Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith: 1922-1931(vol. 1) Edited by David E. Schultz and S.T. Joshi (Hippocampus Press, 2020) Paperback

David E. Schultz and S.T. Joshi, editors. Dawnward Spire, Lonely Hill: The Letters of H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith: 1922-1931 (vol. 1). New York: Hippocampus Press, 2020. Paperback. 400 pages. Condition: As New Description from the publisher:  The publication of the fifteen-year correspondence of two of the titans of weird fiction, H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) and Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961), is a landmark event. This mammoth volume, containing 330 letters written between 1922 and 1937, allows an unprecedented glimpse into the lives, minds, and creative instincts of two brilliant writers who lived a continent apart and never met, but who shared a fascination with the weird and the cosmic and had the highest regard for each other’s work. Lovecraft initiated the correspondence by writing a fan letter to Smith, who in 1922 was already an established poet. A warm exchange of views ensued; and as Lovecraft gained early success in Weird Tales, he urged Smith to send his poetry to