Lovecraft

A Biography

by L. Sprague de Camp

Ballantine Books, New York. August 1976. Mass market paperback. 480 pages. (4¼ X 7). Preface by the author. De Camp does a fine biography on the life and writings of Lovecraft. The Ballantine edition is greatly abridged, with the removable of about 13,000 words. The notes, bibliography, and index were also dropped from this edition.

Scan and Commentary by Bob Gaines