The Tryout

The Tryout was an amateur publication, part of the National Amateur Press Association, put out from 1914-1946 by Charles W. Smith of Haverhill, Massachusetts.ZineWiki, "The Tryout". The monthly was the first outlet for several Lovecraft stories: "The Cats of Ulthar" (November 1920), "The Terrible Old Man" (July 1921), "The Tree" (October 1921), and "In the Vault" (November 1925). 
Lovecraft also published numerous poems and articles in Smith's journal under a variety of pseudonyms, including Lawrence Appleton, Alexander Ferguson Blair, Archibald Maynwaring, Henry Paget-Lowe, Ward Phillips, Richard Raleigh, Ames Dorrance Rowley, Edward Softly and Lewis Theobald, Jr. “There were so many things in The Tryout from Lovecraft, that they decided he had to keep using pseudonyms so people wouldn’t think Lovecraft was monopolizing The Tryout,” reported Paul Eno, a former Providence Journal News editor and a distant cousin of Lovecraft's, on the occasion of the dedication of a marker for Smith's formerly unmarked grave.Wavelengths, "‘Tryout Smith’ Grave Marker Dedication at Hilldale Cemetery Attracts National Crowd", WHAV News Staff, September 27, 2018.
A number of Lovecraft's associates also published in The Tryout, including Clark Ashton Smith and August Derleth. 
The Tryout was noted for its typographical errors, which Lovecraft referred to as "tryoutisms".An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia, "Smith, Charles W. (1852-1948)", S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz (Hippocampus Press, 2004).
== References ==
Category:Amateur Press
Category:Defunct (real world)