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Sunand Tryambak Joshi (b. 22 June 1958 in Pune, India) ... known as S. T. Joshi ... is an award-winning Indian American literary critic, novelist, and a leading figure in the study of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and other authors of weird and fantastic fiction. Besides having written what critics such as Harold Bloom and Joyce Carol Oates consider to be the definitive biography of Lovecraft (A Life, 1996), Joshi has prepared (with David E. Schultz) several annotated editions of works by Ambrose Bierce. He has also written on crime novelist John Dickson Carr and on Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood and M. R. James, and has edited collections of their works, as well as collections of the best work of several other weird writers. He is a significant bibliographer, having compiled bibliographies of Lovecraft, Bierce, Dunsany, Ramsey Campbell and William Hope Hodgson and (forthcoming) Ray Bradbury and Clark Ashton Smith. He has been general editor of the Horror Classics series for Dover Publications. Most recently he has turned his attention to collecting and editing the works of H. L. Mencken. He currently resides in Seattle, Washington.

Literary criticism

Joshi discovered Lovecraft when he was 13 in the public library in Muncie, Indiana. He read L. Sprague de Camp's biography of Lovecraft on publication in 1975 and began thereafter to devote himself to the study of Lovecraft, guided in this by scholars such as Dirk W. Mosig, J. Vernon Shea and George Wetzel. He also wrote some Lovecraftian fiction such as the story "The Recurring Doom", which can be found in Robert M. Price's anthology Acolytes of Cthulhu.

Joshi elected to become a freshman at Brown University primarily because of the holdings of Lovecraft books and manuscripts in the John Hay Library. He later did graduate work at Princeton University. Having become a leading scholar of H.P. Lovecraft, he devoted years of research consulting manuscripts and early publications in preparing corrected editions of Lovecraft's collected fiction, revisions and miscellaneous writings in collaboration with Jim Turner for Arkham House; they were published in five volumes between 1984 and 1995.

His literary criticism is notable for its emphases upon readability and the dominant worldviews of the authors in question. His The Weird Tale looks at six acknowledged masters of horror and fantasy (namely Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Dunsany, M. R. James, Bierce and Lovecraft), and discusses their respective worldviews in depth and with authority. Aside from his biography of Lovecraft, Joshi regards this book as his most notable achievement to date.

A follow-up volume, The Modern Weird Tale, examines the work of modern writers, including Shirley Jackson, Ramsey Campbell, Stephen King, Robert Aickman, Thomas Ligotti, T. E. D. Klein and others, from a similar philosophically oriented viewpoint.

The third of what amounts to a critical trilogy on the weird tale, The Evolution of the Weird Tale (2004), includes essays on Dennis Etchison, L. P. Hartley, Les Daniels, E. F. Benson, Rudyard Kipling, David J. Schow, Robert Bloch, L. P. Davies, Edward Lucas White, Rod Serling, Poppy Z. Brite and others.

Magazines Edited

In 1987 Joshi became the fifth Official Editor of the EOD amateur press association (see Esoteric Order of Dagon), an organisation devoted to the study of H.P. Lovecraft particularly but which also examines weird and fantasy fiction in all its forms. Joshi has maintained this role for over twenty years and is currently still Official Editor.

Joshi edited the journals Lovecraft Studies (1979—2001) and Studies in Weird Fiction (1986—2005), both published by Necronomicon Press; and Studies in the Fantastic (2008—09), published by the University of Tampa Press. He is also the editor of Weird Fiction Review (Centipede Press, 2010-), and Lovecraft Annual (2007- ) and co-editor of Dead Reckonings (2007 - ), journals published by Hippocampus Press.

Editions of Lovecraft's Letters

Joshi and his edtorial collaborator David E. Schultz have edited many volumes of Lovecraft's letters to individuals - for Necronomicon Press (including those to Richard F. Searight, Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner, Samuel Loveman and Vincent Starrett); for Night Shade Books (Mysteries of Time and Spirit: Letters to Donald Wandrei) and Letters from New York; and for University of Tampa Press (O Fortunate Floridian: Letters to Robert H. Barlow),

Joshi and David E. Schultz are now progressively issuing volumes of H.P. Lovecraft's letters to individual correspondents through Hippocampus Press. Volumes already issued include Lovecraft's letters to Rheinhardt Kleiner, Alfred Galpin, August Derleth(2 vols) and Robert E. Howard(2 vols). There may be twenty or more volumes of Lovecraft's letters in this series. The next issued are likely to be Lovecraft's letters to James F. Morton (forthcoming, 2010), probably followed by those to Clark Ashton Smith.

Other Work including Volumes Forthcoming

Joshi edited the five-volume set of Lovecraft's Collected Essays issued by Hippocampus Press from 2004-2007. He edited two annotated volumes of Lovecraft's best work for Dell books (the second with Peter H. Cannon).

Joshi and David E. Schultz edited the collected poetry of Clark Ashton Smith, issued by Hippocampus Press (3 vols) (2007—2008), Joshi is working on the collected poetry of George Sterling.

Forthcoming works (some of which are discussed on Joshi's blog at his official website - see below) also include Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (to be published in two volumes, 2011 & 2012 by PS Publishing); and Encyclopedia of the Vampire (Greenwood Press); Horror Fiction Index; The Unbelievers: The Evolution of Modern Atheism; a three-volume edition of the letters of Ambrose Bierce; bibliographies of William Hope Hodgson (with Sam Gafford and Mike Ashley) and of Clark Ashton Smith; The White People and Other Weird Tales by Arthur Machen(for Penguin Classics); Essential Writings by Ambrose Bierce (Library of America, forthcoming 2011); a comprehensive bibliography of Ray Bradbury (with Jon Eller); a revised/updated edition of the Ramsey Campbell bibliography The Core of Ramsey Campbell; and an edition of the correspondence between Ramsey Campbell and August Derleth.

Hippocampus Press has announced their new two-volume edition of his unabridged Lovecraft biography (in excess of 500,000 words), to appear August 2010 (as I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H.P. Lovecraft); this restores 150,000 words cut for space reasons from the original edition, and is also thoroughly revised and updated in regard to new information on Lovecraft that has come to light since 1996. Joshi will also edit an exhaustively annotated edition of Lovecraft's work for Bloodletting Press, to appear in two volumes (2011 and 2012). Hippocampus Press will release Joshi's compilation of early Lovecraft criticism, A Weird Writer in Our Midst

Joshi is general editor of a new line of original Cthulhu Mythos works from Perilous Press, including works by Michael Shea and Brian Stableford. The first publication was Shea's Copping Squid and Other Mythos Tales (2009).

Joshi has been asked by film director Guillermo del Toro to act as a consultant on del Toro's long-mooted film project, a cinematic version of Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. Del Toro will also contribute an introduction to Joshi's edition of Arthur Machen's tales for Penguin Classics.

Joshi is also working on editions of work by Robert Aickman (including Aickman's unpublished novel Go Back at Once), Maurice Level and John Metcalfe. He will be editing Black Wings II, a further anthology of Lovecraftian stories by modern authors for PS Publishing.

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Total Books: 73
The Unbelievers The Evolution of Modern Atheism
2011 - The Unbelievers the Evolution of Modern Atheism (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781616142360
ISBN-10: 1616142367
Genre: Religion & Spirituality
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Ten Years of Hippocampus Press 2000-2010
2010 - Ten Years of Hippocampus Press 2000-2010 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780984480289
ISBN-10: 0984480285
Genre: Education & Reference
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Conspiracy of Silence A Joe Scintilla Mystery / Tragedy at Sarsfield Manor A Joe Scintilla Mystery
2010 - Conspiracy of Silence a Joe Scintilla Mystery / Tragedy at Sarsfield Manor a Joe Scintilla Mystery [Wildside Mystery Double #1] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781434411969
ISBN-10: 1434411966
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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The Removal Company A Joe Scintilla Historical Mystery Novel
2010 - The Removal Company a Joe Scintilla Historical Mystery Novel (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781434411693
ISBN-10: 1434411699
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
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I Am Providence The Life and Times of H P Lovecraft
2010 - I Am Providence the Life and Times of H P Lovecraft [2 VOLUMES] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780982429679
ISBN-10: 0982429673
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
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H P Lovecraft A Comprehensive Bibliography
2009 - H P Lovecraft a Comprehensive Bibliography (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781597320696
ISBN-10: 1597320692
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Junk Fiction America's Obsession with Bestsellers
2009 - Junk Fiction America's Obsession with Bestsellers (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781434457134
ISBN-10: 1434457133
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Studies in the Fantastic
2009 - Studies in the Fantastic [No. 2] (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781597320580
ISBN-10: 1597320587
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Classics and Contemporaries Some Notes on Horror Fiction
2009 - Classics and Contemporaries Some Notes on Horror Fiction (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780981488837
ISBN-10: 0981488838
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos
2008 - The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780978991180
ISBN-10: 0978991184
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Education & Reference, Science Fiction & Fantasy
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The Agnostic Reader
2007 - The Agnostic Reader (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781591025337
ISBN-10: 1591025338
Genre: Religion & Spirituality
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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Icons of Horror and the Supernatural An Encyclopedia of Our Worst Nightmares Volume 1
2006 - Icons of Horror and the Supernatural an Encyclopedia of Our Worst Nightmares Volume 1 [Greenwood Icons] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780313337819
ISBN-10: 0313337810
Genre: Education & Reference
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Icons of Horror and the Supernatural An Encyclopedia of Our Worst Nightmares Volume 2
2006 - Icons of Horror and the Supernatural an Encyclopedia of Our Worst Nightmares Volume 2 [Greenwood Icons] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780313337826
ISBN-10: 0313337829
Genre: Education & Reference
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The Angry Right Why Conservatives Keep Getting It Wrong
2006 - The Angry Right Why Conservatives Keep Getting It Wrong (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781591024637
ISBN-10: 1591024633
Genre: Nonfiction
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
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The Shadow of the Unattained The Letters of George Sterling and Clark Ashton Smith
2005 - The Shadow of the Unattained the Letters of George Sterling and Clark Ashton Smith (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780974878935
ISBN-10: 0974878936
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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The Dreams in the Witch House  And Other Weird Stories
2004 - The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories [Penguin Classics] (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780142437957
ISBN-10: 0142437956
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Teens, Horror
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The Evolution of the Weird Tale
2004 - The Evolution of the Weird Tale (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780974878928
ISBN-10: 0974878928
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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An H P Lovecraft Encyclopedia
2004 - An H P Lovecraft Encyclopedia (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780974878911
ISBN-10: 097487891X
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Education & Reference
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
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The Pleasures of a Futuroscope
2003 - The Pleasures of a Futuroscope (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780972164481
ISBN-10: 0972164480
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy
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The Weird Tale
2003 - The Weird Tale (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780809531226
ISBN-10: 0809531224
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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God's Defenders What They Believe and Why They Are Wrong
2003 - God's Defenders What They Believe and Why They Are Wrong (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781591020806
ISBN-10: 1591020808
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction, Christian Books & Bibles
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2002 - Lovecraft's Library a Catalogue [Revised and Enlarged] (Paperback)
2001 - Ramsey Campbell and Modern Horror Fiction [Liverpool University Press - Liverpool Science Fiction Texts Studies] (Hardcover)Paperback
1999 - Ambrose Bierce an Annotated Bibliography of Primary Sources [Bibliographies and Indexes in American Literature] (Hardcover)
1999 - Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories [Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics] (Hardcover)Paperback, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
1995 - Lord Dunsany Master of the Anglo-irish Imagination [Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy] (Hardcover)Hardcover
1982 - Hp Lovecraft [Starmont Reader's Guide ; 13] (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover
Hp Lovecraft and Lovecraft Criticism an Annotated Bibliography [Serif Series : Bibliographies and Checklists, No. 38] (Hardcover)Hardcover