the Gods 124

The United Amateur, November 1920
Nyarlathotep 128
Editorial 129
Official Organ Fund 130

The United Amateur, January 1921
Official Organ Fund 130

The United Amateur, March 1921
Winifred Virginia Jackson: A "Different" Poetess 130
Ex Oblivione 134
Official Organ Fund 134

The United Amateur, September 1921
The United Amateur 135
Editorial 136

The United Amateur, November 1921
The United Amateur 138
Official Organ Fund 138

The United Amateur, January 1922
The United Amateur 139
Editorial 139

The United Amateur, March 1922
Official Organ Fund 140

The United Amateur, May 1922
Official Organ Fund 140
At the Home of Poe 140

THE
UNITED AMATEUR

SEPTEMBER 1915

[Illustration: HOWARD P. LOVECRAFT
First Vice-President U. A. P. A.]

United Amateur Press Association

EXPONENT OF AMATEUR JOURNALISM

ITS OBJECT

The desire to write for publication is one which inheres strongly in
every human breast. From the proficient college graduate, storming the
gates of the high-grade literary magazines, to the raw schoolboy, vainly
endeavoring to place his first crude compositions in the local
newspapers, the whole intelligent public are today seeking expression
through the printed page, and yearning to behold their thoughts and
ideals permanently crystallized in the magic medium of type. But while a
few persons of exceptional talent manage eventually to gain a foothold
in the professional world of letters rising to celebrity through the
wide diffusion of their art, ideals, or opinions; the vast majority,
unless aided in their education by certain especial advantages, are
doomed to confine