H.P. Lovecraft - The Complete Fiction Omnibus Collection

H.P. Lovecraft - The Complete Fiction Omnibus Collection

H.P. Lovecraft - The Complete Fiction Omnibus Collection

Details

Publisher: Pulp-Lit

Publication/Copyright Date: 2016, 2018 by Pulp-Lit Productions

ISBNs (second edition):

• Hardcover Multimedia Edition: 978-1-63591-321-7 (Vol1), 978-1-63591-311-8 (Vol2)
• Softcover: 978-1-63591-322-4 (Vol1), 978-1-63591-312-5 (Vol2)
• E-book: 978-1-63591-323-1 (Vol1), 978-1-63591-313-2 (Vol2)
• Audiobook, retail: 978-1-63591-325-5 (Vol1), 978-1-63591-315-6 (Vol2)
• Audiobook, library edition: 978-1-63591-326-2 (Vol1), 978-1-63591-316-3 (Vol2)
• Interactive PDF: 9781635913286 (Vol1 Prime Years), 9781635913187 (Vol2 Early Years), 9781635973439 (Vol3 Collaborations)

Page Count: 554, 814, 638 (three volumes, about 2000 pages)

Author(s): H.P. Lovecraft and collaborators (authors), Finn J.D. John (editor and notes)

Artist(s): Howard V. Brown, Harold S. DeLay, Virgil Finlay (cover illustrations); Fiona Mac Daibheid and Natalie L. Conaway (dust jacket design)

Fiction: (see contents below)

Non-Fiction: introductions and notes by Finn J.D. John

Summary

An omnibus collection of the most noteworthy of Lovecraft's output, including his "solo" fiction, a number of his poems, and nearly all of the collaborations - with the notable exception of a few lost items, and a few collaborations that have been blocked by copyright conflict, notably those by C.M. Eddy, jr., and a couple by Robert Bloch. The Second Edition is presented in three volumes, intended to begin with Lovecraft's best fiction from his "Prime Years", followed by his "Early Years", and finished by "The Collaborations".

The Prime Years: This volume covers H.P. Lovecraft's "apprentice years" roughly the first half of his literary career, the half written before his return to Providence in 1926. Every story written for publication under his own name is included in this volume, from 1917 through 1925. Front cover adopted from Howard V. Brown's illustration for At the Mountains of Madness for the front cover of the February 1936 issue of Astounding Stories magazine. Back cover adopted from Howard V. Brown's illustration for The Shadow out of Time for the front cover of the June 1936 issue of Astounding Stories. Dust jacket design by Fiona Mac Daibheid and Natalie L. Conaway.

The Early Years: This volume contains the stories that nearly everyone agrees are the best work of H.P. Lovecraft's life. Chronologically, it is the second book in a three-volume omnibus set comprising the complete fictional works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Dust jacket: Front cover adopted from Harold S. DeLay's cover illustration for the October 1939 issue of Weird Tales magazine. Back cover adopted from Virgil Finlay's illustration for The Shunned House, in the October 1937 issue of Weird Tales. Dust jacket design by Fiona Mac Daibheid and Natalie L. Conaway.

The Collaborations: This volume, the final part of the three-book Pulp-Lit Omnibus Collection of all the fiction writing of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, presents the works of weird fiction which he ghostwrote or on which he collaborated with another author.

This collection is available in multiple formats: audiobook, e-book, paperback, hardcover. Here are a few options:

• Hardcover multimedia bundle edition (includes audiobook and e-book)
• Deluxe 7x10 pulp-magazine-size softcover
• E-book in EPUB and Kindle formats
• Audiobook (~85 hours).

Contents

The Prime Years:

• (Forward/Introduction by Finn J.D. John, 2018)
• "Cool Air (fiction)"
• "The Call of Cthulhu (fiction)"
• "Pickman's Model (fiction)"
• "The Strange High House in the Mist (fiction)"
• "The Silver Key (fiction)"
• "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)"
• "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (fiction)"
• "The Colour out of Space (fiction)"
• "The Descendant (fiction)"
• "The Very Old Folk (fiction)"
• "The Dunwich Horror (fiction)"
• "The Outpost (poem)"
• "The Ancient Track (poem)"
• "Fungi from Yuggoth (poem)"
  • The Book
  • Pursuit
  • The Key
  • Recognition
  • Homecoming
  • The Lamp
  • Zaman's Hill
  • The Port
  • The Courtyard
  • The Pigeon-Flyers
  • The Well
  • The Howler
  • Hesperia
  • Star-Winds
  • Antarktos
  • The Window
  • A Memory
  • The Gardens of Yin
  • The Bells
  • Night-Gaunts
  • Nyarlarthotep
  • Azathoth
  • Mirage
  • The Canal
  • St. Toad's
  • The Familiars
  • The Elder Pharos
  • Expectancy
  • Nostalgia
  • Background
  • The Dweller
  • Alienation
  • Harbour Whistles
  • Recapture
  • Evening Star
  • Continuity
• "The Whisperer in Darkness (fiction)"
• "At the Mountains of Madness (fiction)"
• "The Shadow over Innsmouth (fiction)"
• "The Dreams in the Witch House (fiction)"
• "The Thing on the Doorstep (fiction)"
• "The Wicked Clergyman (fiction)"
• "The Book (fiction)"
• "The Shadow out of Time (fiction)"
• "The Haunter of the Dark (fiction)"
• "To Clark Ashton Smith, Esq., upon His Phantastick Tales, Verses, Pictures, and Sculptures (poem)"
• (Timeline of H.P. Lovecraft's Life and Work)

The Early Years:

• (Forward by Finn J.D. John, 2018)
• "The Beast in the Cave (fiction)"
• "The Alchemist (fiction)"
• "The Tomb (fiction)"
• "Dagon (fiction)"
• "A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson (fiction)"
• "Nemesis (poem)"
• "Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme (poem)"
• "Polaris (fiction)"
• "Beyond the Wall of Sleep (fiction)"
• "Memory (fiction)"
• "Old Bugs (fiction)"
• "The Transition of Juan Romero (fiction)"
• "The White Ship (fiction)"
• "Herbert West, Reanimator (fiction)"
  • From the Dark
  • The Plague-Dæmon
  • Six Shots by Midnight
  • The Scream of the Dead
  • The Horror from the Shadows
  • The Tomb-Legions
• "Hypnos (fiction)"
• "Azathoth (fiction)"
• "What the Moon Brings (fiction)"
• "The Hound (fiction)"
• "The Rats in the Walls (fiction)"
• "The Unnamable (fiction)"
• "The Festival (fiction)"
• "The Street (fiction)"
• "The Doom that Came to Sarnath (fiction)"
• "The Statement of Randolph Carter (fiction)"
• "Ex Oblivione (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)"
• "Celephaïs (fiction)"
• "From Beyond (fiction)"
• "Nyarlarthotep (fiction)"
• "The Picture in the House (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)"
• "Supernatural Horror in Literature (essay)"
• (Timeline of H.P. Lovecraft's Life and Work by Finn J.D. John, 2018)
• "The Shunned House (fiction)"
• "The Horror at Red Hook (fiction)"
• "He (fiction)"
• "In the Vault (fiction)"
• (Afterword by Finn J.D. John, 2018)
• "Sweet Ermengarde; or, The Heart of a Country Girl (fiction)"
• "The History of the Necronomicon"

Collaborations:

• (Forward/Introduction by Finn J.D. John, 2018)
• "The Green Meadow (fiction)" (with Winifred Virginia Jackson)
• "The Crawling Chaos (fiction)" (with Winifred Virginia Jackson)
• "Poetry and the Gods (fiction)" (with Anna Helen Crofts)
• "Four O'Clock (fiction)" (with Sonia Haft Greene)
• "The Horror at Martin's Beach (fiction)" (with Sonia Haft Greene)
• "Under the Pyramids (fiction)" (with Harry Houdini)
• "Two Black Bottles (fiction)" (with Wilfred Blanch Talman)
• "The Thing in the Moonlight (fiction)" (with J. Chapman Miske and Donald Wandrei)
• "The Last Test (fiction)" (with Adolphe de Castro)
• "The Electric Executioner (fiction)" (with Adolphe de Castro)
• (lost story mentioning Yog-Sothoth and Tsathoggua) (with Adolphe de Castro)
• "The Curse of Yig (fiction)" (with Zealia Bishop)
• "The Mound (fiction)" (with Zealia Bishop)
• "Medusa's Coil (fiction)" (with Zealia Bishop)
• "The Trap (fiction)" (with Harry S. Whitehead)
• "Bothon (fiction)" (with Harry S. Whitehead)
• "The Man of Stone (fiction)" (with Hazel Heald)
• "Winged Death (fiction)" (with Hazel Heald)
• "The Horror in the Museum (fiction)" (with Hazel Heald)
• "Out of the Aeons (fiction)" (with Hazel Heald)
• "The Horror in the Burying-Ground (fiction)" (with Hazel Heald)
• "The Tree on the Hill (fiction)" (with Duane W. Rimel)
• "The Sorcery of Aphlar (fiction)" (with Duane W. Rimel)
• "The Disinterment (fiction)" (with Duane W. Rimel)
• "The Slaying of the Monster (fiction)" (with Robert H. Barlow)
• "The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast (fiction)" (with Robert H. Barlow)
• "The Battle that Ended the Century (fiction)" (with Robert H. Barlow)
• "Till A' the Seas (fiction)" (with Robert H. Barlow)
• "Tarbis of the Lake (fiction)" (with E. Hoffman Price)
• "Through the Gates of the Silver Key (fiction)" (with E. Hoffman Price)
• "The Diary of Alonzo Typer (fiction)" (with William Lumley)
• "In the Walls of Eryx (fiction)" (with Kenneth Sterling)
• "The Challenge from Beyond (fiction)" (with C.L. Moore; A. Merritt; Robert E. Howard, and Frank Belknap Long)

Comments / Trivia

• This omnibus collection can be considered "complete", with the exception of some fragments, a few lost items, the Essay "Notes on Writing Weird Fiction", the Derleth "posthumous collaborations", and a few collaborations that have been blocked by copyright conflict, notably those by C.M. Eddy, jr., and a couple by Robert Bloch.
• The collection notes that the collaborations are missing: "Ashes", "The Ghost Eater", "The Loved Dead", and "Deaf, Dumb and Blind" with C.M. Eddy, jr. due to copyright conflict; "The Madness of Lucian Grey" and "The Merman" with Robert Bloch (unpublished and presumed lost); "Satan's Servants" with Robert Bloch due to copyright conflict.

Links

Links to outside reviews or helpful pages:

• Early Years resource page: (link)
• Prime Years resource page: (link)
• Collaborations resource page: (link)