Some time ago I was invited to write the introduction for a collection of Lovecraft's favorite tales. The project eventually died before it could be born, leaving me with this essay. I wanted to put it up somewhere in its original form, so here it is.

( 'Art in Its Most Essential Sense': H.P. Lovecraft and the Imaginative Tale )

( 'Art in Its Most Essential Sense': H.P. Lovecraft and the Imaginative Tale )