S. T. Joshi
S. T. Joshi (2002 promotional photo)
Born	(1958-06-22) June 22, 1958 (age 54) Pune, India
Occupation	Critic, Editor, Historian
Nationality	United States since 1978
Subjects	H. P. Lovecraft, Horror, Fantasy, Atheism, Contemporary Politics, Women's Studies, H. L. Mencken
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Sunand Tryambak Joshi (b. 22 June 1958 in Pune, India) — known as S. T. Joshi — is an award-winning Indian American literary critic, novelist, and a leading figure in the study of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and other authors of weird and fantastic fiction. Besides having written what critics such as Harold Bloom and Joyce Carol Oates consider to be the definitive biography of Lovecraft, I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H.P. Lovecraft (Hippocampus Press, 2 vols., 2010 [originally published in one volume as H. P. Lovecraft: A Life, 1996]),^[1][2] Joshi has prepared (with David E. Schultz) several annotated editions of works by Ambrose Bierce. He has also written on crime novelist John Dickson Carr and on Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood and M. R. James, and has edited collections of their works, as well as collections of the best work of several other weird writers. He is a significant bibliographer, having compiled bibliographies of Lovecraft, Bierce, Dunsany, Ramsey Campbell, William Hope Hodgson (forthcoming), Ray Bradbury and Clark Ashton Smith. He has been general editor of the Horror Classics series for Dover Publications. Most recently he has turned his attention to collecting and editing the works of H. L. Mencken. He currently resides in Seattle, Washington.

Literary criticism[link]

Joshi discovered Lovecraft when he was 13 in the public library in Muncie, Indiana. He read L. Sprague de Camp's biography of Lovecraft, Lovecraft: a Biography, on publication in 1975 and began thereafter to devote himself to the study of Lovecraft, guided in this by scholars such as Dirk W. Mosig, J. Vernon Shea and George Wetzel.^[3] He also wrote some Lovecraftian fiction such as the story "The Recurring Doom", which can be found in Robert M. Price's anthology Acolytes of Cthulhu.

Joshi elected to become a freshman at Brown University primarily because of the holdings of Lovecraft books and manuscripts in the John Hay Library.^[4] He later did graduate work at Princeton University. Appalled at finding literally 1500 textual errors in his favorite Lovecraft story, At the Mountains of Madness, he devoted years of research consulting manuscripts and early publications to establish the textual history of Lovecraft's works, in order to prepare corrected editions of Lovecraft's collected fiction, revisions and miscellaneous writings in collaboration with Jim Turner for Arkham House; they were published in five volumes between 1984 and 1995.^[4]

His literary criticism is notable for its emphases upon readability and the dominant worldviews of the authors in question. His The Weird Tale looks at six acknowledged masters of horror and fantasy (namely Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Dunsany, M. R. James, Bierce and Lovecraft), and discusses their respective worldviews in depth and with authority. Aside from his biography of Lovecraft, Joshi regards this book as his most notable achievement to date.^[5]

A follow-up volume, The Modern Weird Tale, examines the work of modern writers, including Shirley Jackson, Ramsey Campbell, Stephen King, Robert Aickman, Thomas Ligotti, T. E. D. Klein and others, from a similar philosophically oriented viewpoint.

The third of what amounts to a critical trilogy on the weird tale, The Evolution of the Weird Tale (2004), includes essays on Dennis Etchison, L. P. Hartley, Les Daniels, E. F. Benson, Rudyard Kipling, David J. Schow, Robert Bloch, L. P. Davies, Edward Lucas White, Rod Serling, Poppy Z. Brite and others.

Magazines edited[link]

In 1987 Joshi became the fifth Official Editor of the EOD amateur press association (see Esoteric Order of Dagon), an organisation devoted to the study of H.P. Lovecraft particularly but which also examines weird and fantasy fiction in all its forms. Joshi has maintained this role for over twenty years and is currently still Official Editor.

Joshi edited the journals Lovecraft Studies (1979–2001) and Studies in Weird Fiction (1986–2005), both published by Necronomicon Press; and Studies in the Fantastic (2008–09), published by the University of Tampa Press. He is also the editor of Weird Fiction Review (Centipede Press, 2010-), and Lovecraft Annual (2007-) and co-editor of Dead Reckonings (2007-), journals published by Hippocampus Press.

Editions of Lovecraft's letters[link]

Joshi and his editorial collaborator David E. Schultz have edited many volumes of Lovecraft's letters to individuals: for Necronomicon Press (including those to Richard F. Searight, Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner, Samuel Loveman and Vincent Starrett); for Night Shade Books (Mysteries of Time and Spirit: Letters to Donald Wandrei) and Letters from New York; and for University of Tampa Press (O Fortunate Floridian: Letters to Robert H. Barlow).

Joshi and Schultz are now progressively issuing volumes of H.P. Lovecraft's letters to individual correspondents through Hippocampus Press. Volumes already issued include Lovecraft's letters to Rheinhart Kleiner, Alfred Galpin, August Derleth (2 volumes), Robert E. Howard (2 volumes) and James F. Morton. There may be twenty or more volumes of Lovecraft's letters in this series. The next issued are likely to be Lovecraft's letters to Clark Ashton Smith.

Other work including volumes forthcoming[link]

Joshi edited the five-volume set of Lovecraft's Collected Essays issued by Hippocampus Press from 2004-2007. He edited two annotated volumes of Lovecraft's best work for Dell books (the second with Peter H. Cannon).

Joshi and David E. Schultz edited the collected poetry of Clark Ashton Smith, issued by Hippocampus Press (3 volumes) (2007–2008). Joshi is working on the collected poetry of George Sterling.

Forthcoming works (some of which are discussed on Joshi's blog at his official website - see below) also include Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (to be published in two volumes, 2011 & 2012 by PS Publishing); Encyclopedia of the Vampire (Greenwood Press); Horror Fiction Index; a three-volume edition of the letters of Ambrose Bierce; bibliographies of William Hope Hodgson (with Sam Gafford and Mike Ashley) and of Clark Ashton Smith; The White People and Other Weird Tales by Arthur Machen (for Penguin Classics); Essential Writings by Ambrose Bierce (Library of America, forthcoming 2011); a comprehensive bibliography of Ray Bradbury (with Jon Eller); a revised/updated edition of the Ramsey Campbell bibliography The Core of Ramsey Campbell; and an edition of the correspondence between Ramsey Campbell and August Derleth.

Joshi will also edit an exhaustively annotated edition of the stories that Lovecraft revised or ghost-wrote for others, for Bloodletting Press, to appear in two volumes (2011 and 2012).

Joshi is general editor of a new line of original Cthulhu Mythos works from Perilous Press, including works by Michael Shea and Brian Stableford. The first publication was Shea's Copping Squid and Other Mythos Tales (2009), with Stableford's volume titled The Womb of Time (two Mythos novellas).

Joshi has been asked by film director Guillermo del Toro to act as a consultant on del Toro's long-mooted film project, a cinematic version of Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. Del Toro will also contribute an introduction to Joshi's edition of Arthur Machen's tales for Penguin Classics.

Joshi is also working on editions of work by Robert Aickman (including Aickman's unpublished novel Go Back at Once), Maurice Level and John Metcalfe.

Social and atheist criticism[link]

In addition to literary criticism, Joshi has also edited books on atheism and social relations, including Documents of American Prejudice (1999), an annotated collection of American racist writings; In Her Place (2006), which collects written examples of prejudice against women; and Atheism: A Reader (2000), which collects atheistic writings by such people as Antony Flew, George Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Emma Goldman, Gore Vidal and Carl Sagan, among others. An Agnostic Reader, collecting pieces by such writers as Isaac Asimov, John William Draper, Albert Einstein, Frederic Harrison, Thomas Henry Huxley, Robert Ingersoll, Corliss Lamont, Arthur Schopenhauer and Edward Westermarck, was published in 2007.

Joshi is also the author of God's Defenders: What They Believe and Why They Are Wrong (2003), an anti-religious polemic against various writers including C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, T. S. Eliot, William F. Buckley, Jr., William James, Stephen L. Carter, Annie Dillard, Reynolds Price, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Guenter Lewy, Neale Donald Walsch and Jerry Falwell, which is dedicated to theologian and fellow Lovecraft critic Robert M. Price.

In 2006 he published The Angry Right: Why Conservatives Keep Getting It Wrong, which criticized the political writings of such commentators as William F. Buckley, Jr., Russell Kirk, David and Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Phyllis Schlafly, William Bennett, Gertrude Himmelfarb and Irving and William Kristol, arguing that, despite the efforts of right-wing polemicists, the values of the American people have become steadily more liberal over time.

In 2011, Joshi was named the editor-in-chief of The American Rationalist magazine, beginning with the July/August 2011 issue. The American Rationalist, billed as "The alternative to superstition and nonsense", is published by the Center for Inquiry.^[6]

Personal life[link]

Joshi formerly resided in New York City. He is a former senior editor at Chelsea House Publishers. Currently he lives in Seattle, Washington.^[5] Joshi married Leslie Gary Boba on September 1, 2001.^[5] They divorced in December 2010.^[7]

Bibliography[link]

Books written[link]

On H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos[link]

• H. P. Lovecraft and Lovecraft Criticism: An Annotated Bibliography (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1981). This volume is now superseded by Joshi's completely updated/revised edition: H.P. Lovecraft: A Comprehensive Bibliography (University of Tampa Press, 2009).
• An Index to the Selected Letters of H.P. Lovecraft (Necronomicon Press, 1980; 2nd ed, 1991). (This indexes the five volumes of Lovecraft's letters published by Arkham House.)
• H. P. Lovecraft (Starmont Reader's Guide 13) (Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1982).
• H.P. Lovecraft and Lovecraft Criticism: An Annotated Bibliography: Supplement, 1980-84 (with Leigh Blackmore) (Necronomicon Press, 1984).
• H. P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West (Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1990).
• H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1996). (Paperback, with a 250 copy limited hardcover printing). A condensed version was issued as A Dreamer and a Visionary: H.P. Lovecraft in His Time (Liverpool University Press, 2001). The Necronomicon Press edition was reissued in 2004 (paperback) with a new Afterword by Joshi. A new revised/uncut edition (as I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H.P. Lovecraft) (2 vols, hardcover) has been issued in 2010 (Hippocampus Press); this restores 150,000 words cut for space reasons from the original edition, and is also thoroughly revised and updated in regard to new information on Lovecraft that has come to light since 1996. It may be considered^[who?] the last word on Lovecraft biography.
• A Subtler Magick: The Writings and Philosophy of H. P. Lovecraft. (Wildside Press, December 1996). (A much revised and expanded version of Joshi's 1982 Starmont Guide on Lovecraft.)
• An H.P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia (with David E. Schultz) (Greenwood Press, 2001).
• Primal Sources: Essays on H. P. Lovecraft (New York: Hippocampus Press, 2003).
• The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos (Poplar Bluff, MO: Mythos Books, 2008). ISBN 0-9789911-8-4.

Other books[link]

• The Weird Tale (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990).
• John Dickson Carr: A Critical Study (Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1990). (Nominated for the 1991 Anthony Award for "Best Critical / Non-fiction work".)^[8]
• Lord Dunsany: A Bibliography (with Darrell Schweitzer) (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1993).
• Lord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995).
• The Core of Ramsey Campbell: A Bibliography & Reader's Guide (with Ramsey Campbell and Stefan Dziemianowicz) (West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1995).
• Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography (Arkham House, 1999).
• The Modern Weird Tale (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, [March] 2001).
• Ramsey Campbell and Modern Horror Fiction (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, [June] 2001).
• God's Defenders: What They Believe and Why They Are Wrong (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, [June] 2003). ISBN 978-1-59102-080-6.
• The Evolution of the Weird Tale (New York: Hippocampus Press, 2004).
• The Angry Right: Why Conservatives Keep Getting It Wrong (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2006). ISBN 978-1-59102-463-7.
• Gore Vidal: A Comprehensive Bibliography (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2007). ISBN 0-8108-6001-5.
• Emperors of Dreams: Some Notes on Weird Poetry (Sydney: P'rea Press, 2008). ISBN 978-0-9804625-3-1 (paperback, 500 copies); ISBN 978-0-9804625-4-8 (deluxe hardcover, 25 numbered & signed copies).
• Classics and Contemporaries: Some Notes on Horror Fiction (New York: Hippocampus Press, 2009). ISBN 978-0-9814888-3-7.
• Junk Fiction: America's Obsession with Bestsellers (San Bernardino, CA: Borgo Press, 2009). ISBN 978-1-4344-5713-4.
• The Unbelievers: The Evolution of Modern Atheism (Prometheus Books, forthcoming, Feb 2011).
• Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (forthcoming; to be published in two volumes).

Books edited[link]

Editions of works by or about H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos[link]

• Uncollected Prose and Poetry by H.P. Lovecraft (with Marc A. Michaud) (3 vols, Necronomicon Press, 1978–1982).
• H. P. Lovecraft in "The Eyrie" (with Marc A. Michaud) (Necronomicon Press, 1979).
• H. P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism (Ohio State University Press, 1980).
• The Private Life of H. P. Lovecraft by Sonia H. Davis (Sonia Greene) (Necronomicon Press, 1985, 1993).
• Uncollected Letters by H.P. Lovecraft (Necronomicon Press, 1986).
• An Epicure in the Terrible: A Centennial Anthology of Essays in Honour of H. P. Lovecraft (with David E. Schultz) (1991). (New revised edition forthcoming, Hippocampus Press, 2011.)
• The H. P. Lovecraft Centennial Conference: Proceedings (Necronomicon Press, 1991).
• H. P. Lovecraft in the Argosy (1994).
• The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft [The Illustrated/Annotated H.P. Lovecraft] (Necronomicon Press, 1994; 2nd revised ed, 1997).
• Caverns Measureless to Man: 18 Memoirs of Lovecraft (1996).
• The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft (Dell Books, 1997).
• More Annotated H.P. Lovecraft (with Peter H. Cannon) (Dell Books, 1999).
• Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters by H.P. Lovecraft (Ohio University Press, 2000).
• The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature by H.P. Lovecraft (Hippocampus Press, 2000).
• The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H.P. Lovecraft (Night Shade Books, 2001).
• Lovecraft's Library: A Catalogue (revised & enlarged ed., Hippocampus Press, 2002).
• The Shadow Out of Time by H.P. Lovecraft (with David E. Schultz) (Corrected text ed, Hippocampus Press, 2003).
• Collected Essays by H.P. Lovecraft (NY: Hippocampus Press, 5 vols, 2004–2007). Hippocampus have also issued a searchable CD-ROM version containing the complete 5 volumes of Lovecraft's essays on one disc.
• The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories by H. P. Lovecraft (2005).
• O Fortunate Floridian: H. P. Lovecraft's Letters to Robert H. Barlow(with David E. Schultz) (University of Tampa Press, 2007).
• Essential Solitude: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth (2 volumes) (with David E. Schultz, 2008).
• A Means to Freedom: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard (2 volumes) (with David E. Schultz and Rusty Burke, 2009).
• Against Religion by H.P. Lovecraft. Introduction by Christopher Hitchens(Sporting Gentlemen, 2010).
• Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror (PS Publishing, 2010).
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward: Annotated Edition by H.P. Lovecraft. (University of Tampa Press, 2010).
• The Annotated Revision and Collaborations of H.P. Lovecraft (forthcoming, Bloodletting Press, 2 vols.). Vol 1 is titled The Crawling Chaos.
• A Weird Writer in Our Midst (Hippocampus Press, 2010). ISBN 978-0-9844802-1-0. Collection of criticism about Lovecraft by writers contemporary with Lovecraft.
• Spawn of the Green Abyss: Great Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos; (forthcoming, Mythos Books,2011).
• Black Wings II(forthcoming, PS Publishing).

Editions of works by others, reference works, etc.[link]

• Collected Poems by Donald Wandrei (1988).
• Nostalgia of the Unknown: The Complete Prose Poetry by Clark Ashton Smith (with Marc & Susan Michaud and Steve Behrends)(Necronomicon Press, 1988, 1993).
• The Count of Thirty: A Tribute to Ramsey Campbell (1993). (Critical appreciations of Campbell by various authors.)
• Best Ghost Stories by Bram Stoker (with Richard Dalby and Stefan Dziemianowicz) (1997).
• A Night with Mephistopheles by Henry Ferris (1997).
• The Line of Terror and Other Essays by Arthur Machen (Hobgoblin Press, 1997.)
• The Complete John Silence Stories by Algernon Blackwood (Dover Books, 1998).
• A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography by Ambrose Bierce (with David E. Schultz) (1998).
• Documents of American Prejudice (edited) (New York: Basic Books, 1999).
• Great Weird Tales (Dover Books, 1999).
• Collected Fables by Ambrose Bierce (2000).
• Civil War Memories: Lost tales of the Civil War (Rutledge 2000; Gramercy 2003).
• The Horror on the Stair and Other Weird Tales by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (2000).
• The Monster Maker and Other Stories by W. C. Morrow (with Stefan Dziemianowicz) (2000).
• The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce (with David E. Schultz) (2000).
• The Yellow Sign and Other Stories: The Complete Weird Tales of Robert W. Chambers by Robert W. Chambers (2000).
• Atheism: A Reader (Prometheus Books, [October] 2000).
• The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires by Ambrose Bierce (with David E. Schultz) (2000).
• The Mark of the Beast and Other Horror Tales by Rudyard Kipling (Dover Books, 2000).
• From Baltimore to Bohemia: The Letters of H. L. Mencken and George Sterling (2001).
• The Three Impostors and Other Stories by Arthur Machen (2001).
• The Return of the Soul and Other Stories by Robert S. Hichens (2001).
• The Black Diamonds by Clark Ashton Smith (2002).
• Great Tales of Terror (Dover Books, 2002).
• H. L. Mencken on American Literature (2002).
• Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories by Algernon Blackwood (2002).
• H. L. Mencken on Religion (2002).
• Eyes of the God by R. H. Barlow (with Douglas A. Anderson and David E. Schultz) (2002).
• Ramsey Campbell, Probably by Ramsey Campbell (2002).
• The Place Called Dagon by Herbert S. Gorman (2003).
• A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters by Ambrose Bierce (with David E. Schultz) (2003).
• The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror by George Sterling (2003).
• The Pleasures of a Futuroscope by Lord Dunsany (2003).
• The White People and Other Stories by Arthur Machen (2003).
• Mencken's America by H. L. Mencken (2004).
• The Complete Jorkens (3 volumes) by Lord Dunsany (2004).
• In the Land of Time and Other Fantasy Tales by Lord Dunsany (2004).
• The House of Sounds and Others by M. P. Shiel (NY: Hippocampus Press, 2005).
• The Terror and Other Tales by Arthur Machen (2005).
• Closing Arguments: Clarence Darrow on Religion, Law, and Society by Clarence Darrow. (Ohio University Press, 2005).
• Supernatural Literature of the World: An Encyclopaedia (with Stefan Dziemianowicz) (2005).
• Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories by M. R. James (2006).
• The Haunted Doll's House and Other Ghost Stories by M. R. James (2006).
• In Her Place: A Documentary History of Prejudice Against Women (2006).
• Icons of Horror and the Supernatural (Greenwood Press, 2006, 2 vols).
• Warnings to the Curious: A Sheaf of Criticism on M. R. James (with Rosemary Pardoe, 2007).
• The Agnostic Reader (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007).
• American Supernatural Tales (Penguin Books, 2007).
• Barry Pain, An Exchange of Souls/Henri Béraud, Lazarus (Hippocampus Press, 2007).
• Francis Brett Young, Cold Harbour/Leland Hall, Sinister House (Hippocampus Press, 2008).
• What is Man? and Other Irreverent Essays by Mark Twain (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2009).
• The Great God Pan and Other Weird Stories by Arthur Machen (Arcane Wisdom/Bloodletting Press, 2009).
• Collected Poems by H.L. Mencken (Hippocampus Press, 2009).
• Mencken on Mencken: A New Collection of Autobiographical Writings (Louisiana State University Press, 2010).
• Potash and Perlmutter: Stories of the American Jewish Experience by Montague Glass (Borgo Press, 2010).
• Dear Dead Women:The Weird Stories of Edna W. Underwood by Edna W. Underwood (Tartarus Press, 2010).
• Encyclopedia of the Vampire (Greenwood Press, 2010).
• A Walk in the Wastes of Time by Lord Dunsany (forthcoming, Hippocampus Press).
• Dreams of Fear: Poems of Terror and the Supernatural (forthcoming, Mythos Books, 2011).
• Dead Titans Waken (early version of Web of Easter Island)/Invisible Sun by Donald Wandrei. (forthcoming, Centipede Press, 2011).

Books translated[link]

• Lovecraft: A Study in the Fantastic by Maurice Lévy (1988).

Foreign editions[link]

• Qu'est-ce que le Mythe de Cthulhu ? (Dir.) (La Clef d'Argent, 2007).

Novels[link]

• The Removal Company: An Historical Mystery Novel as by "J.K. Maxwell" (Borgo Press, 2009). The identity of Joshi as the author of this novel was revealed on W.H. Pugmire's blog on 1 Aug, 2010, and has since been acknowledged on Joshi's own Web site.^[9] The title has since been reprinted under Joshi's own name.
• Tragedy at Sarsfeld Manor/Conspiracy of Silence (Borgo Press, 2011)

Introductions and forewords[link]

• Leigh Blackmore. Spores from Sharnoth & Other Madnesses. (P'rea Press,2008, 2010; Rainfall Books, 2010).
• William F. Nolan & Jason V Brock, ed., The Bleeding Edge (Cycatrix Press, 2009) [signed/limited].
• Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories (Tartarus Press, 2009).
• Voltaire God and Human Beings (Prometheus Books, 2010), the first translation of the work Dieu et les hommes (tr. Michael Shreve).

Magazines edited[link]

• Lovecraft Studies (1979–2004)(Nos. 1-41:Necronomicon Press; the double issue 42/43 was published by Hippocampus Press, after which rights reverted to Necronomicon Press, who published the final two issues, 44 and 45. Lovecraft Studies was replaced with Lovecraft Annual (see below).
• Studies in Weird Fiction (1986–2003) (Nos. 1-24 and 27: Necronomicon Press). (No. 25 published by Hippocampus Press.) Note: The Summer 2003 issue was erroneously numbered 25 (which had been previously used on the Summer 2001 issue). There was no Issue 26. The final Issue was No. 27, Spring 2005.
• Necrofile: The Review of Horror Fiction (1992–1999) (Necronomicon Press) (co-edited with Stefan Dziemanowicz and Michael A. Morrison). See also Necropsy under Reviews (below).
• Lovecraft Annual (2007- ) (Hippocampus Press).
• Dead Reckonings (2007- ) (first co-editor Jack M. Haringa; second co-editor Anthony J. Fonseca) (Hippocampus Press).
• Studies in the Fantastic (2008–2009) ( Nos. 1-2 (all published): University of Tampa Press).
• Weird Fiction Review (2010 - ) (Centipede Press).

Reviews[link]

Joshi has regularly reviewed in the horror field for the journals he has edited (see above). In addition he reviewed for Necropsy: The Review of Horror Fiction (edited by June Pulliam), the online sister journal to the print journal Necrofile (see above). Joshi's Necropsy reviews are archived at http://www.lsu.edu/necrofile/sindex_reviewers.htm.

Awards[link]

• Horror Writers Association – Bram Stoker Award for Nonfiction [1]
  1996 H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (Necronomicon Press) – Author
  
• British Fantasy Society – British Fantasy Award for Best Small-Press Publication [2]
  1997 H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (Necronomicon Press) – Author
  
• International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts – IAFA Distinguished Critic Award [3]
  2003
  
• Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America – World Fantasy Award for Professional Scholarship [4]
  2005
  
• International Horror Guild – Outstanding Achievement in Horror & Dark Fantasy for Nonfiction [5]
  2005 Supernatural Literature of the World (Greenwood Press) – Co-editor
  
• International Horror Guild – Outstanding Achievement in Horror & Dark Fantasy for Nonfiction [6]
  2006 Icons of Horror and the Supernatural (Greenwood Press) – Editor
  

References[link]

• Griffin, David. "Interview: S.T. Joshi". Carnage Hall No 4 (1993).
• Harksen, Henrik (ed). Out of the Shadows: An E.O.D. Tribute to S.T. Joshi. Odense, Denmark: H. Harksen Productions, 2004.
• Murray, Will. "S.T. Joshi: Re-editor". [interview] Comics Buyer's Guide (Nov 18, 1988); Dagon 24 (Jan-March 1989).

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• "Lurking Terror: H. P. Lovecraft's Socialism" - Interview with Dr. James Hughes (Changesurfer Radio)
• 2004 Interview with Joshi at Temple of Dagon [7]
• "YOG RADIO #29: Interview with S.T. Joshi" - Audio interview with Yog-Sothoth.com
• Interview with S.T. Joshi at AcidLogic
• Official S. T. Joshi Website
• S. T. Joshi at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Audio interview with Joshi at Agony Column [8]
• "Fright and Freethought - S.T. Joshi" - Audio interview with Joshi by Robert M. Price [9]
• Interview with Joshi by James McAlmont at Fruitless Recursion [10]

433 Eros, an example of an S-type asteroid

S-type asteroids are of a stony composition, hence the name. Approximately 17% of asteroids are of this type, making it the second most common after the C-type.

Characteristics[link]

S-types are moderately bright (with an albedo of 0.10 to 0.22) and consist mainly of iron- and magnesium-silicates. They are dominant in the inner asteroid belt within 2.2 AU, common in the central belt within about 3 AU, but become rare farther out. The largest is 15 Eunomia (about 330 km wide across its longest dimension), with the next largest members by diameter being 3 Juno, 29 Amphitrite, 532 Herculina and 7 Iris. These largest S-types are visible in 10x50 binoculars at most oppositions; the brightest, 7 Iris, can occasionally become brighter than +7.0, which is a higher magnitude than any asteroid except the unusually reflective 4 Vesta.

Their spectrum has a moderately steep slope at wavelengths shorter than 0.7 µm, and has moderate to weak absorption features around 1 µm and 2 µm. The 1 µm absorption is indicative of the presence of silicates (stony minerals). Often there is also a broad but shallow absorption feature centered near 0.63 µm. The composition of these asteroids is similar to a variety of stony meteorites which share similar spectral characteristics.

S-group asteroids[link]

SMASS classification[link]

In the SMASS classification, several generally "stony" types of asteroids are brought together into a wider S-group which contains the following types:

• A-type
• K-type
• L-type
• Q-type
• R-type
• a core S-type for asteroids having the most "typical" spectra for the S-group
• Sa, Sk, Sl, Sq, and Sr-types containing transition objects between the core S-type and the A, K, L, Q, and R-types, respectively.

This whole "S" assemblage of asteroids is spectrally quite distinct from the carbonaceous C-group and the mostly metallic X-group.

Tholen classification[link]

In the Tholen classification the S-type is a very broad grouping which includes all the types in the SMASS S-group except for the A, Q, and R, which have particularly strong "stony" absorption features around 1 μm.

See also[link]

• Asteroid spectral types
• L-type asteroid
• K-type asteroid
• X-type asteroid

References[link]

• Bus, S. J.; Binzel, R. P. (2002). "Phase II of the Small Main-belt Asteroid Spectroscopy Survey: A feature-based taxonomy". Icarus 158 (1): 146–177. Bibcode 2002Icar..158..146B. DOI:10.1006/icar.2002.6856. 

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Genres	Horror, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Magic Realism, Poetry, Non-Fiction, Comics
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Jason V Brock, born March 1, 1970, is an American author, artist, editor and director. He is the CEO and co-founder (with his wife, Sunni) of JaSunni Productions, LLC, whose documentary films include the controversial Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone’s Magic Man,^[1] The AckerMonster Chronicles!,^[1] and the upcoming Image, Reflection, Shadow: Artists of the Fantastic.^[1] He is also the author of Totems and Taboos, a compilation of his poetry and artwork, and an editor, along with William F. Nolan, of The Bleeding Edge: Dark Barriers, Dark Frontiers and The Devil's Coattails: More Dispatches from the Dark Frontier anthologies published by Cycatrix Press.^[2] Brock shares story credit (he was Story Consultant and lead Costume Designer) on the Logan’s Run: Last Day and related comicbook series from Bluewater Productions. In addition, he is also a writer for the comicbook/graphic novel, Tales from William F. Nolan's Dark Universe (also from Bluewater).^[2] He has served as Managing Editor/Contributor and Art Director for Dark Discoveries magazine.^[3] His novella, Milton’s Children, is being published by Bad Moon Books in 2012.^[4][5] His poetry, short stories, non-fiction articles, Introductions and essays have been widely published internationally online, in books and in numerous horror, science fiction and fantasy and scholarly print magazines (Fangoria, Dark Discoveries, Ethereal Tales, Calliope [Official Publication of the Writers' Special Interest Group (SIG) of American Mensa, Ltd], Comic-Con International's Souvenir Book, the Weird Fiction Review, American Rationalist [an organ of the Center for Inquiry], and others) and multiple anthologies (Butcher Knives and Body Counts, The Bleeding Edge, Like Water for Quarks, Animal Magnetism, and so on).^[6] With a large personality and gregarious nature, he is a popular panelist at many horror conventions (such as MythosCon, Orycon, Crypticon and others) and film festivals (including the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, Buffalo International Film Festival, Lovecraft's Visions, etc.) and has been compared in intensity to Harlan Ellison and Charles Beaumont by his friends and colleagues.^[2][5]

Life and career[link]

American science fiction, fantasy, and horror authors William F. Nolan, Jason V Brock, John Shirley, and Frank M. Robinson.

Brock was born in Charlotte, North Carolina.^[2] His father was a freelance journalist and graphic designer. His stepfather, Danny Thomas, was a drummer for the 13th Floor Elevators. As a teenager, Brock led the Progressive Rock/Avant-Garde band ChiaroscurO in Charlotte.^[6] He also assisted his father, James Brock, in writing and design. He later worked for James Robert Smith (editor, and author, The Flock) at a comic book store where he met many like-minded individuals and honed his creative writing skills. After that, he worked as a graphic designer for Morris Costumes in their catalog department and also served as an artist’s apprentice for Pat Piro and as an audio engineer trainee at Reflection Sound Studio under Mark Williams.^[4][5] Brock has lived on the West Coast since 1993 spending time in Seattle, Los Angeles and Vancouver, WA. He was an award-winning Field Service Engineer and Regional Manager for several photo companies (Kits/Ritz Cameras, Konica Quality Photo West) before working as a Product Specialist for Fuji Photo Film; he left to form JaSunni Productions, LLC in 2005.^[2] Brock and his wife, Sunni, are longtime vegetarians (often vegan) and animal lovers/animal rights activists. They have several skinks, an iguana named “Liz” and four red-foot tortoises that roam their home wearing diapers. During filming of the Charles Beaumont documentary, he struck up a deep friendship with William F. Nolan who is also a vegetarian and very fond of animals. Nolan relocated to Vancouver, WA to be near the Brocks who are like an extended family.^[2]

Works[link]

Anthology Appearances[link]

• Animal Magnetism, poetry. Featured contributor. Edited by S.A. Parham & W. Olivia Race. P. R. Publishing, 2005.
• The Bleeding Edge: Dark Barriers, Dark Frontiers, fiction. Contributor. Edited by Jason V Brock and William F. Nolan. Cycatrix Press, 2010.
• Like Water for Quarks, fiction. Contributor. Edited by Elton Elliott and Bruce Taylor. MVP Publishing, 2011.
• Butcher Knives & Body Counts, non-fiction. Contributor. Edited by Vince Liaguno. Dark Scribe Press, 2011.
• The Devil’s Coattails: More Dispatches from the Dark Frontier, anthology. Contributor. Edited by Jason V Brock and William F. Nolan. Cycatrix Press, 2011.
• Black Wings II, fiction. Contributor. Edited by S. T. Joshi. PS Publishing, 2012.
• Night Terrors II, fiction. Contributor. Edited by Theresa Dillon. Blood Bound Books, 2012.
• Slices of Flesh, fiction. Contributor. Dark Moon Books, 2012.

Collections[link]

• Disorders of Magnitude, non-fiction. Writer. TBD.

Comics and Graphic Novels[link]

• Logan's Run: Last Day. Story/Costume Design. Bluewater Productions, 2009.
• Logan's Run: Aftermath. Story/Costume Design. Bluewater Productions, 2011.
• Tales from William F. Nolan's Dark Universe. Writer. Bluewater Productions, 2012.

Editor[link]

• Dark Discoveries, magazine. Managing Editor/Art Director. Dark Discoveries Publications, 2008–2012.
• [1] The Bleeding Edge: Dark Barriers, Dark Frontiers, anthology. Editor (with William F. Nolan)/Contributor/Designer. Cycatrix Press, 2010. The anthology features previously unpublished material by Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, William F. Nolan, George Clayton Johnson, Dan O’Bannon, Earl Hamner, Jr., Norman Corwin, John Shirley, and many younger authors, with a foreword by S. T. Joshi. The release was celebrated by an unprecedented signing event in Glendale, Ca at Mystery and Imagination Bookstore where a nearly 90-year-old Bradbury and nearly 100-year-old Corwin greeted hundreds of fans who waited hours to get their copies signed by the fourteen authors in attendance.^[7] The book went on to win an award for Book and Jacket Design from Pacific Printing Industries Association, as well as several Honorable Mentions and a main selection in The Best Horror of the Year, edited by Ellen Datlow.^[8]
• William F. Nolan: A Miscellany, chapbook. Editor/Designer. Dark Discoveries Publications in conjunction with Cycatrix Press, 2011.
• [2] The Devil’s Coattails: More Dispatches from the Dark Frontier, anthology. Editor (with William F. Nolan)/Contributor/Designer. Cycatrix Press, 2011.
• Dead Man Walking and Other Shadow Tales (formerly titled The Blood Princess and Other Shadow Tales), fiction collection by William F. Nolan. Editor/Contributor. Arkham House or Centipede Press, 2013 (tentative).^[9][10]

Film[link]

• Charles Beaumont: The Life of Twilight Zone’s Magic Man, documentary. Director/Writer/Producer. JaSunni Productions, LLC, 2010. The film made its World Premiere at the Egyptian Theatre (American Cinematheque) in Hollywood, in March, 2010.^[11]
• The AckerMonster Chronicles!, documentary (about Forrest J Ackerman). Director/Writer/Producer. JaSunni Productions, LLC, 2012.

Novels[link]

• Milton’s Children, novella. Author. Bad Moon Books, 2012.

Other Appearances[link]

• Guest Writer -- September, 2011, online. Writer, two stories featured ("Red-Wat-Shod", "The Underground"). Paul Kane (writer)'s Shadow Writer website, 2011.^[12]

• The Gothic Imagination, interview collection by John C. Tibbetts. Interviewee. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Poetry[link]

• Totems and Taboos, illustrated chapbook. Writer/Artist. Cycatrix Press, 2005.

Influences[link]

Literary: Jorge Luis Borges, H. P. Lovecraft, Kafka, Rod Serling, Bataille, Kurt Vonnegut, W. S. Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, George Orwell, Dante, Percy Shelley, Homer, Poe, Robbe-Grillet, Richard Selzer, William F. Nolan, Ray Bradbury, George Clayton Johnson, Charles Beaumont, Dennis Etchison ^[4]

Visual: Hieronymous Bosch, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Ernst Fuchs, Botticelli, Wolfgang Grasse, Beksinski, Bocklin, Vesalius, EC Comics, Francis Bacon, H. R. Giger, Minor White, Helmut Newton ^[4]

Film: Dan O’Bannon (a personal friend and mentor),^[13] David Cronenberg, George A. Romero, Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Buñuel, Kurosawa, Brakhage, Roger Corman, Oliver Stone, Dario Argento ^[4]

Music: David Bowie, The Beatles, King Crimson, Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, Sir Peter Maxwell-Davies, Philip Glass, Rush, Segovia, Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon, Yes, The Police, classical, jazz, soundtracks, John Coltrane, John McLaughlin

Works in Production[link]

• [NaMeL3ss] Magazine, magazine (twice yearly). Editor/Art Director. Cycatrix Press, 2012.
• (UnSub), novel. Author. TBD, 2013.
• The Kellen Diaries, novella. Author. TBD, 2013.
• Homunculus, novel. Author. TBD, 2013.
• Grotteschi, short story collection. Author. TBD, 2013.
• Strange Interlude: The Many Worlds of Charles Beaumont, bibliography. Editor (with William F. Nolan). TBD, 2013.
• Image, Reflection, Shadow: Artists of the Fantastic, documentary (regarding metaphorical imagery from Hieronymous Bosch to the present). Director/Writer/Producer. JaSunni Productions, LLC, 2013.
• "A Darke Phantastique": Encounters with the Uncanny and Other Magical Realities..., anthology. Editor/Contributor/Designer. Cycatrix Press, 2013.
• Logan Falls, novel (a new sequel in the Logan's Run series). Author (with William F. Nolan), TBD.^[14]

Affiliations and Awards[link]

• Active Member, Horror Writers Association (HWA).
• Member, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).
• Member, Photo Marketing Association (PMA).
• Member, Certified Photographic Consultants (CPC).
• Member, Society of Photofinishing Engineers (SPFE).
• Award for Book and Jacket Design 2010, Pacific Printing Industries Association (PPI).

References[link]

External links[link]

• JaSunni Productions website
• Jason V Brock at the Internet Movie Database
• Jason V Brock on FaceBook
• Jason V Brock at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Edward Lucas White (May 11, 1866 – March 30, 1934) was an American author and poet. Born in Bergen, New Jersey, he attended Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, in which city he did most of his work. From 1915 until his retirement in 1930, he was a teacher at the University School for Boys in Baltimore.

He wrote a number of historical novels, including The Unwilling Vestal (1918), Andivius Hedulio (1921) and Helen (1926); but he is best remembered as a fantasist, for stories such as "The House of Nightmare" and "Lukundoo" These short horror stories were based on his own nightmares. Two collections of his short fiction were published in his lifetime, The Song of the Sirens (1919) and Lukundoo and Other Stories (1927). He died by his own hand on March 30, 1934, seven years to the day after the death of his wife, Agnes Gerry. His last book, Matrimony (1932) was a memoir of his happy marriage to her.

"Lukundoo", Lucas's most frequently anthologized story, is the tale of an American explorer in a remote section of Africa who incurs the wrath of the local witch doctor, who casts a spell on him. Hundreds of sore pustules erupt all over the explorer's body. As these develop, it becomes clear that each sore is actually a sort of homunculus: a tiny African man, emerging head-first from within the explorer's flesh. He is able to terminate the development of individual homunculi by beheading them as they develop, but there are too many for him to defeat them all – and some of them are on portions of his back which he cannot reach. The explorer's only option is suicide.

Two posthumous collections of his fiction have been published by Midnight House: The House of the Nightmare (1999) edited by John Pelan and Sesta and Other Strange Stories (2001) edited by Lee Weinstein.^[1] The latter contains mostly previously unpublished and uncollected material.

A much-revised utopian science fiction novel, Plus Ultra, was begun in 1885; White destroyed this draft, but began a rewrite in 1901. In 1918-19 he produced a novella, From Behind the Stars, which he later incorporated into the massive (S. T. Joshi estimates it at 500,000 words^[2]) completed version of Plus Ultra, which remains unpublished.

A critical essay on White's work, with particular reference to his fantasy and horror fiction, appears in Joshi's book, The Evolution of the Weird Tale (2004).

Bibliography[link]

Novels[link]

• El Supremo: A Romance of the Great Dictator of Paraguay (1916)
• The Unwilling Vestal: A Tale of Rome Under the Caesars (1918)
• Andivius Hedulio: Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire (1921)
• Helen (1926)

Short Story Collections[link]

• The Song of the Sirens (1919)
• Lukundoo and Other Stories (1927)

History[link]

• Why Rome Fell (1927)

Autobiography[link]

• Matrimony (1932)

Notes[link]

External links[link]

Wikisource has original works written by or about: Edward Lucas White

• Edward Lucas White Papers at Milton S. Eisenhower Library
• Works by Edward Lucas White at Project Gutenberg
• Edward Lucas White at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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H. P. Lovecraft
File:Lovecraft1934.jpg H. P. Lovecraft, circa 1934.
Born	Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-08-20)August 20, 1890 Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Died	March 15, 1937(1937-03-15) (aged 46) Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Resting place	Swan Point Cemetery, Providence
Pen name	Lewis Theobold, Humphrey Littlewit, Ward Phillips, Edward Softly
Occupation	Short story writer, Editor, Novelist, Poet
Nationality	United States
Genres	Horror, science fiction, fantasy, weird fiction, Gothic fiction
Literary movement	Cosmicism, Weird fiction
Notable work(s)	"The Call of Cthulhu", The Shadow Out of Time, At the Mountains of Madness
Spouse(s)	Sonia Greene (1883-1972)
Influences Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Robert W. Chambers, Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, A. Merritt, Oswald Spengler, Friedrich Nietzsche, William Hope Hodgson, Augustan literature
Influenced Stephen King, Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, August Derleth, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, Jorge Luis Borges, Peter Straub, Clark Ashton Smith, Michel Houellebecq, Graham Harman, Rikki Ducornet, Robert E. Howard, Ramsey Campbell, Alan Moore, Gene Wolfe, China Mieville, George R. R. Martin, Guillermo del Toro, John Carpenter, Stuart Gordon, Neil Gaiman, Brian Lumley, Caitlin R. Kiernan, S.T. Joshi
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) — known as H. P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction.^[1]

Lovecraft's guiding aesthetic and philosophical principle was what he termed "cosmicism" or "cosmic horror", the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally inimical to the interests of humankind. As such, his stories express a profound indifference to human beliefs and affairs. Lovecraft is best known for his Cthulhu Mythos story cycle and the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore.^[2]

Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his lifetime, his reputation has grown over the decades, and he is now regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century. According to Joyce Carol Oates, Lovecraft—as with Edgar Allan Poe in the 19th century—has exerted "an incalculable influence on succeeding generations of writers of horror fiction".^[3] Stephen King called Lovecraft "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale."^[4][5] King has even made it clear in his semi-autobiographical non-fiction book Danse Macabre that Lovecraft was responsible for King's own fascination with horror and the macabre, and was the single largest figure to influence his fiction writing.^[6] His stories have also been adapted into plays, films and games.