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Post by Michael Connolly on Jul 26, 2020 7:15:21 GMT
I've just received a copy of this. If it's like Derleth's Mythos short stories the reader will understand what the first person narrator does not. And it will end in italics to explain what the reader already knows. The protagonists are the usual hopeless bunch, and the plot is bascially a remake of The Shuttered Room. But I have to say that I quite like parts of this. If you discount the usual boring exposition of the Mythos it is readable. Unfortunatly, the last part is a failure, and the actual ending some of Derleth's worst writing. I've just read The Shuttered Room!
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Post by andydecker on Jul 26, 2020 12:40:30 GMT
The protagonists are the usual hopeless bunch, and the plot is bascially a remake of The Shuttered Room. But I have to say that I quite like parts of this. If you discount the usual boring exposition of the Mythos it is readable. Unfortunatly, the last part is a failure, and the actual ending some of Derleth's worst writing. I've just read The Shuttered Room! Then I am really interested in your take on the tower in Billington's Wood!
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jul 28, 2020 16:50:09 GMT
I've just read The Shuttered Room! Then I am really interested in your take on the tower in Billington's Wood! I've no take on the tower only to state that it was based on a fragment written by Lovecraft. As for the end of the book, it's all of a mad rush with the second-last paragraph substituting for what should have been an entire chapter. It's as if Derleth had ran out of typing paper. For all that I think the book is worth a read.
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Post by andydecker on Nov 4, 2022 11:29:25 GMT
Another edition of this. This was done by Beagle Books in March 1971. The text is crammed in 160 small print pages. There is no fore- or afterword, and for the casual reader it is strongly implied that this was written by Lovecraft. Beagle Books was some growth from Ballantine Books. They published "The Arkham Edition of H. P. Lovecraft" and a few Gothics.
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Post by helrunar on Nov 4, 2022 12:37:57 GMT
Cool cover. As we have discussed, it was a work by Augie Derleth but marketed like this in every edition in the 1960s-70s--don't know if later reprints, if there were any, changed the byline.
Thanks for the great scan!
Best, Steve
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