Cover Illustration by Allen Koszowski [illustration]

Lovecraft’s “The Bride of the Sea” and the Uses of Bathos by Manuel Pérez-Campos [essay]

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Following “The Ancient Track” by Jonathan Adams [essay]

Letters to Carl Ferdinand Strauch by H. P. Lovecraft; edited by S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz

Appendix: A Library Goes Regionalist by Carl F. Strauch [essay]

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The Construction of Race in the Early Poetry of H.P. Lovecraft by Phillip A. Ellis [essay]

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The Ecstasies of “The Thing on the Doorstep,” “Medusa’s Coil,” and Other Erotic Studies by Robert H. Waugh [essay]

Notes on a Nonentity by H. P. Lovecraft [essay]

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In Memoriam: Dr. Harry K. Brobst (1909–2010) by Christopher M. O’Brien [essay]

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Time, Space, and Natural Law: Science and Pseudo-Science in Lovecraft by S. T. Joshi [essay]

Reviews [review]

Review of A Means to Fredom: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard by H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard; edited by S. T. Joshi, David E. Schultz, and Rusty Burke; reviewed by Martin Andersson

Review of H.P. Lovecraft: A Comprehensive Bibliography by S. T. Joshi and S. T. Joshi; reviewed by Steven J. Mariconda and Donald R. Burleson

Review of I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H.P. Lovecraft [review]

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