A Dreamer & A Visionary; H.P. Lovecraft in His Time

Loveman, Samuel 77, 116–17, 146, 152, 153–4, 156–7, 159, 164, 200, 205, 207– 8, 210, 213, 216, 220, 221, 231, 234, 257, 262, 265–6, 267, 270, 287, 321, 327, 331, 338

Lowell, Amy 93

‘Lucubrations Lovecraftian’ 83

Lucretius 31

Lumley, William 318, 366–7, 370

‘Lurking Fear, The’ 152, 160, 169, 360 Lusitania 94–5

315, 327, 336, 337, 340, 354, 359, 365,

366, 369, 389

Long, Huey P. 353, 354

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 262 ‘Lord Dunsany and His Work’ 175, 252–3,

298

Loring & Mussey 364

Loucks, Donovan K. 172

Lovecraft, Frederick A. 5

Lovecraft, George 1

Lovecraft, H. P.

LIFE AND THOUGHT: ancestry 1–2; and Antarctica 38–9, 300; attempted enlistment 99–101, 120–1; and

astronomy 40–2, 46, 60, 63–4, 65, 69; childhood friends 43–6, 52–3, 69–70; childhood games 36–7; childhood readings 17–19, 20–2, 24, 25–7, 38; and classical antiquity 20–3, 31–2, 39; and clothing 216–18; diet of 214–16, 371–

2; dreams 19–20; employment of 66,

119–20, 148–50, 191–3, 195–200, 212–

3, 231, 247–8, 265–8, 316–17, 378–79; health of 20, 32–3, 62–3, 67, 100–1,

122–4, 384–8; as letter-writer 103–4,

311–12; marriage of 185, 187–91, 194–

5, 200–3, 211–12, 234–40, 276–7; and movies 97–8, 105, 344–5; and music

35–6, 45, 52; philosophy of 130–3,

182–3, 244–5, 293–7; political views

86, 94–5, 110–12, 183–4, 346–58; and racism 54–5, 71–2, 86, 95–8, 220–4,

286, 305–6, 358–63; and railroads 55–

6; relations with father 14–16; relations with mother 17, 33–4, 47, 66–8, 115–

16, 120–2, 125–6, 143–5, 190; religious views 23, 59–60, 131–2; schooling of

37, 40, 43–4, 48–51, 63–4, 66; and sex

29–30, 129, 190–1, 201–2; and suicide

47–8, 233–4; and temperance 101–2,

351; voice of 206–7

TRAVELS: Baltimore, MD 272; Boston, MA 126–7, 130, 135, 146, 161, 288,

322, 364; Cape Cod, MA 278;

Charleston, SC 285–6, 313, 366; Cleveland, OH 156–7; De Land, FL

338–9, 364–5; Dunedin, FL 314; Elizabeth, NJ 208–9, 223; Endless Caverns, VA 272; Foster, RI 248–9,

278; Hartford, CT 330; Key West, FL

314; Kingston, NY 277–8; Long Island, NY 226–7; Magnolia, MA 155;

Marblehead, MA 161–2, 164;

Nantucket, MA 340–1; Natchez, MS

319; New Hampshire 145, 154–5; New Orleans, LA 319–21; New York, NY

Macauley, G. W. 105–6

MacDonald, George 251

McDonald, Philip B. 83

McGeoch, Verna 112

McGrath, Patrick 338

Machen, Arthur 136, 168–9, 172, 192, 228, 229, 230, 231, 243, 256, 257–8, 274

Macleod, Fiona 170

MacNamara, M. Eileen 13, 14

McNeil, Everett 165–6, 205

Magazine of Fun 199

Magician among the Spirits, A (Houdini) 248 Magistris, Mariano de 126, 260–1

Man from Genoa, The (Long) 262, 365 ‘Man of Stone, The’ (Lovecraft-Heald) 323 Mantell, Robert 24, 381

Man’s Place in Nature and Other

Anthropological Essays (Huxley) 96 Manual of Roman Antiquities, A 56

Mariconda, Steven J. 92, 170, 243, 290, 317

Marvel Tales 334, 382

‘Matter of Uniteds, A’ 79

Matthews, Martha Helen 4

Maupassant, Guy de 108, 243

Mauran, William Lippitt 255

Maxfield, Julia A. 261

Meditations and Contemplations (Hervey) 109 ‘Medusa: A Portrait’ 145

‘Medusa’s Coil’ (Lovecraft-Bishop) 286–7, 292

Mellon, Andrew 353

‘Members of the Men’s Club …, The’ 70 Mencken, H. L. 130

Merritt, A. 366

‘Messenger, The’ 280

Metamorphoses (Ovid) 20–21, 31–2, 90, 91, 178

‘Metaphysical Poets, The’ (Eliot) 176 ‘Metrical Regularity’ 93

Miller, William, Jr 380

Milton, John 18

Mind Power Plus 149

Miniter, Edith 77, 126–7, 146, 161, 263, 272, 274

‘Mirage’ 321

Modern Science and Materialism (Elliot) 131, 139, 182

Modern Temper, The (Krutch) 297

Moe, Donald 165

Moe, Maurice W. 89, 102–3, 117, 118–19, 165, 171, 214, 273, 275, 281, 376 Moe, Robert 165, 376

Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter, The (Bierce-de Castro) 265

‘Monster-God of Mamurth, The’

(Hamilton) 370

Monthly Almanack, The 41

‘Moon-Bog, The’ 130, 140

Moon Terror, The (Birch et al.) 262

Moore, C. L. 38, 365, 366, 375, 379

‘More Chain Lightning’ 101

Morrish, Ethel Phillips 36, 389

Morrow, William (publisher) 384

Morton, James F. 77, 98–9, 127, 146, 149– 50, 151, 153, 164, 166, 177, 184, 189, 202, 204, 205, 212, 220, 228, 235, 242, 260–1, 270, 296, 327

Moskowitz, Sam 256

‘Mound, The’ (Lovecraft-Bishop) 283–5, 292, 309, 357–8

‘Mrs. Miniter—Estimates and Recollections’ 272

Muffin Man, The 127

Munn, H. Warner 257, 261, 274

Munro, Harold W. 63, 67, 68

Munroe, Addison P. 69–70

Munroe, Chester 43, 52, 53, 70, 89

Munroe, Harold 43, 53, 70, 145

Munsey, Frank A. 72

‘Murders in the Rue Morgue, The’ (Poe) 26

Murray, Margaret A. 172

Murray, Will 140

‘Music of Erich Zann, The’ 152, 213, 316, 368

Mussolini, Benito 184, 352

‘Myrrha and Strephon’ 91, 118

‘Mysteries of the Heavens …’ 88–9

‘Mysterious Ship, The’ 26, 27–8, 56

‘Mystery of the Grave-yard; or, A Dead Man’s Revenge, The’ 26–7

‘Mythology for the Young’ 22