(#176366) LETTERS FROM H. P. LOVECRAFT TO J. VERNON SHEA, JR. Nine handwritten letters, totaling 84 pages, written between 1931 and 1937, all of which are largely unpublished. Lovecraft.
LETTERS FROM H. P. LOVECRAFT TO J. VERNON SHEA, JR. Nine handwritten letters, totaling 84 pages, written between 1931 and 1937, all of which are largely unpublished.
LETTERS FROM H. P. LOVECRAFT TO J. VERNON SHEA, JR. Nine handwritten letters, totaling 84 pages, written between 1931 and 1937, all of which are largely unpublished.
LETTERS FROM H. P. LOVECRAFT TO J. VERNON SHEA, JR. Nine handwritten letters, totaling 84 pages, written between 1931 and 1937, all of which are largely unpublished.
LETTERS FROM H. P. LOVECRAFT TO J. VERNON SHEA, JR. Nine handwritten letters, totaling 84 pages, written between 1931 and 1937, all of which are largely unpublished.

LETTERS FROM H. P. LOVECRAFT TO J. VERNON SHEA, JR. Nine handwritten letters, totaling 84 pages, written between 1931 and 1937, all of which are largely unpublished. J. Vernon Shea (1912-1981), an aspiring writer whose correspondence with Lovecraft began when Shea was only 19 years old, "soon showed himself to be one of the most astute of Lovecraft's younger correspondents" (Cannon, Lovecraft Remembered, p. 348), not accepting Lovecraft's art-for-art's sake pose without question, and engaging him "in numerous involved (and at times heated) discussions on politics (especially concerning Hitler and the Nazis) and society" (Joshi and Schultz, An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia, p. 240). Shea published a few fantasy and science fiction stories, including several in anthologies edited by August Derleth published by Arkham House. In 1966 Shea published "H. P. Lovecraft: The House and the Shadows," a major critical article on HPL, in THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION. "Until his death in 1981, Shea remained active on the fringe of Lovecraft fandom as a somewhat lonely and curmudgeonly elder statesman, his intellectual curiosity and sense of humor undimmed" (Cannon). In the 1960s Shea donated what he believed to be all his letters from Lovecraft to the John Hay Library, but nine more letters found after his death were acquired by the Boston Book Annex who offered them for sale in their catalogue number 8 (January 1983). Purchased as a lot and privately held since that time, the nine letters were not available for transcription and publication in Lovecraft's Letters to J. Vernon Shea, Carl F. Strauch, and Lee McBride White, edited by S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz (Hippocampus Press, New York, 2016) who published brief excerpts made by Shea himself and passed on to August Derleth for inclusion in the Selected Letters project. Condition of the letters is very good to fine overall. The correspondence is enclosed in a custom quarter leather clamshell box. Providence: William A. Strutz collection. (#176366).

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