Check out the latest book from John D. Haefele, if you have an interest in August Derleth or Lovecraft or the general Arkham House landscape. Or if you’re simply one of those people who enjoy plunging into a meaty bibliography.
The new book is an extensive expansion and revamp of previous chapbooks, first the early checklist of Derleth’s essays and reviews done as an entry in the short-lived The Cimmerian Press series — the four titles in the main series were limited to 100 copies. Haefele’s entry has been listed as “Currently Unavailable” on Amazon for the last few years, and might present some difficulties tracking down. Addendum 1 later appeared in a 100 copy run from The Cimmerian redoubt, and much more recently Haefele did Addendum 2 in his private press Cat Butt series. The Cat Butt was limited to 10 — ten — copies, so add that one to your list of items you’ll never see.
Juggled around, the entries in those early chapbooks all appear in the new book — and in a nicer format and larger font than the tiny typeface squeezed into the Ur offerings. Sized to match Haefele’s A Look Behind the Derleth Mythos and Lovecraft: The Great Tales (tho the biblio is considerably slimmer than the Cyclopean bulk of Great Tales).
And of course Haefele includes citations he’s found — a few hundred — not featured in Cat Butt and company.
