Joshi traces Lovecraft's life and describes how Lovecraft was engaged in the political, economic, social and intellectual currents of his time, and how Lovecraft's developing thought informed his fiction and other writings. Lovecraft's reaction to World War I, the Jazz Age, and …
A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists. This volume gathers the most celebrated and significant of Bierce's writings. In the Mids…
by Joshi, S. T., Bierce, Ambrose, Bierce, Ambrose
A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists. This volume gathers the most celebrated and significant of Bierce's writings. In the Mids…
Mencken weighs 172 pounds, is 5 feet 10 inches in height and not beautiful. His chief amusement, after reading, is piano-playing, this he does very crudely. He takes no exercise except walking and is a moderate eater and drinker. He sometimes drinks as little as one bottle of be…
