[eldritch00]

This is a wonderful anthology, not just for the fiction included but for Joshi's insightful editorial comments. I'd like to mention--only because no one has yet--Jackson's tale, which is one of my favorite short stories.

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It is nice to see TL in Penguin Classics. A few other authors that Joshi speculates could "..survive the relentless winnowing of posterity" are Caitlin R. Kiernan and Norman Partridge. I am unfamiliar with the work of these two authors. I will have to remedy that.

I haven't read much Partridge, but I can wholeheartedly recommend Kiernan. Every single work of hers I've loved, but for those new to her work, To Charles Fort, with Love is a solid collection of short fiction. Many say that her first collection Tales of Pain and Wonder is superior, but I've yet to read that. Thankfully, Subterranean is reissuing it.

I must also say that Kiernan's background in paleontology lends a scientific feel to her work, while at the same time her treatment of the supernatural borders on the mythic. I've always considered this combination a key to her success as an author capable of working in an original way the cosmic horror that Lovecraft specialized in.

The Dry Salvages is a short science fiction novel--partly set in a spaceship in a tale of First Contact--that I would consider truly Lovecraftian. I've always enjoyed the more SF side of HPL, and The Dry Salvages certainly fits the bill.