S. T. Joshi is the preeminent speculative fiction editor, critic, author, and authority on H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, H. L. Mencken, and other writers, mostly in the realms of supernatural and fantasy fiction. His 350 publications include such critical studies as The Weird Tale, The Modern Weird Tale, Atheism: A Reader, and most recently The Progression of the Weird Tale. His award-winning 1996 biography, H. P. Lovecraft: A Life became the instant standard on Lovecraft, and was expanded to two volumes and published in 2010 under the title I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft. Joshi’s fiction includes the recent novella Something from Below from PS Publishing, and Back from the Dead: Early Fiction and Poetry from Sarnath Press.

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Website: http://stjoshi.org/

Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/S.-T.-Joshi/e/B000AP8NIG

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