For the Outsider: Poems Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft

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  • Edited by S. T. Joshi
  • 178 pages
  • Cover artwork and design by Dan Sauer.
  • ISBN 9781614984139 paperback

 

 

 

 

H. P. Lovecraft is distinctive for having inspired a plethora of poetic tributes from friends, colleagues, and disciples. These tributes emerged surprisingly early; the first ones date to 1918, when several amateur writers took note of the unique characteristics of Lovecraft’s life and work. During his lifetime, Samuel Loveman, Frank Belknap Long, Robert E. Howard, Donald Wandrei, and others sought to portray Lovecraft’s inimitable personality and his innovative work in wide-ranging verse.

 

After Lovecraft’s early death in 1937, other writers—Clark Ashton Smith, August Derleth, R. H. Barlow, Joseph Payne Brennan, Lilith Lorraine—paid homage to him in odes, quatrains, and sonnets. The tradition has continued to the present day, with such contemporary writers as Ann K. Schwader, Leigh Blackmore, Wade German, W. H. Pugmire, Adam Bolivar, Fred Phillips, and countless others envisioning the myriad phases of Lovecraft’s creative work in poetry that itself evokes the terror and pathos of his writing.

 

This volume contains dozens of poems, written over a period of more than a century, in which a multitude of diverse authors use the medium of poetry to convey their devotion to Lovecraft the man and to his imperishable literary oeuvre.

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

I. Poems about Lovecraft

Lovecraft—An Appreciation / Arthur Goodenough

Greeting / John Milton Samples

At Providence in 1918 / Rheinhart Kleiner

To Satan / Samuel Loveman

Epistle to Mr. and Mrs. Lovecraft / Rheinhart Kleiner

Bacchanale / Samuel Loveman

The Four of Us! / Rheinhart Kleiner

[To Lewis Theobald] / Frank Belknap Long

To Mr. Theobald / Samuel Loveman

After a Decade / Rheinhart Kleiner

Elegy: In Providence the Spring . . . / August Derleth

To Howard Phillips Lovecraft / Clark Ashton Smith

For H. P. Lovecraft / Henry Kuttner

H. P. Lovecraft / Elizabeth Toldridge

Divinity / Elizabeth Toldridge

Yet Still We Mourn / Frank Earle Schermerhorn

H. P. L. / Henry Kuttner

Lost Dream / Emil Petaja

H. P. L. / Albert Chapin

H. P. Lovecraft / Frank Belknap Long

H. P. L. / R. H. Barlow

H. P. L. / Rheinhart Kleiner

For Howard Phillips Lovecraft / Robert A. W. Lowndes

To Howard Phillips Lovecraft / Henry George Weiss

For the Outsider: H. P. Lovecraft / Charles E. White

In Memoriam: H. P. Lovecraft / Richard Ely Morse

Anniversary / R. H. Barlow

HPL / Vincent Starrett

Homage to H. P. Lovecraft / Felix Stefanile

H. P. L. / Clark Ashton Smith

Lines to H. P. Lovecraft / Joseph Payne Brennan

Revenants / August Derleth

A Walk in Providence / J. Vernon Shea

To H. P. Lovecraft / S. T. Joshi

At Lovecraft’s Grave / Brett Rutherford

Providence: March 15, 1937 / Leigh Blackmore

In a Sequestered Churchyard Where Once Lovecraft Walked / Leigh Blackmore

In Swan Point Cemetery / Robert H. Waugh

Ave Augustissime: An Acrostic Sonnet on H. P. Lovecraft, Esq. / Manuel Pérez-Campos

On a Threadbare Photograph of H.P.L. at 66 College St. / Manuel Pérez-Campos

H.P.L.: R.I.P. / Manuel Arenas

Seer of Black Spheres / Scott J. Couturier

The Haunter of College Hill / David Barker

Lovecraft / Fred Phillips

 

II. Poems Inspired by Lovecraft

Selenaio-Phantasma / Alfred Galpin

The Unknown Color / Donald Wandrei

Arkham / Robert E. Howard

Mad Dream / Richard Ely Morse

Shadow over Innsmouth / Virginia Anderson

The Acolytes / Lilith Lorraine

Mountains of Madness / Richard L. Tierney

To Great Cthulhu / Richard L. Tierney

In Memoriam Arthur Jermyn / Ann K. Schwader

The Coming of Chaos / Ann K. Schwader

Dunwich Pastoral / Wade German

Faint Echoes / Ann K. Schwader

“The Hound” / W. H. Pugmire

“The Outsider” / W. H. Pugmire

The Keeper of the Innsmouth Light / M. F. Webb

Kiosk to Kadath / Chad Hensley

Zann / Ian Futter

Forty Years in Innsmouth / M. F. Webb

Azathoth / Charles Lovecraft

R’lyeh / F. J. Bergmann

The Crypt of Nitocris / David Barker

Elder Beings / Leigh Blackmore

The Ballad of the de la Poers / Adam Bolivar

Shadow over Arkham / Fred Phillips

The King of Horrors, Howard Phillips Lovecraft / Charles Lovecraft

Stanzas of the Metaphysical Student Found in a Notebook / Manuel Pérez-Campos

O Iranon / Charles Lovecraft

Jenkin / Ross Balcom

Dancing Before Azathoth / Darrell Schweitzer

Things Man Was Meant to Know / DJ Tyrer

The Sunken City / Ngo Binh Anh Khoa

The Dreamer and the Dreaded Ones / Frank Coffman

The Basalt City / Linn Donlon

Lovecraftian Visions: A Grander Species of Monster / Andrew White

The Guide / Scott J. Couturier

To Curse What the Moon Brings / Maxwell I. Gold

Randwulf’s Return / Adam Bolivar

Veniat ei Malum qui Vocat Malum / Frank Coffman

Sentinel Hill / Ann K. Schwader and David C. Kopaska-Merkel

Azathoth; or, The Daemon-Sultan / Leigh Blackmore

 

Sources

 

About the Contributors

 

Indexes

Authors

Titles and First Lines
 

 


 

 

 

 

 



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