S.T. Joshi

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  • Bibliography:
    52 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1990
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Joe Scintilla Historical Mystery Novel

The Removal Company (Aug-2010)

A Joe Scintilla Mystery

Conpiracy of Silence (Dec-2010)

Book List in Order: 52 titles

  • John Dickson Carr

    John Dickson Carr is known as the master of the “locked-room” mystery -- the “impossible crime.” But Carr also wrote short stories, radio plays, essays, introductions, and book reviews. S. T. Joshi has written the first full-length study of C...

  • A Subtler Magick

    The definitive critical guide to the life and works of H.P. Lovecraft, the premier writer of horror fiction in the first half of the 20th century, written by the world's foremost Lovecraft scholar. (Criticism)...

  • The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft

    Explore the marvelous complexity of Lovecraft's writing -- including his use of literary allusions, biographical details, and obscure references in this rich, in-depth exploration of great horror fiction from the acknowledged master of the weird, inc...

  • The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce

    This volume gathers together the 850 fables written by Bierce over his forty-year career, including more than 400 fables never reprinted from the magazines and newspapers in which they originally appeared.Bierce's fables are distinguished for their b...

  • Ramsey Campbell and Modern Horror Fiction

    Ramsey Campbell is one of the world's leading writers of supernatural stories, although he has received far less attention than other practitioners of the genre. Joshi focuses in a thematic rather than chronological approach on the whole of Campbell'...

  • Great Tales of Terror

    These 23 chilling tales tell of the returning dead, haunted places, weird creatures, and the supernatural in "The Return of the Soul" by Robert Hichens, "The Mummy's Foot" by Theophile Gautier, Lafcadio Hearn's "Of a Promise Broken," as well as spine...

  • The Last Oblivion

    Clark Ashton Smith could well be considered one of the great poets of the twentieth century, and much of his verse explores the realms of fantasy, terror, wonder, and the supernatural. In this volume -- the first major selection of Smith’s poetry i...

  • Civil War Memories

    Civil War Memories is a collection of nineteen stories of the Civil War written in the late 1800's, giving them a ring of authenticity. The voices are both Northern and Southern, male and female, angry and melancholy, serious and comic; but they all ...

  • The Weird Tale

    The leading critic of supernatural literature here examines the roots of the "weird tale" (as Lovecraft called it) through detailed examinations of five "founding fathers" of the genre: Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James, and...



  • Primal Sources

  • An H P Lovecraft Encyclopedia

  • Encyclopedia Of Supernatural Literature Of The World

  • The Rise and Fall Of The Cthulhu Mythos

    Noted Lovecraftian scholar S. T. Joshi has authored a criticism of Lovecraftian and Cthulhu Mythos fiction, beginning with the stories by H.P. Lovecraft that gave birth to the entities, locales, books, and other plot devices that have come to be know...

  • Junk Fiction

  • The Removal Company

    A Joe Scintilla Historical Mystery Novel

    Katharine Vance had supposedly committed suicide in 1932, but when she surfaces under another name a year later, with no memory of her previous life, private eye Joe Scintilla is hired to investigate. He must travel from his native New York to Los An...

  • Conspiracy Of Silence

    In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles" two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title)--here is the first Wildside Mystery Double, featuring two new novels of the 1930s private eye, Joe Scintilla: CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE, by S. T. Joshi. W...

  • Conpiracy of Silence

    A Joe Scintilla Mystery

    When the lovely young Lizbeth Crawford walks into Joe Scintilla’s office in late 1936, she tells him a curious story: she is convinced that her father, the wealthy industrialist James Allen Crawford, did not kill his brother Frank, even though Craw...

  • Tragedy at Sarsfield Manor

    Sarsfield Manor, a palatial home on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, has seen more than its share of horror and tragedy. It was built by four wealthy brothers in the eighteenth century, who abruptly committed suicide some years after it was constructed...

  • Weird Fiction Review

    The Weird Fiction Review is an annual periodical devoted to the study of weird and supernatural fiction. It is edited by S. T. Joshi, one of the leading scholars and editors in the field. This first issue contains a wealth of fiction, poetry, and ...



  • Lovecraft Annual No. 5

    Hippocampus Press has done the Lovecraftian community an immense favor by picking up the torch of published scholarship on H.P. Lovecraft. -Grim Blogger Table of Contents: Locked Dimensions out of Reach: The Lost Stories of H. P. Lovecraft..............

  • Dissecting Cthulhu

  • Great Weird Tales: 14 Stories by Lovecraft, Blackwood, Machen and Others

    Weird tales -- exquisitely chilling works of fiction dealing with supernatural horrors, fantasy, and pseudo-science -- became an established genre with the enduring masterpieces of Edgar Allan Poe. The 14 spellbinding stories assembled in this ou...

  • Black Wings of Cthulhu

    From the depths of R'lyeh come twenty-one brand-new, utterly terrifying, and thoroughly entertaining short stories of horror and the macabre! Taking their inspiration from works by Lovecraft himself, prominent writers such as Caitlin R. Kiernan, ...

  • Lovecraft's Library

    To know Lovecraft's mind, one must first know his books. H. P. Lovecraft was one of the most well-read authors of his time, and his personal library constitutes an intimate glimpse into his mind and imagination. This third revised edition provides co...

  • Weird Fiction Review #2

    Edited by S.T. Joshi, this is the second issue in a new series dedicated to weird fiction criticism and history. This issue features German artist Alexander Binder in a special gallery and new fiction from some of the field's top talent.

    ...

  • Lovecraft Annual No. 6

  • Nameless Digest #2

    NAMELESS Digest is an exciting, outstanding biannual journal of the macabre and esoteric. It features articles, artwork, interviews, and fiction from some of the best in the fields of the Weird, science fiction, and horror, both classic and fresh voi...

  • Lovecraft Annual No. 7

    Table of Contents

    New Deal Politics in the Correspondence of H. P. Lovecraft
    Tyler L. Wolanin

    Letters between H. P. Lovecraft and Orville L. Leach
    Edited by Donovan K. Loucks

    Lovecraft's Rats and Doyle's Hound: A Study in R...

  • American Supernatural Tales

    Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro American Supernatural Tales is the ultimate collection of weird and frightening American short fiction. As Stephen King will attes...



  • Nameless Digest #3

    NAMELESS Digest is an exciting, outstanding biannual journal of the macabre and esoteric. It features articles, artwork, interviews, and fiction from some of the best in the fields of the Weird, science fiction, and horror, both classic and fresh voi...

  • Weird Fiction Review #4

    This is the third issue of an annual series with new fiction and essays by some of the top talent in the small press field, illustrations, and regular columns. The artwork in this issue is by Bob Eggleton, who has created a full wraparound Godzill...

  • The Madness of Cthulhu Anthology

    ​THE MADNESS GROWSRecognized as Lovecraft’s masterpiece of terror, At the Mountains of Madness has​ for decades inspired dread in​ his readers and sparked the imaginations of the most hallowed practitioners of fantastic fi...

  • Unutterable Horror

    Joshi examines the aesthetic and philosophical issues involved in the introduction of the supernatural in a literary work, and traces the history of this literary mode from the time it became a recognized genre-- the later eighteenth century-- to the...

  • Searchers After Horror

    WEIRD FICTION FANS, REJOICE! 21 New weird and fantastic tales selected by master anthologist S.T. Joshi around the theme of "the Weird Place." Contributors include Melanie and Steve R. Tem, Ramsey Campbell, Caitlin Kiernan, John Shirley, Lois Gresh...

  • The Cold Embrace

    This original anthology presents 19 short stories that cover nearly a century of speculative fiction by women authors. Selections range from Mary Shelley's "Transformation" (1830), a pendant to Frankenstein in its themes and motifs, to "Where Their F...

  • The Dead Valley and Others

    H. P. Lovecraft was a voracious reader of supernatural and fantastic fiction, and he was continually on the hunt for powerful and stimulating works in these genres. Many of the stories he read directly influenced his own writings. This first volume o...

  • The Ghost of Fear and Others

    H. P. Lovecraft was a voracious reader of supernatural and fantastic fiction, continually on the hunt for powerful and stimulating works in these genres. Many of the stories he read directly influenced his own writings. This first volume of H. P. Lov...

  • Swords & Steam Short Stories

    New Authors and collections. Following the great success of 2015's Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror and Science Fiction, this latest in the series is packed with swashbuckling and steam-punking up to your eyebal...

  • A Saturnalia of Bunk

    H. L. Mencken’s reputation as a journalist and cultural critic of the twentieth century has endured well into the twenty-first. His early contributions as a writer, however, are not very well known. He began his journalistic career as early as 1899...



  • It Only Comes Out at Night

    In this second printing, Cycatrix Press is proud to bring the highly acclaimed collection Dennis Etchison's It Only Comes Out at Night, previously only available as a limited-edition hardcover (out of print) from Centipede Press to an affordable trad...

  • Nightmare's Realm

    Dreams and nightmares -- what Ambrose Bierce called “visions of the night” -- are the basis of some of the greatest weird fiction in literary history. The unruly images that torment us in sleep are usually dispelled by the coming of day -- but ca...

  • Birthing Monsters

    After two centuries of literary and pop culture procreation, Victor Frankenstein and his monster are as virile as ever: synthetic biology, genetically modified organisms, artificial intelligence, the creation of one life at the cost of others. On...

  • A Mountain Walked

    H. P. Lovecraft wrote The Call of Cthulhu in 1926, initiating the Cthulhu Mythos, one of the most widely imitated shared-world universes in weird fiction. Even in his lifetime, many other writers added to the Mythos, and after his death hundreds if n...

  • Penumbra No. 1

    Penumbra is a new annual journal that seeks to present cutting-edge articles on weird fiction as well as original weird fiction by some of the most talented contemporary writers in the field. This first issue contains scintillating new fiction by suc...

  • Something From Below

    When 22-year-old Alison Mannering returns to her home in northeastern Pennsylvania after college, she finds a troubling situation. Her father, Guy Mannering, a longtime coal miner, has died recently under suspicious circumstances, and her mother refu...

  • Ramsey Campbell, Certainly

  • His Own Most Fantastic Creation

    H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), the pioneering writer of weird fiction, has himself become an icon in popular culture. Stories, novels, and other works featuring the gaunt, lantern-jawed gentleman from Providence, Rhode Island, have proliferated. These ...

  • Penumbra No. 3

    The third issue of Penumbra, the acclaimed Hippocampus Press annual magazine of weird fiction, poetry, and criticism, features provocative stories from both veterans and novices. Steven Woodworth sets his tale in Soviet-controlled Czechoslovakia, wh...

  • Penumbra No. 4

    The fourth issue of Penumbra, Hippocampus Press's acclaimed journal of weird fiction, criticism, and poetry contains an abundance of short and powerful tales from such leading writers as Geoffrey Reiter, Michael Aronovitz, Joe Pan, and Scott J. Cout...



  • Apostles of the Weird

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    Weird fiction is an incredibly rich and varied genre, running the gamut from supernatural horror to imaginary-world fantasy to psychological terror. This anthology seeks to exhibit the wide range of themes, motifs, and imagery that weird fiction allo...

  • Best of Black Wings

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    The six volumes in the Black Wings series, from which these Best of tales are selected,  stand as a monument to H. P. Lovecraft's incalculable and unassailable influence on contemporary weird fiction, and so the time seemed right ...

  • Black Wings VII

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    The six volumes in the Black Wings series, from which these Best of tales are selected,  stand as a monument to H. P. Lovecraft's incalculable and unassailable influence on contemporary weird fiction, and so the time seemed right for a retr...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

S.T. Joshi has published 52 books.

S.T. Joshi does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Penumbra No. 4, was published in November 2023.

The first book by S.T. Joshi, John Dickson Carr, was published in June 1990.

Yes. S.T. Joshi has 2 series.
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