More Annotated H. P. Lovecraft

Lovecraft scholars S. T. Joshi and Cannon provides another rare opportunity to look into the mind of a genius. Their extensive notes lift the veil between real events in the writer's life, such as the death of his father, and the words that spill out onto the page in magnificent grotesquerie. Mansions, universities, laboratories, and dank New England boneyards appear in foul splendor as the haunts where Lovecraft's characters confront the fabulous and fantastic, or, like the narrator in "Herbert West -- Reanimator, " dig up fresh corpses.