H. P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism

H. P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism is a collection of non-fiction pieces focused on the works of late American author Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
==Overview==
Edited by leading Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi, who also contributed some of the essays, H. P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism was published by Ohio University Press in 1980 (hardcover) and 1981 (paperback). It runs to a total of 247 pages.
==Contents==
*Preface by S. T. Joshi
*"H. P. Lovecraft: His Life and Work" by Kenneth W. Faig, Jr. and S. T. Joshi
*"Lovecraft Criticism: A Study" by S. T. Joshi
*"A Chronology of Selected Works by H. P. Lovecraft" by S. T. Joshi
*"H. P. Lovecraft: An Appreciation" by T. O. Mabbott
*"Tales of the Marvellous and Ridiculous" by Edmund Wilson
*"A Literary Copernicus" by Fritz Leiber
*"From The Supernatural in Fiction" (excerpt) by Peter Penzoldt
*"The Cthulhu Mythos: A Study" by George T. Wetzel
*"Some Notes on Cthulhuian Pseudobiblia" by Edward Lauterbach
*"H. P. Lovecraft: Myth-Maker" by Dirk W. Mosig
*"On the Literary Influences Which Shaped Lovecraft's Works" by J. Vernon Shea
*"The Influence of Vathek on H. P. Lovecraft's The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" by Peter Cannon
*"Poe and Lovecraft" by Robert Bloch
*"H.P. Lovecraft in Hawthornian Perspective" by Peter Cannon
*"Through Hyperspace with Brown Jenkin: Lovecraft's Contribution to Speculative Fiction" by Fritz Leiber
*"Facts in the Case of H. P. Lovecraft" by Barton L. St. Armand
*""The White Ship": A Psychological Odyssey" by Dirk W. Mosig
*"Lovecraft and the Cosmic Quality in Fiction" by Richard L. Tierney
*"Dystopia as Utopia: Howard Phillips Lovecraft and the Unknown Content of American Horror Literature" by Paul Buhle
*"A Parenthesis on Lovecraft as Poet" by Winfield Townley Scott
*"A Lovecraftian Nightmare" by R. Boerem
*"The Continuity of the Fungi from Yuggoth" by R. Boerem
*"To Howard Phillips Lovecraft" by Clark Ashton Smith
==Gallery==
Four Decades of Criticism 2.jpeg|1981 paperback edition cover
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