H. P. Lovecraft: A Critical Study (Classics of Lovecraft Criticism Book 1)
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203 . Lovecraft, Selected Letters, 2.95–96, 25 December 1926, to August Derleth.
204 . Lovecraft, Selected Letters, 2.315, 8 March 1929, to Elizabeth Toldridge. In the Arkham House text of the letter, “any” is mistranscribed as “my.” I am indebted to S. T. Joshi for pointing out this discrepancy to me with regard to the holograph letter at the John Hay Library at Brown University.
205 . Lovecraft, Selected Letters, 5.353, 15 November 1936, to Fritz Leiber.
206 . Lord Dunsany, The Gods of Pegāna, p. 91.
207 . Lord Dunsany, The Gods of Pegāna, p. 3.
208 . Lord Dunsany, The Gods of Pegāna, p. 9.
209 . Also, Dunsany uses the name Alhireth-Hotep (cf. Nyarlathotep) and the name Yug (cf.Yog-Sothoth); The Gods of Pegāna, p. 57.
210 . Lord Dunsany, The Book of Wonder, p. 35.
211 . Lord Dunsany, The Book of Wonder, p. 103.
212 . Lord Dunsany, A Dreamer’s Tales, p. 125.
213 . See also Mollie L. Werba (Burleson), “H. P. Lovecraft and Arthur Machen: A Comparison,” in Night Gaunts, No.3, 31 October 1979, published for the Esoteric Order of Dagon Amateur Press Association; John Hay Library, Brown University. This article correctly concludes that Machen was not a major stylistic influence on Lovecraft.
214 . Lovecraft, Selected Letters, 1.234, 3 June 1923, to Frank Belknap Long.
215 . Lovecraft, Selected Letters, 3.439, 9 December 1931, to J. Vernon Shea.
216 . Lovecraft, Selected Letters, 3.174, 4 October 1930, to Robert E. Howard.
217 . Lovecraft, Selected Letters, 3.429, 30 October 1931, to J. Vernon Shea.
218 . Arthur Machen, Tales of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 61–115. All further references to Machen are to this volume.
219 . Machen, pp. 116–54.
220 . Machen, pp. 43–60.
221 . Machen, p. 55.
222 . For a discussion of some of the many minor influences on Lovecraft, see J. Vernon Shea, “On the Literary Influences Which Shaped Lovecraft’s Works,” in H. P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism, pp. 113–38.