Conversations with the Weird Tale Circle
- Written by Jerad Walters
- ISBN: 9781933618647
- Format: Hardcover, 754pp
- Publish Date: August 1, 2009
- Dimensions: 7" x 12"
- Original Price: US$225
- Genre: Horror Weird Fiction
- Publication Type: Anthology
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About
Conversations with the Weird Tales Circle is a massive, oversize, celebration of the lives of H. P Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E oward, Frank Belknap Long, Seabury Quinn, E.Hoffmann Price, Henry Kuttner, C. L oore, Lee Brown Coye, Hannes Bok, August Derleth, Edmond Hamilton, Manly Wade Wellman, Fritz Leiber, Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Donald Wandrei, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, and many others Each writer has their own section in the book, complete with a custom drawing of the author by noted artist Alex McVey.
He sections contain letters and essays by the writers, with many interviews and memoirs about the writers, often by other writers from the Circle With dozens of color and black & white photographs, and many of the articles never before reprinted (several coming from 1930s and 1940s fanzines that are now very difficult to find), this is an important and illuminating look at a group of people that defined an era here is also a lengthy article on Weird Tales cover art with full-color reprints on nearly fifty Weird Tales covers, many of them printed at full page size.
Essential for every fantasy and horror fan he book is a large sewn hardcover measuring 7 × 12 inches, over two inches thick, with 754 pages, with an image by Stephen Hickman printed on the front cover cloth, and black cloth on the spines and back The book is rounded, with head and tail bands, and a ribbon marker, with black endsheets.
Edition Details
- Limited to 200 copies.
- Original portraits of all major authors by Alex McVey.
- Loaded with color and black & white illustrations.
- Color reproductions of many Weird Tales covers.
- Ribbon marker, head and tail bands, printed cloth panel, three-piece cloth construction.
Contents:
- H. P. Lovecraft
- HPL: A Reminiscence
- One Day in the Life of H. P. Lovecraft
- The Importance of Being Lovecraft
- Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- Recollections of H. P. Lovecraft
- Clark Ashton Smith
- Clark Ashton Smith
- The Validity of Weird Stories
- On H.P. Lovecraft
- On H.P. Lovecraft [2]
- On H.P. Lovecraft [3]
- In Appreciation of William Hope Hodgson
- As I Remember Klarkash-ton
- Memories of Klarkash-Ton
- Robert E. Howard
- Two-Gun Musketeer: Robert E. Howard's Weird Tales
- Frank Belknap Long
- Frank Belknap Long Interviewed
- Letter to Harry O. Morris, June 20, 1972
- Letter to Harry O. Morris, August 14, 1976
- Frank Belknap Long Interviewed
- Frank Belknap Long on the Pulps
- Frank Belknap Long Interviewed
- E. Hoffmann Price
- Far Lands, Other Days
- Letter to Harry O. Morris, Jr., March 13, 1980
- Letter to Harry Morris, Jr., March 7, 1976
- Letter to Harry Morris, Jr., September 7, 1974
- Letter to Harry O. Morris, Jr., May 24, 1981
- Letter to Harry Morris, Jr., July 1, 1976
- Letter to Harry Morris, July 27, 1978
- Ray Bradbury
- Bradbury Revisited
- Ray Bradbury Interviewed
- Robert Bloch
- Letter to Nyctalops, August 17, 1974
- Robert Bloch Interviewed
- Letter to Harry Morris, Jr., July 28, 1973
- Robert Bloch Interviewed
- Time Travelling with H. P. Lovecraft: The First World Fantasy Convention
- Robert Bloch on Weird Tales
- Robert Bloch Interviewed
- Fritz Leiber
- The Haunting of Providence: The First World Fantasy Convention
- Fritz Leiber Interviewed
- Letter from Fritz Leiber
- Hannes Bok
- Hannes Bok Looks at Fantasy, Art & Illustration
- Memories of Hannes Bok
- A Truly Remarkable Man
- Yiggitzers: A Memory
- Joseph Payne Brennan
- Letter to Harry O. Morris, Jr., August 10, 1971
- Joseph Payne Brennan Interviewed
- Letter to Harry O. Morris, Jr., April 10, 1972
- My Skirmish with Weird Tales
- Letter to Harry Morris, Jr., July 7, 1974
- Carl Jacobi
- Rambling Memoirs
- Salute to an "Evil Lord"
- A More Northern Derleth
- Manly Wade Wellman
- Fifty Years of Weird Tales
- Manly Wade Wellman Interviewed
- Manly Wade Wellman Interviewed
- Manly Wade Wellman Interviewed
- Lee Brown Coye
- Weirdisms: Vampires
- Lee Brown Coye on Weird Tales
- Lee Brown Coye: An Appreciation
- C.L. Moore & Henry Kuttner
- C.L. Moore Interviewed
- Henry Kuttner on Henry Kuttner
- Kuttner Recalled
- C.L. Moore Interviewed
- Henry Kuttner: A Memoir
- My Friend, Henry Kuttner
- My Friend, Hank Kuttner
- August Derleth
- August Derleth
- I Remember Derleth
- Letter to Sam Moskowitz, November 19, 1946
- Letter to Sam Moskowitz, December 30, 1970
- Letter to August Derleth, Jr., October 15, 1925
- Letter to August Derleth, December 9, 1925
- The Contributions of August Derleth to the Supernatural Horror Story
- David H. Keller
- David H. Keller on David H. Keller
- Mary Elizabeth Counselman
- Mary Elizabeth Counselman Interviewed
- Arthur J. Burks
- The Speed Merchant of the Pulps
- Edmond Hamilton
- Edmond Hamilton
- He That Hath Words
- Edmond Hamilton: A Memoir
- Edmond Hamilton
- Farnsworth Wright
- Farnsworth Wright
- Donald Wandrei
- Letter to Harry O. Morris, Jr., September 15, 1982
- Donald Wandrei
- Letter to Harry O. Morris, Jr., April 10, 1979
- Letter to Harry O. Morris, Jr., October 22, 1985
- Donald Wandrei: A Haunted House
- Jack Williamson
- Jack Williamson Interviewed
- World of Weird
- Hugh B. Cave
- Hugh B. Cave Interviewed
- H. Warner Munn
- H. Warner Munn Interviewed
- Writing for Weird Tales
- Seabury Quinn
- Seabury Grandin Quinn
- Weird Tales Cover Artists
- Other Voices
- Letter to Harry O. Morris, Jr., January 22, 1976
- The Lovecraft Circle
- The Man Who Was W. Paul Cook
- "The Last Man Mess"
- Greye La Spina on Weird Tales
- Robert Barbour Johnson on Weird Tales
- Henry St Clair Whitehead
- The Forgotten Creator of Weird Tales
- Everil Worrell
- Amelia Reynolds Long
- The First World Fantasy Convention
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External Links
- Conversations with the Weird Tale Circle. Centipede Press page for Conversations with the Weird Tale Circle
- Jerad Walters (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Jerad Walters