Meetings

S. T. Joshi is a widely published and award-winning critic and editor, and a leading expert in H. P. Lovecraft and Supernatural Fiction.

His work on Lovecraft includes the standard edition of Lovecraft’s collected fiction, as well as a volume of his complete poetical works, his collected essays, several critical anthologies, annotated editions of his tales, The Lovecraft Encyclopedia, and the biography H. P. Lovecraft: A Life, which won the British Fantasy Award and the Bram Stoker Award. Another work, the two-volume Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction, won two World Fantasy Awards, and other works have won the Locus and International Guild of Horror awards. 

Joshi has also written extensively on other authors of Supernatural Fiction, including a bibliography and a biography on Lord Dunsany (Lord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination), a critical study of Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey Campbell and Modern Horror Fiction), and editions of the work of Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Lord Dunsany, M. R. James, Ambrose Bierce, and other writers. He is the editor of the semiannual magazine Penumbra.

Recent guests at our monthly meetings have included Fran Wilde, Carmen Maria Machado, A. C. Wise, Josiah Bancroft, Tom Purdom, Jon McGoran, Madeleine Miller, Fonda Lee, Caitlin Rozakis, Jeanne Cavelos, Jonathan Lethem, Vandana Singh, PJ Manney, Jason Sanford, John Wiswell, A. T. Greenblatt, Cat Rambo, Jo Walton, Stephanie Feldman, Ray Nayler, Premee Mohamed, Randee Dawn, Ellen Datlow, Walter Hunt, and Gregory Frost.