Peter H. Cannon

Peter Cannon is a senior editor at Publishers Weekly, where he assigns and edits the reviews in the Mystery/Thriller category.

He’s the author of H. P. Lovecraft, a critical study; Sunset Terrace Imagery in Lovecraft, an essay collection; The Chronology out of Time: Dates in the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft; and Long Memories: Recollections of Frank Belknap Long, a memoir. He’s the editor of Lovecraft Remembered and the co-editor with S. T. Joshi of More Annotated Lovecraft. His fiction includes Pulptime, a novella in which Lovecraft meets Sherlock Holmes; Scream for Jeeves: A Parody, a mix of Lovecraft and Wodehouse; Forever Azathoth, a story collection; and The Lovecraft Chronicles, a novel in which Lovecraft dies in 1960 instead of 1937.

He and his wife and three children live in New York City.


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    The Shadow Over Lovecraft: Interrogating H.P. Lovecraft's Racism (NYC) The Shadow Over Lovecraft: Interrogating H.P. Lovecraft's Racism (NYC)
    Tue. Apr. 16, 2019 - 7:00 pm GMT - 9:30 pm GMT