Weird Words: A Lovecraftian Lexicon, by Dan Clore, published by Hippocampus Press, is now available.
Eldritch . . . cacodaemoniacal . . . lucubration . . . Have you ever wondered about the meaning of these and other esoteric words used by Lovecraft and his colleagues? In this Cyclopean dictionary, the product of aeons of erudition and research into the most recondite recesses of literature, Dan Clore not only defines thousands of words found in the work of A. Merritt, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, and many others in the weird fantasy tradition, but supplies their etymologies and, most impressively, provides parallel usages of the words from centuries of English usage, citing authors ranging from Cotton Mather to Henry Kuttner, from Edmund Spenser to William S. Burroughs, from Edgar Allan Poe to Robert Anton Wilson. This is a volume that scholars of English usage, enthusiasts of fantasy and horror literature, and readers who love the beauty of the English language will find richly rewarding . . . either to read from beginning to end or to dip into as the mood strikes them.
Dan Clore is a freelance writer and scholar whose works are well known to fans of H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), a noted and influential author of weird fiction. Mr. Clore's publishing credits include critical essays in Lovecraft Studies, Studies in Weird Fiction, Necrofile; the Review of Horror Fiction, Weird Times, the anthologies A Century Less a Dream: Selected Criticism of H.P. Lovecraft, The Freedom of Fantastic Things: Selected Criticism on Clark Ashton Smith, and Super
