H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction

H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction

Details

Publisher: Barnes & Noble Collectible Edition Series, Fall River Press

Copyright: 2008 & 2011 Barnes & Noble

Publication Date: 03/18/2011

ISBN: 978-1-4351-2296-3

Page Count: 1112

Author(s): H.P. Lovecraft (author), S.T. Joshi (editor), Martin Anderson (corrections for 2011 second printing)

Artist(s): Sven Geier (cover), John Coulthart (endpaper)

Fiction: (see contents below)

Non-Fiction: introduction by S.T. Joshi

Contents

• (Introduction by S.T. Joshi, copyright 2008 by Barnes & Noble)
• "The Beast in the Cave (fiction)"
• "The Alchemist (fiction)"
• "The Tomb (fiction)"
• "Dagon (fiction)"
• "A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson (fiction)"
• "Polaris (fiction)"
• "Beyond the Wall of Sleep (fiction)"
• "Memory (fiction)"
• "Old Bugs (fiction)"
• "The Transition of Juan Romero (fiction)"
• "The White Ship (fiction)"
• "The Street (fiction)"
• "The Doom that Came to Sarnath (fiction)"
• "The Statement of Randolph Carter (fiction)"
• "The Terrible Old Man (fiction)"
• "The Tree (fiction)"
• "The Cats of Ulthar (fiction)"
• "The Temple (fiction)"
• "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (fiction)"
• "Celephais (fiction)"
• "From Beyond (fiction)"
• "Nyarlathotep (fiction)"
• "The Picture in the House (fiction)"
• "Ex Oblivione (fiction)"
• "Sweet Ermengarde (fiction)"
• "The Nameless City (fiction)"
• "The Quest of Iranon (fiction)"
• "The Moon-Bog (fiction)"
• "The Outsider (fiction)"
• "The Other Gods (fiction)"
• "The Music of Erich Zann (fiction)"
• "Herbert West - Reanimator (fiction)"
• "Hypnos (fiction)"
• "What the Moon Brings (fiction)"
• "Azathoth (fiction)"
• "The Hound (fiction)"
• "The Lurking Fear (fiction)"
• "The Rats in the Walls (fiction)"
• "The Unnameable (fiction)"
• "The Festival (fiction)"
• "Under the Pyramids (fiction)"
• "The Shunned House (fiction)"
• "The Horror at Red Hook (fiction)"
• "He (fiction)"
• "In the Vault (fiction)"
• "Cool Air (fiction)"
• "The Call of Cthulhu (fiction)"
• "Pickman's Model (fiction)"
• "The Silver Key (fiction)"
• "The Strange High House in the Mist (fiction)"
• "The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)"
• "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (fiction)"
• "The Colour Out of Space (fiction)"
• "The Descendant (fragment)"
• "History of the Necronomicon (essay)"
• "The Very Old Folk (fragment)"
• "Ibid (fiction)"
• "The Dunwich Horror (fiction)"
• "The Whisperer in Darkness (fiction)"
• "At the Mountains of Madness (fiction)"
• "The Shadow Over Innsmouth (fiction)"
• "The Dreams in the Witch-House (fiction)"
• "Through the Gates of the Silver Key (fiction)"
• "The Thing on the Doorstep (fiction)"
• "The Evil Clergyman (fragment)"
• "The Book (fragment)"
• "The Shadow Out of Time (fiction)"
• "The Haunter of the Dark (fiction)"
• "Appendix (Juvenalia):
  • "The Little Glass Bottle (fiction)"
  • "The Secret Cave (fiction)"
  • "The Mystery of the Graveyard (fiction)"
  • "The Mysterious Ship (fiction)" (short and long versions)
  • "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" (discarded draft)

Summary

In the 1920s and '30s, H.P. Lovecraft pioneered a new type of weird fiction that fused elements of supernatural horror with the concepts of visionary science fiction. Lovecraft's tales of cosmic horror revolutionized modern horror fiction and earned him the reputation of the most influential American writer of weird tales since Edgar Allan Poe.

H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction collects for the first time in a single volume all of Lovecraft's groundbreaking fiction: "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Dreams in the Witch House," "The Haunter of the Dark," "At the Mountains of Madness," "The Shadow out of Time," "The Shadow over Innsmouth," the full-length novels The Case of Charles Dexter Ward and The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, and many others.

H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction is one of Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions classics. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors in exquisitely designed bonded-leather bindings with distinctive gilt edging and an attractive ribbon bookmark. Decorative, durable, and collectible, these books offer hours of pleasure to readers young and old and are an indispensable cornerstone for any home library.

Comments / Trivia

• There were two printings of this book as of fall 2018: the 2008 first printing (distinguished by a gold ribbon bookmark) contained "hundreds, maybe thousands" of typographical and other errors, documented by Martin Anderson; Anderson would be credited for the corrections made for the 2011 second printing (distinguished by a violet ribbon bookmark).
• This volume collects all of the completed, "solo" fiction by Lovecraft in one volume; not included are:
  • the stories believed lost and non-extant: "The Noble Eavesdropper (fiction)", "The Haunted House (fiction)", "John, the Detective (fiction)", "The Secret of the Grave (fiction)", "The Picture (fiction)", "The Mystery of Murdon Grange (fiction)", and "Life and Death (fiction)".)
  • the two excellent (non-fiction) essays, "Supernatural Horror in Fiction (essay)" and "Notes on Writing Weird Fiction (essay)"
  • the poem "Fungi from Yuggoth (poem)"
  • the fragments known as "The Thing in the Moonlight (fragment)", "Of Evill Sorceries Done in New-England of Daemons in no Humane Shape (fragment)", "The Round Tower (fragment)", "The Rose Window (fragment)", and "Cigarette Characterization (fragment)", the Samuel Loveman dream fragment version of "The Statement of Randolph Carter (fragment)", or Lovecraft's portion of "The Challenge From Beyond (fragment)".
  • the August Derleth "Posthumous Collaborations" "The Lurker at the Threshold (fiction)", "The Survivor (fiction)", "The Lamp of Al-Hazred (fiction)" (generally loosely based on paraphrases of plot ideas from Lovecraft letters, or built around the fragments mentioned above)
  • the revision, collaboration, and ghost-written tales professionally written/rewritten partly, mostly, or entirely by Lovecraft (except for "Under the Pyramids", which is included)

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