPL to Anne Tillery Renshaw, 3 October 1921 (SL I.154). 14. HPL to Frank Belknap Long, 8 October 1921 (SL I.158). 15. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 17 June 1922 (SL I.188).

16. HPL to Samuel Loveman, 17 November [1922]; Letters to Samuel Loveman and Vincent Starrett, pp. 9–10.

17. HPL to Maurice W. Moe, 18 May 1922 (SL I.176).

18. Davis, Private Life, p. 16.

19. SL I.180 (note 17).

20. Davis, Private Life, p. 17.

21. Sonia H. Davis to Winfield Townley Scott, 11 December 1948 (ms., JHL).

22. Davis, Private Life, p. 19.

23. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 9 August 1922 (ms., JHL).

24. Ibid.

25. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 29 September 1922 (SL I.198). 26. HPL to Robert E. Howard, 25–29 March 1933 (SL IV.170). 27. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 11 January 1923 (SL I.204). 28. HPL to James F. Morton, 12 March 1930 (SL III.126–27). 29. HPL to James F. Morton, 19 October 1929 (SL III.31). Chapter Ten

1. HPL to Lillian D. Clark, 27 July 1925 (ms., JHL).

2. HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, 29 April 192[3] (SL I.131). The letter is misdated to 1921 in SL.

3. Davis, Private Life, p. 18.

4. Cole, ‘Ave atque Vale!’ (1940), in Lovecraft Remembered, p. 101.

5. See Robert E. Weinberg, The Weird Tales Story (West Linn, OR: FAX Collector’s Editions, 1977), p. 3.

6. HPL to the Gallomo, [January] 1920 (AHT).

7. HPL to Bernard Austin Dwyer, [1932] (SL IV.4).

8. Steven J. Mariconda, ‘Curious Myths of the Middle Ages and “The Rats in the Walls”’, On the Emergence of ‘Cthulhu’ and Other Observations (West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1995), pp. 53–56.

9. HPL to J. Vernon Shea, 8–22 November 1933 (ms., JHL).

10. HPL to Frank Belknap Long, 8 November 1923 (SL I.259).

11. HPL to Robert E. Howard, 2–5 November 1933 (SL IV.297).

12. Muriel E. Eddy, The Gentleman from Angell Street ([Providence: Privately printed,] 1961), p. 2.

13. HPL to Frank Belknap Long, 7 October 1923 (SL I.254).

14. HPL to James F. Morton, 28 October 1923 (SL I.257).

15. HPL to August Derleth, [1929] (ms., SHSW).

16. ‘In the Editor’s Study’, Conservative, July 1923.

17. T. S. Eliot, ‘The Metaphysical Poets’ (1921), Selected Essays (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1950), p. 248.

18. HPL to Frank Belknap Long, 13 May 1923 (SL I.229). 19. HPL to Frank Belknap Long, 20 February 1924 (SL I.315). 20. HPL to J. Vernon Shea, 24 March 1933 (SL IV.159).

21. Barton L. St Armand and John H. Stanley, ‘H. P. Lovecraft’s Waste Paper: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Draft’, Books at Brown 26 (1978): 40.

22. HPL to Clark Ashton Smith, 17 October 1930 (SL III.195). 23. HPL to Myrta Alice Little, 17 May 1921; Lovecraft Studies No. 26 (Spring 1992): 28.

24. HPL to Clark Ashton Smith, 16 November 1926 (SL II.90). 25. HPL to James F. Morton, 26 May 1923 (SL I.231).