A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson

1917 short story by H. P. Lovecraft

"A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson"
Short story by H. P. Lovecraft
Text available at Wikisource
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Fantasy • humor
Publication
Published in	United Amateur
Media type	short story
Publication date	1917

"A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson" is a short story written in 1917 by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was first published in the September 1917 issue of the United Amateur, under the pseudonym Humphrey Littlewit, Esq.

The story is a spoof of Lovecraft's antiquarian affectations. Littlewit, the narrator, is born August 20, 1690–200 years to the day before Lovecraft's birthdate—making him nearly 228 years old as he writes a memoir.

Critic Daniel Harms writes, "While not one of the most inspired of his pieces, it at least shows that HPL realized his pretensions... of being an older, cultured gentleman of an earlier era, and could make fun of himself."

References

Joshi, S.T.; Schultz, David E. (2004). An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia. Hippocampus Press. p. 225. ISBN 978-0974878911.

External links

The full text of A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson at Wikisource
A collection of public domain H. P. Lovecraft short fiction at Standard Ebooks
A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Full-text at The H. P. Lovecraft Archive.
A Reminiscence Of Dr. Samuel Johnson public domain audiobook at LibriVox

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