word from hippocampus

Dear Bookseller,

With just two weeks away, now is your chance to stock up on Hippocampus Press book for World Fantasy Convention. Several new titles are available, including the very first issue of our all-new journal THE LOVECRAFT ANNUAL. Please advise quantities desired.

Best wishes,

Derrick Hussey, Hippocampus Press

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THE LOVECRAFT ANNUAL: New Scholarship on H. P. Lovecraft
Edited by S. T. Joshi
No. 1 (October 2007): 160 pages: $15.00

DEAD RECKONINGS

A Review Magazine for the Horror Field

Edited by S. T. Joshi and Jack Madison Haringa

No. 1 (Spring 2007): 100 pp

Single Issue Price: $7.50

WARNINGS TO THE CURIOUS: A Sheaf of Criticism on M. R. James

Edited by S. T. Joshi and Rosemary Pardoe

ISBN-13: 978-0-9771734-8-8

July 2007: 340 pp: $20.00

British writer Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) is the most

influential author of ghost stories in literary history, but his work

has not received the attention it deserves. Warnings to the Curious,

the first volume on James to be devoted entirely to his ghostly

fiction, features a wealth of material old and new about the

scholarly author and his supernatural writing. Please visit our

website for the table of contents.

LAIR OF THE DREAMER: A Cthulhu Mythos Omnibus

By Franklyn Searight

With an Introduction by Robert M. Price, and Illustrations by Robert H. Knox

ISBN-13: 978-0-9793806-0-0

July 2007: 306 pp: $20.00

Frank Searight is the son of Richard F. Searight, Weird Tales author

and correspondent of H. P. Lovecraft. The elder Searight invented the

evocative Eltdown Shards for use in stories like his “The Sealed

Casket” and “The Warder of Knowledge.” Lovecraft borrowed the book

title and employed it in his own stories. And though the elder Searight made no great

effort to carry on the Mythos tradition of Lovecraft, the younger

Searight does. Many enthusiasts of the Cthulhu Mythos have been

delighted to discover a story of Frank’s included in a magazine or an

anthology here and there since the mid-seventies. Thus it is a great

treat and a privilege for us to be able to draw all his Innsmouth

Stories together, along with an unpublished Mythos novel, LAIR OPF

THE DREAMER, for a long-overdue single-author collection. Also

included here is their father-son posthumous collaboration, “The

Mists of Death.”

W. PAUL COOK: The Wandering Life of a Yankee Printer (With Selected

Writings)

Edited By Sean Donnelly

ISBN-13: 978-0-9771734-6-4

August 2007: pp: $15.00

W. Paul Cook is remembered most often as a friend of H. P. Lovecraft;

and so he has lingered posthumously in the shadow of his famous

friend. He labored with love for half a century as a printer,

publisher, editor, and author; the pleasure of the work itself was

often the only reward for his labors. The purpose of this book is to

place Cook in his own light; to illuminate his own talents as a

writer of fiction, essays, and poetry; as a publisher and printer;

and as a sincere exponent of amateur journalism. We will re-open the

door, as best we can, to understand and appreciate the life of a

modest man who styled himself an ordinary printer, but whom friends

called “the Colossus of the North” and a “sterling patron of weird

literature.”