Hippocampus Press is an American publishing house focussing on the horror genre; according to trade magazine Publishers Weekly it is "the world’s leading publisher of books related to horror writer H. P. Lovecraft."
Overview[]
Established in 1999 by Derrick Hussey, Hippocampus Press publishes the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, as well as that of his literary circle and even some of his influences. In addition, they produce a number of periodicals and non-fiction works related to the horror genre, and have published a large selection of work from more contemporary authors such as Franklyn Searight, Ramsey Campbell, Ann K. Schwader and Thomas Ligotti, among others.
Hippocampus also publish a line titled Lovecraft's Library, which reprints "works that Lovecraft himself read and admired, and that he commented upon in his letters or elsewhere". Each of the books also features an introduction and commentary by scholars in the field [1].
Selected Publications[]
Periodicals[]
Works of the Lovecraft Circle[]
- The Annotated Supernatural in Horror Literature (H. P. Lovecraft)
- Collected Essays: Complete (H. P. Lovecraft)
- The Averoigne Circle (Clark Ashton Smith)
Contemporary Fiction[]
- The Strange Music of Erich Zann (R. Nemo Hill)
- Tales Out of Dunwich (various)
- Lair of the Dreamer: A Cthulhu Mythos Omnibus (Franklyn Searight)
- Inconsequential Tales (Ramsey Campbell)
- The Tindalos Cycle (various)
- The Assaults of Chaos: A Novel about H. P. Lovecraft (S. T. Joshi)
- Mr. Cannyharme (Michael Shea)
- Tales Out of Dunwich (various)
- An Exchange of Souls and Lazarus (2007 omnibus, Barry Pain and Henri Béraud)
- Through Dark Angles: Works Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft (2014, Don Webb)
- Dark Equinox and Other Tales of Lovecraftian Horror (2015, Ann K. Schwader)
- Cult of the Dead and Other Weird and Lovecraftian Tales (2015, Lois H. Gresh)
- Rapture of the Deep and Other Lovecraftian Tales (2016, Cody Goodfellow)
- Lovecraft Alive! (2016, John Shirley)
Non-Fiction[]
- Lovecraft's Library: A Catalogue (S. T. Joshi)
- Primal Sources: Essays on H. P. Lovecraft (S. T. Joshi)
- An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia (2001, S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz)
- Lovecraft's New York Circle: The Kalem Club, 1924-1927 (Mara Kirk Hart and S. T. Joshi)
- The Monster in the Mirror: Looking for H. P. Lovecraft (Robert H. Waugh)
- Weird Words: A Lovecraftian Lexicon (Dan Clore)
- I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft (2010, S. T. Joshi)
- A Weird Writer in Our Midst: Early Criticism of H. P. Lovecraft (2010, S. T. Joshi)
- A Monster of Voices: Speaking for H. P. Lovecraft (Robert H. Waugh)
References[]
- ↑ Lovecraft's Library at Hippocampus Press