Miscellaneous Writings (Lovecraft)

Miscellaneous Writings is a collection of short stories,

• "Introduction", by
  S.T. Joshi
• I. Dreams and Fancies
  • "The Little Glass Bottle"
  • "The Secret Cave"
  • "The Mystery of the Grave-Yard"
  • "The Mysterious Ship"
  • "A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson"
  • "Old Bugs"
  • "Memory"
  • "Nyarlathotep"
  • "Ex Oblivione"
  • "What the Moon Brings"
  • "Sweet Ermengarde"
  • "The Very Old Folk"
  • "History of the Necronomicon"
  • "Ibid"
  • Discarded Draft of "
    The Shadow Over Innsmouth
    "
  • "The Battle That Ended the Century" (with R.H. Barlow)
  • "Collapsing Cosmoses" (with R.H. Barlow)
  • "The Challenge From Beyond" (with
    C.L. Moore, A. Merritt, Robert E. Howard and Frank Belknap Long
    ) [only Lovecraft's contribution to the story]
• II. The Weird Fantasist
  • "Commonplace Book"
  • "Lord Dunsany and His Work"
  • "Notes on Writing Weird Fiction"
  • "Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction"
  • "In Memoriam: Robert E. Howard"
• III. Mechanistic Materialist
  • "Idealism and Materialism—A Reflection"
  • "Life for Humanity's Sake"
  • "In Defense of Dagon"
  • "Nietzscheism and Realism"
  • "The Materialist Today"
  • "Some Causes of Self-Immolation"
  • "Heritage or Modernism: Common Sense in Art Forms"
• IV. Literary Critic
  • "Metrical Regularity"
  • "The Vers Libre Epidemic"
  • "The Case for Classicism"
  • "Literary Composition"
  • "Ars Gratia Artis"
  • "The Poetry of Lilian Middleton"
  • "Rudis Indigestaque Moles"
  • "In the Editor's Study"
  • "The Professional Incubus"
  • "The Omnipresent Philistine"
  • "What Belongs in Verse"
• V. Political Theorist
  • "The Crime of the Century"
  • "More Chain Lightning"
  • "Old England and the 'Hyphen'"
  • "Revolutionary Mythology"
  • "Americanism"
  • "The League"
  • "Bolshevism"
  • "Some Repetitions on the Times"
• VI. Antiquarian Travels
  • "Vermont—A First Impression"
  • "Observations on Several Parts of America"
  • "Travels in the Provinces of America"
  • "An Account of Charleston"
  • "Some Dutch Footprints in New England"
  • "Homes and Shrines of Poe"
• VII. Amateur Journalist
  • "In a Major Key"
  • "The Dignity of Journalism"
  • "Symphony and Stress"
  • "United Amateur Press Association: Exponent of Amateur Journalism"
  • "A Reply to The Lingerer"
  • "Les Mouches fantastiques"
  • "For What Does the United Stand?"
  • "Amateur Journalism: Its Possible Needs and Betterment"
  • "What Amateurdom and I have Done for Each Other"
  • "Lucubrations Lovecraftian"
  • "A Matter of Uniteds"
  • "Mrs. Miniter—-Estimates and Recollections"
  • "Some Current Motives and Practices"
• VIII. Epistolarian
  • "Trans-Neptunian Planets"
  • "The Earth Not Hollow"
  • "To The All-Story Weekly"
  • "Science versus Charlatanry"
  • "The Fall of Astrology"
  • "To Edwin Baird"
  • "To Edwin Baird"
  • "The Old Brick Row"
  • "To Nils H. Frome"
• IX. Personal
  • "The Brief Autobiography of an Inconsequential Scribbler"
  • "Within the Gates"
  • "A Confession of Unfaith"
  • "Commercial Blurbs"
  • "Cats and Dogs"
  • "Some Notes on a Nonentity"
• "Bibliography"

References

• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. pp. 59–60.
• ISBN 0-87054-176-5
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• Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 139–141.
  ISBN 0-7864-1785-4
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