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Most of us know Kenneth W. Faig, Jr., as one of the leading
scholars on H. P. Lovecraft-a meticulous and indefatigable
researcher on obscurer corners of the Providence dreamer's life.
But over the past several decades, Faig has exhibited enviable
skill at fiction-especially fiction that draws upon his deep
knowledge of Lovecraft and weird fiction.
Edith Miniter (1867-1934), the shy, bookish young woman who
ventured into amateur journalism from Worcester, Massachusetts, in
1883 became the guiding spirit of Boston amateur journalists for
the thirty years she spent in that city; her friend H. P. Lovecraft
compared Mrs. Miniter's fiction with that of Jane Austen.
For decades, David Goudsward has been a leading authority on the obscurer historical and topographical corners of his native New England. In this lavish and detailed treatise, he has written the definitive treatment of Lovecraft's connections with the Merrimack Valley of coastal Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Goudsward traces Lovecraft's initial visits in the 1920s to such towns as Newburyport, Haverhill, and Hampstead, where he met such colleagues as Charles W. "Tryout" Smith, Myrta Alice Little, and Edgar J. Davis. Later visits clearly inspired many of the topographical features in such tales as "The Shadow over Innsmouth" and "The Shadow out of Time." Goudsward has made a profound study of Lovecraft's letters and other documents in tracing the Providence writer's movements in the area and the impressions he drew from it. This book is lavishly illustrated with dozens of photographs of the locale, including many vivid period snapshots that show the towns and other landmarks as they would have been seen by Lovecraft himself. Goudsward also treats the possibility that Lovecraft visited Mystery Hill, a megalithic site that some scholars believe inspired "The Dunwich Horror." "H. P. Lovecraft in the Merrimack Valley" is an exhaustive treatment of a subject that has rarely been discussed before, but that is of crucial importance to H. P. Lovecraft's life and imagination.
"It is difficult to realise that Mrs. Miniter is no longer a living presence; for the sharp insight, subtle wit, rich scholarship, and vivid literary force so fresh in one's memory are things savouring of the eternal and the indestructible. Of her charm and kindliness many will write reminiscently and at length. Of her genius, skill, courage, and determination, her work and career eloquently speak." --H. P. Lovecraft
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