Something About Cats and Other Pieces
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Something About Cats and Other Pieces
H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth (Ed.)
1949 Sauk City, WI: Arkham House

Abstract

Collection of additional Lovecraft materials - revisions, essays, notes and discarded drafts, and poems. A selection of memoirs fills out the volume.

Contents

  1. A Prefatory Note by August Derleth, vii-ix
  2. Something About Cats by H. P. Lovecraft, 3-18

Revisions

  1. The Invisible Monster by H. P. Lovecraft and Sonia H. Greene, 19-25
  2. Four O'Clock by H. P. Lovecraft and Sonia H. Greene, 26-30
  3. The Horror in the Burying Ground by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald, 31-45
  4. The Last Test by H. P. Lovecraft and Adolphe de Castro, 46-95
  5. The Electric Executioner by H. P. Lovecraft and Adolphe de Castro, 96-116
  6. Satan's Servants by Robert Bloch (notes and commentaries by H. P. Lovecraft), 117-147

Essays

  1. The Despised Pastoral, 148-149
  2. Time and Space, 149-150
  3. Merlinus Redivivus, 151-152
  4. At the Root, 153-155
  5. The Materialist Today, 156-159
  6. Vermont: A First Impression, 160-164
  7. The Battle That Ended the Century, 165-169

Notes

  1. For The Shadows Over Innsmouth, 170-175
  2. Discarded Draught of The Shadow Over Innsmouth, 176-183
  3. For At the Mountains of Madness, 184-189
  4. For The Shadow Out of Time, 190

Poems

  1. Phaeton, 191
  2. August, 191-192
  3. Death, 192-193
  4. To the American Flag, 193
  5. To a Youth, 194-195
  6. My Favorite Character, 195-196
  7. To Templeton and Mount Monadnock, 197
  8. The House, 198-199
  9. The City, 199-201
  10. The Poe-et's Nightmare, 201-203
  11. Aletheia Phrikodes, 204-211
  12. Sir Thomas Tryout, 211-212
  13. Lament for the Vanished Spider, 213-214
  14. Regnar Lodbrug's Epicedium, 215-217

Something About H. P. Lovecraft

  1. A Memoir of Lovecraft by Rheinhart Kleiner, 218-228
  2. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Loveman) by Samuel Loveman, 229-233
  3. Lovecraft as I knew Him by Sonia H. Davis, 234-246
  4. Lovecraft's Sensitivity by August Derleth, 247-251
  5. Lovecraft's Conservative by August Derleth, 252-277
  6. The Man Who Was Lovecraft by E. Hoffmann Price, 278-289
  7. A Literary Copernicus by Fritz Leiber, Jr., 290-303
  8. Providence: Two Gentlemen Meet at Midnight by August Derleth, 304-305
  9. HPL by Vincent Starrett, 306

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