MANTICHORUS: mailing notes (MANTICHORE 20/FEB 2011) EOD Hussey (Amethyst 7): Great to see the Hippocampus titles on the cover of Publishers Weekly! And congrats on the massive effort involved with the stupendous 2-vol Lovecraft bio! Thanks for your extreme generosity in supplying the Lovecraft Annual issues. Pugmire (Idiot Chaos): Looking forward to your next books, and loved your collage of your face onto the Virgil Finlay HPL portrait! Everts (Cunha Part IV) – Fascinating material on this figure. Ever the researcher I see… Schultz(Cthulsz, May 2010) – Ah, the corporate horror! Also always good to get a sneak preview of books to come from Hippocampus. Livesey (Redux 17): I much enjoyed this astronomical piece re the Precession of the Equinoxes. Cozzoli (Zombies Closet): Welcome! Excellent and interesting content on HPLian films and comics. Faig (EOD Letter 16): Very enjoyable book reviews (I don’t have any of those books yet). Curious about Bonner and Fredlund both working at the Library…. Drake’s Potpourri: Ah! Dr Syn! I believe it was the McGoohan version, Scarecrow of Romney Marsh, which scared the bejeesus out of me when I saw it on Disney when I was young. Have one of the Thorndyke novels but haven’t read it. There was a 1937 film starring George Arliss which I haven’t seen; also Captain Clegg, another version, made in 1962 with Peter Cushing, which I’d dearly love to see. Interesting letters to Manly Wade Wellman. Anderson (Nodens’ Notebook 29): Interesting reviews and author notes, and thanks for the essay on Smith. Dapkus (Sidereal 3) Thanks for your comments Jim, and good to see you publishing more poetry by such as Fred Phillips and W. Paul Ganley. Rajala (Nonconformist 2 No 3). One can hardly blame you for a smaller issue this time after the ‘gargantuous’ (my friend Scott’s favourite neologism for ‘big’) issue of the time before. Enjoyed the Lovecraft’s astronomical notebook info. Anderssen (Aurora Borealis). Cutest cover in the mailing! I believe I have a story in Price’s forthcoming Secret Asia’s Blackest Heart (though it’s seen print before). Probate details were cool, as was your ideal edition of HPL. Phillips (Kommati) Arr, Fred me old shipmate! Vastly appreciated your Shikarring notes. Nice essay on fate and Lovecraft. Wish I had space/time to devote to discussing it more, but both are in short supply! I envy Dea’s trip to Egypt, where I’d like some day to dally with the odd Sphinx and perhaps become “Imprisoned with the Pharaohs”. Joshi (What is Anything 22, No 3) : Hail to the chief! Thanks for the intro to the new revisions volume. Your “staggeringly busy schedule” is incomprehensible to most of us mere mortals. Thanks also for the Daily Lurker. Briggs (Dark Entries): Scott! Your extensive issues always entertain me so much, but they are so extensive, I cannot possibly reply to all the ideas they trigger., If you kept ‘em a bit shorter I might have a chance! Dinkens (Alienist 2). Did I neglect to welcome you last time? Welcome! Particularly enjoyed your piece on Cybele and “The Rats in the Walls”. It might be good to have a look in future parts as to how the ‘demonisation’ of the Goddess contributed to the perception of the Great Mother (Magna Mater) as a ‘dark force’ instead of as a lifegiving one. Bush (Pleasures of Death 10) Congrats on completing the Gilchrist thesis! Enjoyed your piece on him in WFR #1. I once had a copy of The Thing from the Lake, given me by Australian fan Diane Fox, but it no