S. T. JOSHI is the author of "H. P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West" (1990), "Lord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination" (Greenwood, 1995), "H. P. Lovecraft: A Life" (1996), and "Ambrose Bierce: A Bibliography of Primary Sources" (Greenwood, 1999), which he compiled with David E. Schultz. He has edited the standard edition of Lovecraft's fiction (1984-89, 4 vols.) and many other editions of Lovecraft's work. He is the founder and editor of "Lovecraft Studies" and "Studies in Weird Fiction".