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- Plot summary
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{{Infobox book | name = Lovecraft's Book | title_orig = | translator = | image = Lovecrafts book.jpg | caption = Dust-jacket illustration by Jeffrey K. Potter for Lovecraft's Book | author = Richard A. Lupoff | illustrator = | cover_artist = Jeffrey K. Potter | country = United States | language = English | series = | subject = | genre = Historical novel | publisher = Arkham House | release_date = 1985 | english_release_date = | media_type = Print (Hardback) | pages = ix, 260 pp | isbn = 978-0-87054-151-3 | dewey= 813/.54 19 | congress= PS3562.U6 L68 1985 | oclc= 11370960 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}Lovecraft's Book is a historical novel by author Richard A. Lupoff. It was released in 1985 by Arkham House in an edition of 3,544 copies. It was the author's first book published by Arkham House. Plot summaryThe story concerns an offer made to H. P. Lovecraft by a fascist sympathizer, George Sylvester Viereck. His offer is to have Lovecraft write a political tract in the nature of an American Mein Kampf. In return, Viereck promises the publication of a volume of Lovecraft's stories. Reprints- London: Grafton, 1987.
- Ramble House, 2000, as A Novel of H.P. Lovecraft. {{ISBN|978-0-9774527-3-6}}. Cover art by Gavin L. O'Keefe. This is the complete text of the original novel as written by Lupoff. The book was cut by half for another publisher before being picked up for publication by Arkham House. The original manuscript was presumed lost for over 20 years before surfacing in the private library of Locus Publisher, Charles N. Brown.
References- {{cite book | last=Jaffery | first=Sheldon | authorlink=Sheldon Jaffery | title=The Arkham House Companion | location=Mercer Island, WA | publisher=Starmont House, Inc.| page=137 | year=1989 | isbn=1-55742-005-X}}
- {{cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker |author2=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd.| page=55 | year=1998}}
- {{cite book | last=Joshi | first=S.T. | authorlink=S.T. Joshi | title=Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography | location=Sauk City, WI | publisher=Arkham House| page=153 | year=1999 | isbn=0-87054-176-5}}
- {{cite book | last=Nielsen | first=Leon | title=Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide | location=Jefferson, NC and London | publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.| page=131 | year=2004 | isbn=0-7864-1785-4}}
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