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Post by benedictjjones on Feb 11, 2010 22:29:55 GMT
walked up there the other weeks and found foyles to have the best amount of akashic noir anths i've yet found in a 'real' bookshop. both the 'discount warehouses' i've been in (russell square and waterloo) have good selections but they are starting to get a bit thin -RESTOCK!
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Post by dem bones on Oct 2, 2010 16:59:47 GMT
H. P. Lovecraft - The Whisperer In Darkness (Wordsworth Editions, Feb. 2007) Selected and Introduced by M.J. Elliott
Dagon The Nameless City The Hound The Festival The Call Of Cthulhu The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward The Dunwich Horror The Whisperer In Darkness At The Mountains Of MadnessBlurb: That is not dead that can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die
Millenia ago, the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but slumbered. But when a massive sea tremor brings the ancient stone city of R'lyeh to the surface once more, the Old Ones awaken at last.
The Whisperer in Darkness brings together the original Cthulhu Mythos stories of the legendary horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. Included in this volume are several early tales, along with the classics The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror and At the Mountains of Madness.
Arm yourself with a copy of Abdul Alhazred's fabled Necronomican and prepare to face terrors beyond the wildest imaginings of all save H.P. Lovecraft.For the completist, here's the other Wordsworth Lovecraft edition we've yet to comment upon. don't have a copy myself but from the contents list it looks uneven, The Hound - a favourite of mine - in particular being one of those stories i believe the experts tend to look upon as one of his "lesser" works because it's a grisly, no nonsense pulp horror story with (if i remember) little of cosmic gravitas about it. don't think we've had much comment on the relative merits of 'novels', The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward and At The Mountains Of Madness and it's been aeon's since i read either.
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Oct 2, 2010 22:01:18 GMT
If anyone is after the revisions/collaborations, Caroll & Graf also put them out in two volumes & there are used copies available on amazon for under £2 each (add postage onto this) from various sellers.
The contents for the C&G volumes are as follows:
The Horror In The Museum & Other Revisions:
The Crawling Chaos - H.P.Lovecraft & Elizabeth Berkeley The Green Meadow - H.P.Lovecraft & Elizabeth Berkeley Winged Death - Hazel Heald The Horror In The Museum - Hazel Heald The Diary Of Alonzo Typer - William Lumley The Horror In The Burying Ground - Hazel Heald The Electric Executioner - Adolphe De Castro The Curse Of Yig - Zealia Bishop The Mound - Zealia Bishop Two Black Bottles - Wilfred Blanch Talman
The Loved Dead & Other Revisions:
The Last Test - Adolphe De Castro Medusa's Coil - Zealia Bishop The Man Of Stone - Hazel Heald Out Of The Aeons - Hazel Heald The Horror At Martin's Beach - Sonia H. Greene Ashes - C.M. Eddy Jr. The Ghost Eater - C.M. Eddy Jr. The Loved Dead - C.M. Eddy Jr. Deaf Dumb & Blind - C.M. Eddy Jr. The Trap - Henry S. Whitehead The Tree On The Hill - Duane W. Rimel The Disinterment - Duane W. Rimel "Till A' The Seas" - R. H. Barlow The Night Ocean - R. H. Barlow
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Post by caninesapien on May 14, 2015 13:44:51 GMT
I'm hoping to pick up the Volume 4 Wordsworth edition of Lovecraft - The Lurking Fear pretty soon, but can only seem to see a version with a red cover? Just seems strange given that the other Mystery and Supernatural editions have the black, embossed skull design. It's already irritating that I have two "Volume II"s - The Loved Dead and The Horror in the Museum! Anyone know anything about this change of colour/design?
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Post by Dr Strange on May 14, 2015 15:36:02 GMT
I think they changed the cover design for the "Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural" series a couple of years back - I've got a mix of the two.
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Post by dem bones on May 14, 2015 16:24:38 GMT
As far as I'm aware Wordsworths' Lurking Fear has only been published with the red cover. The change seems to have come in 2013. I think the first of the reds was E. F. Benson's Night Terrors.
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Post by andydecker on May 14, 2015 19:48:48 GMT
Is Wordworth still doing genre books?
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Post by dem bones on May 14, 2015 20:40:15 GMT
Is Wordworth still doing genre books? Hi Andy. Have just checked their current catalogue and, unless i've overlooked something, there don't appear to be any new mystery & supernatural titles; Wordsworth editions: 2015
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Post by caninesapien on May 18, 2015 15:50:45 GMT
I picked up The Lurking Fear - I suppose the red design is a very minor issue as it only cost £2.49.
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