The Purpose of SLCAS
Posted by:
Scott Connors (IP Logged)
Date: 8 January, 2004 05:24AM
Well, folks, the wait is over (except for Boyd, whose copy hasn't been mailed yet--patience, mate!) By now most of you have received your copies of SELECTED LETTERS OF CAS. It is my hope that the publication of this material will have the same stimulating effect that the publication of Lovecraft's letters had on his study. In particular, note that there are at least three venues for scholarship on CAS to appear: one is S. T. Joshi's STUDIES IN WEIRD FICTION, which will probably resume publication as an annual; the next is a collection of scholarly/critical essays devoted to CAS (some reprint but mostly new) to be published in early 2005 by Hippocampus Press, edited by Yr Obt Servt; and a quarterly journal, LOST WORLDS, edited by myself and published by Seele-Brennt Publications (first issue out in February, featuring "The Face by the River" by CAS and "Eblis in Bakelite" by James Blish, along with a rebuttal by Donald Sidney-Fryer, plus some other material of interest to the lurkers at this website). So please, read the book, digest it, let its contents perculate in your fragile little minds--and then put it down on paper! 'Cause the only way we're going to get CAS where he should be is by building up a body of criticism of the same quality as that which friend Joshi built up HPL's rep.
Best, Scott Connors