O Fortunate Floridian

Tampa: University of Tampa Press, 2008. First edition, Hardcover, Limited, Fine in Fine dust jacket,. Timothy Kennedy. Tampa: University of Tampa Press:, 2008. First edition, Hardcover, Limited, Fine in Fine dust jacket, 504 pp.<br/> Cover artwork by: Timothy Kennedy This edition limited to 500 copies. "Joshi and Schultz, the leading scholars of Howard Phillips Lovecraft's life and work, have assembled all of Lovecraft's letters to his friend, Robert H. Barlow of DeLand, Florida, in this impressive volume. Though the two corresponded for only seven years, Lovecraft's side of the exchange totals nearly 500 pages. The editors have annotated the letters exhaustively, clarifying hundreds of references to people, places, literary works, and history. Their long introduction provides the reader with the essential story of the friendship between Lovecraft and Barlow, and their relationships with friends and colleagues in the worlds of amateur journalism, fandom, pulp fiction, and others."