To Quebec and the Stars

To Quebec and the Stars
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Author	H. P. Lovecraft
Cover artist	Robert MacIntyre
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Essays
Publisher	Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc.
Publication date	1976
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	318 pp
ISBN	0-937986-30-5

To Quebec and the Stars is a collection of seventeen essays written by H. P. Lovecraft, assembled and edited by L. Sprague de Camp, who came across them in the course of his research for his biography of Lovecraft. The collection was first published in hardcover by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in 1976.[1]

Summary

The essays collected in the book cover a variety of subjects, notably astronomy, poetry, literature and travel; the main piece is a travelogue to Quebec, published for the first time in this collection.[1]

Essays

"Trans-Neptunian Planets"
"November Skies"
"June Skies"
"May Skies"
"The Truth About Mars"
"Metrical Regularity"
"Allowable Rhyme"
"A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson"
"The Literature of Rome"
"What Belongs in Verse"
"The Crime of the Century"
"Nietzscheism and Realism"
"A Confession of Unfaith"
"A Descent to Avernus"
"Some Dutch Footprints in New England"
"The Unknown City in the Ocean"
"A Description of the Town of Quebec"

Reception

Richard A. Lupoff praised the collection as "an absolute treasure trove," singling out the title piece as "a delight to read ... like taking a guided tour of the city in the company of a knowledgeable and garrulous friend whose greatest delight is to share with you his own pleasure in the city and its past."[2]

Notes

Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller. pp. 115–116.
"Lupoff's Book Week", Algol 28, 1977, p.52.

Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 323.

gollark: Yes, most programming languages lack first-class environments.

gollark: It also seems dubious that having a few tens of thousands of barely trained teenagers around is actually going to be *helpful* in a war.

gollark: It seems like you're bizarrely attached to the country you're in because of being born there or something.

gollark: Rotating GTech™ septagon array at 3.2 radians/s.

gollark: And?

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[Laughlin-1] Laughlin, Charlotte; Daniel J. H. Levack (1983). De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco: Underwood/Miller. pp. 115–116.

[2] "Lupoff's Book Week", Algol 28, 1977, p.52.

H. P. Lovecraft
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Novellas	The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath The Whisperer in Darkness At the Mountains of Madness The Shadow over Innsmouth The Shadow Out of Time
Novels	The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Collaborations	"The Green Meadow" "Poetry and the Gods" "The Crawling Chaos" "The Horror at Martin's Beach" "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" "The Curse of Yig" The Mound "Medusa's Coil" "The Horror in the Museum" "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" "Out of the Aeons" "The Tree on the Hill" "Till A’the Seas" "In the Walls of Eryx" "The Thing in the Moonlight"
Poetry	Fungi from Yuggoth
Essays	"Supernatural Horror in Literature" To Quebec and the Stars Autobiography: Some Notes on a Nonentity
Locations	Arkham Dunwich Innsmouth Miskatonic University Lovecraft Country R'lyeh Yuggoth
Characters	Randolph Carter Herbert West
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