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Marginalia (collection)

Marginalia
Marginalia lovecraft.jpg
Dust-jacket illustration by Virgil Finlay for Marginalia
Author H. P. Lovecraft
Cover artist Virgil Finlay
Country United States
Language English
Genre Fantasy, Horror, Science fiction short stories, essay, biography, poetry
Publisher Arkham House
Publication date
1944
Media type Print (hardback)
Pages x, 377 pp

Marginalia is a collection of Fantasy, Horror and Science fiction short stories, essays, biography and poetry by and about the American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was released in 1944 and was the third collection of Lovecraft's work published by Arkham House. 2,035 copies were printed.

The contents of this volume were selected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. The dust-jacket art is a reproduction of Virgil Finlay's illustration for Lovecraft's story "The Shunned House."

Marginalia contains the following:

New York Times reviewer Marjorie Farber said Marginalia "should cause intense satisfaction among the disciples of the late great Master of Necrology", commenting that Lovecraft's "whole career seems an effective protest against 'natural laws', against genuine scholarship and against literary craftsmanship".E. F. Bleiler noted that "The guest memoirs and essays are of varying interest", but that "Lovecraft's fiction is juvenile or minor. His essays are more significant". Lovecraft bibliographer Francis T. Laney described the volume as "a glorified fan magazine in book format. . . . [presenting] an unforgettable composite view of Lovecraft as a man".


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