In which book did H P Lovecraft write about his visit to Florida?
Greetings,
I work as a historic tour guide in Saint Augustine, Florida. Sometimes, I do research to develop new tours or stories for tours we already offer. About a year ago, I noticed in a bio that Lovecraft had visited Saint Augustine at some point. Since H. P. is known to have written a few travelogues, I was very interested in what sites he might have visited while here.
I purchased Miscellaneous Writings from Arkham House Publishing through Amazon. There are a few travelogues in here, but none of them mention his trip to Florida. I contacted Arkham about the remaining travelogues. The responce e-mail simply stated that they (Arkham) didn’t know where I could find the other travelogues.
Has anyone seen this information? If I could pin-point the title of the correct travelogue, I would at least have a chance of hunting down a copy to buy or borrow.
As far as I know Lovecraft never wrote a travelogue containing reference to Florida. However, his story ‘The Thing on the Doorstep’ is set in Florida. His long-lost manuscript of ‘Shadow out of Time’ was rewritten and transcribed by his friend Robert Barlow in Florida but contains no mention of the state.
September 15th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
As far as I know Lovecraft never wrote a travelogue containing reference to Florida. However, his story ‘The Thing on the Doorstep’ is set in Florida. His long-lost manuscript of ‘Shadow out of Time’ was rewritten and transcribed by his friend Robert Barlow in Florida but contains no mention of the state.
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