695.9 Plattsburg] A training camp for army officers was established at Plattsburg, New York, during World War I.

  716.19 lich] Corpse.

  724.28–29 Comte d’Erlette’s . . . Mysteriis] Robert Bloch (1917–1994) invented Cultes des Goules in his story “The Grinning Ghoul,” and attributed it to the Comte d’Erlette, a name Lovecraft used to refer to August Derleth in his correspondence. Bloch invented Ludvig Prinn in “The Secret in the Tomb,” in which he gave the title of Prinn’s book as Mysteries of the Worm; Lovecraft then devised a Latin version of the title.

  732.33–34 lepidodendra, and sigillaria] Lepidodendron and sigillaria were two genera of giant club moss trees that flourished during the Carboniferous period, 360 to 286 million years ago. They grew to over 100 feet in height.

  745.18 Tcho-Tchos] A cannibalistic race in the story “The Lair of the Star-Spawn” by August Derleth and Mark Schorer (1908–1977).

  745.24 empire of Tsan-Chan] Lovecraft had previously mentioned the empire of Tsan-Chan in his story “Beyond the Wall of Sleep” (1919).

  745.28–29 Lomar . . . Inutos] Lomar and the Inutos appeared in Lovecraft’s story “Polaris” (1918).

  745.33 the 14th Dynasty] The dynasty ruled part of the Nile Delta during the 17th century B.C.

  745.39 archimage] A great magician.

  746.2–3 Cimmerian] Cimmeria is the homeland of the warrior chieftain Conan in a series of stories by Robert E. Howard.

  747.34–35 rhamphorhynci] Rhamphorhyncus was a genus of Jurassic flying reptiles.

  751.15 Eltdown Shards as Yith] The Eltdown Shards were invented by Richard F. Searight (1902–1975) in his story “The Sealed Casket” (1934). Lovecraft suggested the name “Yith” to Duane Rimel for use in his poem cycle “Dreams of Yith” (1934).

  755.36 Warburton’s path of 1873] Colonel Peter Egerton Warburton (1813–1889) left Alice Springs in central Australia with six men and 17 camels on April 15, 1873. The expedition reached the Oakover River on December 5 and later made its way down the river to the northwestern coast.

  784.2 (Dedicated to Robert Bloch)] Lovecraft and Bloch began corresponding in 1933, and Bloch dedicated his story “The Shambler from the Stars,” published in Weird Tales in September 1935, to Lovecraft. The narrator of the story, a writer of weird fiction, obtains a copy of De Vermis Mysteriis (see note 724.28–29) and then travels to Providence to enlist the help of an unnamed older colleague, “a writer of notable brilliance and wide reputation among the discriminating few” with “long years of occult experience,” in translating the Latin text. Despite initial misgivings, the older writer invokes a spell from the book for summoning “unseen servitors from beyond the stars,” and is killed by an entity that drains his body of blood before disappearing.

  784.7 Nemesis.] A poem written by Lovecraft in 1917.

  792.18 Liber Ivonis] Lovecraft’s Latin title for the Book of Eibon; see note 655.11–12.

  792.22 Book of Dzyan] A purported ancient book that the theosophist Madame Blavatsky claimed to have studied in Tibet.

  797.38 Aklo] See note 399.22.

  798.19 Khem . . . Nephren-Ka] Khem is the name of an Egyptian god, and also a name for Egypt. The pharaoh Nephren-Ka was invented by Lovecraft.

  806.31 Yaddith] A planet first mentioned by Lovecraft in his sonnet cycle “Fungi from Yuggoth” (1929–30).

  807.8–9 620 East Knapp Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin] Robert Bloch’s address in 1935.

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  59. Sinclair Lewis: Main Street & Babbitt

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  76. Thomas Paine: Collected Writings

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  81. Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays

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  84. William Bartram: Travels and Other Writings

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  86. John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936–1941

  87. Vladimir Nabokov: Novels and Memoirs 1941–1951

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  133. Sinclair Lewis: Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth

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  163. Arthur Miller: Collected Plays 1944–1961

  164. William Faulkner: Novels 1926–1929

  165. Philip Roth: Novels 1973–1977

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  168. Hart Crane: Complete Poems & Selected Letters

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  172. Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays & Writings on Theater

  173. Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s

  174. Jack Kerouac: Road Novels 1957–1960

  175. Philip Roth: Zuckerman Bound

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  178. American Poetry: The Seventeenth & Eighteenth Centuries

  179. William Maxwell: Early Novels & Stories

  180. Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, & Letters

  181. A. J. Liebling: World War II Writings

  182. American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau

  183. Philip K. Dick: Five Novels of the 1960s & 70s

  184. William Maxwell: Later Novels & Stories

  185. Philip Roth: Novels & Other Narratives 1986–1991

  186. Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

  187. John Ashbery: Collected Poems 1956–1987

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  189. John Cheever: Complete Novels

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  191. A. J. Liebling: The Sweet Science & Other Writings

  192s. The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now

  193. Philip K. Dick: VALIS & Later Novels

  194. Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels 1926–1948

  195. Raymond Carver: C
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  196. American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps

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  198. John Marshall: Writings

  199. The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Works

  200. Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels

  201. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Journals 1820–1842

  202. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Journals 1841–1877

  203. The American Stage: Writing on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner

  204. Shirley Jackson: Novels & Stories

  205. Philip Roth: Novels 1993–1995

  206. H. L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

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  208. John Kenneth Galbraith: The Affluent Society and Other Writings 1952–1967

  209. Saul Bellow: Novels 1970–1982

  210. Lynd Ward: Gods’ Man, Madman’s Drum, Wild Pilgrimage

  211. Lynd Ward: Prelude to a Million Years, Song Without Words, Vertigo

  212. The Civil War: The First Year Told by Those Who Lived It

  213. John Adams: Revolutionary Writings 1755–1775

  214. John Adams: Revolutionary Writings 1775–1783

  215. Henry James: Novels 1903–1911

  216. Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1963–1973

  217. Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of the 1920s

  218. Harlem Renaissance: Four Novels of the 1930s

  219. Ambrose Bierce: The Devil’s Dictionary, Tales, & Memoirs

  220. Philip Roth: The American Trilogy 1997–2000

  221. The Civil War: The Second Year Told by Those Who Lived It

  222. Barbara W. Tuchman: The Guns of August & The Proud Tower

  223. Arthur Miller: Collected Plays 1964–1982

  224. Thornton Wilder: The Eighth Day, Theophilus North, Autobiographical Writings

  225. David Goodis: Five Noir Novels of the 1940s & 50s

  226. Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1950–1962

  227. American Science Fiction: Four Classsic Novels 1953–1956

  228. American Science Fiction: Five Classic Novels 1956–1958

  229. Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Little House Books, Volume One

  230. Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Little House Books, Volume Two

  231. Jack Kerouac: Collected Poems

  232. The War of 1812: Writings from America’s Second War of Independence

  233. American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation