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erichart's review against another edition
5.0
I was about to give this book four stars, but decided it deserved the top rating just for the effort at restoring Derleth's place in Lovecraft studies. Whatever Derleth's faults in interpreting Lovecraft's ideas, whatever the literary merits of his Mythos stories, if Derleth had not succeeded in keeping Lovecraft's work in print, we would probably would not even be having this discussion, and HPL might have been relegated to the same obscurity as so many writers from the pulp period. Haefele manages to respond to critics like S. T. Joshi in a respectful and level-headed way, quite differently from Joshi's vitriolic attacks. Derleth devoted years of his life to preserving Lovecraft's legacy, and does not deserve to be written out of his history.
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