

He is also the editor of Lovecraft Annual and co-editor of Dead Reckonings, both small-press journals published by Hippocampus Press. Joshi is the editor of the small-press literary journals Lovecraft Studies and Studies in Weird Fiction, published by Necronomicon Press. Davies, Edward Lucas White, Rod Serling, Poppy Z. The Evolution of the Weird Tale (2004) includes essays on Dennis Etchison, L. Klein and others, from a similar philosophically oriented viewpoint. A follow-up volume, The Modern Weird Tale, examines the work of modern writers, including Shirley Jackson, Ramsey Campbell, Stephen King, Robert Aickman, Thomas Ligotti, T. James, Bierce and Lovecraft), and discusses their respective worldviews in depth and with authority. His literary criticism is notable for its emphases upon readability and the dominant worldviews of the authors in question his The Weird Tale looks at six acknowledged masters of horror and fantasy (namely Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Dunsany, M. James, and has edited collections of their works. Lovecraft: A Life, 1996), Joshi has written about Ambrose Bierce, H. Besides what some critics consider to be the definitive biography of Lovecraft (H. Sunand Tryambak Joshi is an Indian American literary scholar, and a leading figure in the study of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and other authors.
