I was sent ye ARC of The Annotated Fungi from Yuggoth ---& I cannot speak too much about ye book because it is still a work in progress and not yet available for pre-order from ye publisher. But--Great Yuggoth!--it is such a cool edition, utterly sublime & definitive. Hippocampus Press will probably publish it in handsome hardcover format early next year. One of ye highlights of ye book, for me, is that each page of Lovecraft's holograph manuscript has been photograph'd & printed; and, once again, I am rather happy that I never had ye yearning to be an editor of Lovecraft's texts. I mean, check it out: Lovecraft wrote Fungi from Yuggoth in the week between December 27 and January 4, 1928--so that had me imagining that he sat down at his desk and easily spill'd forth his sonnets onto paper, that the entire thing was a simple and fast affair. But as ye can see above, he freaking slaved over ye writing of ye poem--for each handwritten origina...
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