![]() ![]() ![]() Lovecraft: A Life was awarded the 1997 Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction from the Horror Writers Association. Nick Mamatas is the author of seven novels, including Love is the Law, I Am Providence, and the forthcoming Hexen Sabbath.His short fiction has appeared in Best American Mystery Stories, Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, and many other venues. A Conversation with Nick Mamatas About Lovecrafts Legacy, Writing Conventions, and His New Novel I Am Providence. It was met with critical praise it elicited favorable comments from the horror author Ramsey Campbell and literary critic Harold Bloom, and received a long and favorable review in The New York Review of Books from author Joyce Carol Oates, who called it "the definitive biography". Lovecraft: A Life was regarded as a "meticulously researched" īiography of Lovecraft, taking account of all currently known facts about Lovecraft's life and work. According to his website, Joshi regards this book his most notable achievement to date, followed by his The Weird Tale. Sprague de Camp's Lovecraft: A Biography (1975). ![]() The book largely supplants earlier efforts such as L. Lovecraft) (2 vols) has been issued in 2010 ( Hippocampus Press) 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. The original one-volume edition was reissued in 2004, with a new afterword by Joshi.Ī new revised/uncut edition (as I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H.P. Joshi, first published by Necronomicon Press in 1996. ![]()
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