Book of the Dead (memoir)

Book of the Dead: Friends of Yesteryear: Fictioneers & Others

Dust-jacket photograph by Eric Carlson for Book of the Dead
Author	E. Hoffmann Price
Cover artist	photograph by Eric Carlson
Language	English
Subject	biography
Publisher	Arkham House
Publication date	2001
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	xxii, 423 pp
ISBN	0-87054-179-X
OCLC	46420057
Dewey Decimal	813/.5209 21
LC Class	PS3566.R465 Z47 2001

Book of the Dead: Friends of Yesteryear: Fictioneers & Others is a collection of memoirs by author E. Hoffmann Price. It was published in 2001 by Arkham House in an edition of approximately 4,000 copies. The book contains memoirs of several writers of the pulp magazine era. Also included are several appreciations of Price by other authors.

Contents

Book of the Dead contains the following:

1. "Introduction", by Jack Williamson
2. "Some Notes on EHP and the Book of the Dead", by Peter Ruber
3. Friends of Yesteryear: Fictioneers & Others
   • "Prologue"
   • I "Farnsworth Wright"
   • II "Otis Adelbert Kline"
   • III "Howard Phillips Lovecraft"
   • IV "Robert Ervin Howard"
   • V "Clark Ashton Smith"
   • VI "W. K. Mashburn, Jr."
   • VII "Ralph Milne Farley (Roger Sherman Hoar)"
   • VIII "Seabury Grandin Quinn"
   • IX "Hugh Doak Rankin"
   • X "The Varnished Vultures & Spider Bite"
   • XI "Barsoom Badigian"
   • XII "Harry Olmsted"
   • XIII "Albert Richard Wetjen"
   • XIV "Norbert W. Davis"
   • XV "Milo Ray Phelps"
   • XVI "William S. Bruner"
   • XVII "Henry Kuttner"
   • XVIII "August W. Derleth"
   • XIX "Edmond Hamilton"
   • "Epilogue"
4. Other Memoirs
   • "The Lovecraft Controversy: Why?", by E. Hoffmann Price
   • "Five Million Words", by Monte Linsley
   • "Seabury Quinn: An Appreciation", by E. Hoffmann Price
   • "Mortonius", by E. Hoffmann Price (about James Ferdinand Morton, Jr.)
   • "A Conversation With E. Hoffmann Price", by Gregorio Montjo
   • "One Man’s View of the Death of the Pulp Era", by E. Hoffmann Price
   • "EHP: A Bibliography", by Virgil Utter
5. Index

References

• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (2001). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998, Supplement 9. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 5.
• Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 146. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.