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Joshi and David E. Schultz, “Ave atque Vale: Reminiscences of H.P. Lovecraft” packs 500 pages with anecdotal memoirs by people who knew the Providence writer, while “H.P. Lovecraft: Selected Essays,” edited by Joshi, provides a tasting menu of his wide-ranging nonfiction.

The ancient Roman poet Catullus wrote in his epitaph for his brother: “Atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale” or “and forever, brother, hello and goodbye.”

So, as I learned a couple of centuries ago while struggling to translate Catullus: Ave atque vale.

So I think he felt, he who so revived his manner in “Frater Ave atque Vale,” and his reading gave me that impression.

Doth He know my lad singing in the street— My young Athenian, whose voice for Paul Breathes Ave atque Vale on the world?