W. Paul Cook

<p>W. Paul Cook is remembered most often as a friend of H. P. Lovecraft; and so he has lingered posthumously in the shadow of his famous friend. He labored with love for half a century as a printer publisher editor and author; the pleasure of the work itself was often the only reward for his labors. The purpose of this book is to place Cook in his own light; to illuminate his own talents as a writer of fiction essays and poetry; as a publisher and printer; and as a sincere exponent of amateur journalism. We will re-open the door as best we can to understand and appreciate the life of a modest man who styled himself “an ordinary printer” but whom friends called “the Colossus of the North” and a “sterling patron of weird literature.”</p>