Lovecraft Howard. Selected Letters III (1929-1931)

Sauk City, WI: Arkham House Publishers, Inc.; 1971
Darleth A. Wandrei D. (eds.).Back at the Barnes Street house in his native Providence, H.P. Lovecraft lived comfortably with his aunts, Mrs. F.C. Clark and Mrs. A.E. Phillips Gamwell, his mother’s sisters, during the period of his life covered by the letters in this third volume – July, 1929 through 1931. Here he steadily improved as a writer of the macabre, enlarging his literary horizons, while at the same time, paradoxically, he began to doubt himself with an unhappy effect on his creative activity.
Yet this was the period of some of his most notable tales – The Dunwich Horror, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Whisperer in Darkness, and At the Mountains of Madness – as well as of his best poems, the The Fungi from Yuggoth, the crystallization of ideas or themes he hoped to develop later in fiction. It was also a time of many difficulties with editors of the few magazines regularly publishing tales of the macabre.
His revision work included more and more tales that were eventually to be looked upon as his own, such as The Curse of Yig and The Mound, and his increasing correspondence delineates his interest in manuscripts that merged into the range of his own creative domain.