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Book of the Dead (memoir)

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Book of the Dead: Friends of Yesteryear: Fictioneers & Others
Dust-jacket photograph by Eric Carlson for Book of the Dead
AuthorE. Hoffmann Price
Cover artistphotograph by Eric Carlson
LanguageEnglish
Subjectbiography
PublisherArkham House
Publication date
2001
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pagesxxii, 423 pp
ISBN0-87054-179-X
OCLC46420057
813/.5209 21
LC ClassPS3566.R465 Z47 2001

Book of the Dead: Friends of Yesteryear: Fictioneers & Others is a collection of memoirs by author E. Hoffmann Price. It was published in 2001 by Arkham House in an edition of approximately 4,000 copies. The book contains memoirs of several writers of the pulp magazine era. Also included are several appreciations of Price by other authors.

Contents

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Book of the Dead contains the following:

  1. "Introduction", by Jack Williamson
  2. "Some Notes on EHP and the Book of the Dead", by Peter Ruber
  3. Friends of Yesteryear: Fictioneers & Others
  4. Other Memoirs
  5. Index

References

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  • Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (2001). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998, Supplement 9. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 5.
  • Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 146. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.