S. T. Joshi edits the scholarly journals Lovecraft Studies and Studies in Weird Fiction and is the author of H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996),Gore Vidal: A Comprehensive Bibliography (Scarecrow Press, 2007), and H. L. Mencken: An Annotated Bibliography (Scarecrow Press, 2009). Joshi is the editor of the Studies in Supernatural Literature series for Rowman & Littlefield.