The Spirit of Revision - Lovecraft's Letters to Zealia Brown Reed Bishop

Closeout Sale We're closing out the paperback version of The Spirit of Revision. Now's your chance to get a great deal on a great book. In 2014 a collection of letters from H.P. Lovecraft to Zealia Brown Reed Bishop was discovered in an old trunk in a basement. Mrs. Bishop was an aspiring young writer who became of a client of Lovecraft, making use of his service of revising and improving other author's stories to help them get published. In this collection of never before seen letters, we see how Lovecraft ran his business and how he mentored an aspiring writer. Lovecraft and Mrs. Bishop went on to collaborate on the stories "The Curse of Yig", "The Mound" and "Medusa's Coil". The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society has carefully scanned and transcribed the original manuscripts which date from 1927 to 1936. The thirty-six new letters to Mrs. Bishop are presented in sequence with eighteen previously known letters to create the most thorough picture of the correspondence between Lovecraft