Marginalia
| Author: | | H. P. Lovecraft. |
| Publisher: | | Arkham House, Sauk City, Wisconsin. |
| Date of publication: | | 1944. |
| Edition: | | Hardcover. |
| Number of pages: | | x plus 377 numbered pages. |
| Number of copies: | | 2035 copies printed, no reprints. |
| Original price: | | $3.00. |
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The illustrated dust jacket is a reproduction of Virgil Finlay's only illustration for H. P. Lovecraft's The Shunned House published in the 1937 October Weird Tales (seven months after the author's death). Publisher's black board covers with the spine lettered in gilt. Only as late as 2011 the illustration was first used on the cover of a book edition of The Shunned House.
Collected in this work are Howard Phillips Lovecraft's (1890 - 1937) lesser known tales including revised and ghostwritten material,
including science fiction, fantasy and horror stories, essays, poetry and elegies by and concerning H.P. Lovecraft, as selected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei.
Contents of Marginalia:
- Pages v - x: Foreword August Derleth and Donald Wandrei
- Pages 3 - 36: Imprisoned with the Pharaohs, by H. P. Lovecraft and Harry Houdini
- Pages 37 - 84: Medusa’s Coil, H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Brown Bishop
- Pages 85 - 115: Winged Death, by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald
- Pages 116 - 135: The Man of Stone, by H. P. Lovecraftand Hazel Heald
- Pages 135 - 139: Notes on Writing Weird Fiction
- Pages 140 - 147: Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction
- Pages 148 - 160: Lord Dunsany and His Work
- Pages 161 - 173: Heritage or Modernism: Common Sense in Art Forms
- Pages 174 - 183: Some Backgrounds of Fairyland
- Pages 184 - 198: Some Causes of Self-Immolation
- Pages 199 - 237: A Guide to Charleston, South Carolina, by H. P. Lovecraft and H. C. Koenig
- Pages 238 - 267: Observations on Several Parts of North America
- Pages 268 - 277: The Beast in the Cave
- Pages 276 - 284: The Transition of Juan Romero
- Page 285: Azathoth
- Pages 286 - 289: The Book
- Pages 290 - 293: The Descendant
- Pages 294 - 302: The Very Old Folk
- Pages 303 - 304: The Thing in the Moonlight
- Pages 305 - 308: Two Comments
- Pages 309 - 331: His Own Most Fantastic Creation, by Winfield Townley Scott
- Pages 332 - 337: Some Random Memories of H.P.L., by Frank Belknap Long
- Pages 338 - 341: H.P. Lovecraft: An Appreciation, by T. O. Mabbott
- Pages 342 - 350: The Wind That Is in the Grass: A Memoir of H.P. Lovecraft on Florida, by R. H. Barlow
- Pages 351 - 354: Lovecraft and Science, by Kenneth Sterling
- Pages 355 - 361: Lovecraft as a Formative Influence, by August Derleth
- Pages 362 - 369: The Dweller in Darkness: Lovecraft, 1927, by Donald Wandrei
- Page 370: To Howard Phillips Lovecraft, by Clark Ashton Smith
- Page 371: H.P.L., by Henry Kuttner
- Page 372: Lost Dream, by Emil Petaja
- Page 373: To Howard Phillips Lovecraft, by Francis Flagg
- Page 373: H.P. Lovecraft , by Frank Belknap Long, Jr.
- Page 374: Elegy: In Providence the Spring... , by August Derleth
- Page 375: For the Outsider: H.P. Lovecraft, by Charles E. White
- Page 376: In Memoriam: H.P. Lovecraft, by Richard Ely Morse