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Post by dem on Apr 26, 2010 21:55:18 GMT
H. P. Lovecraft - Cry Horror! (WDL, 1959) The Lurking Fear
The Colour Out Of Space
The Nameless City
Pickman’s Model
Arthur Jermyn
The Unnameable
The Call Of Cthulhu
Cool Air
The Moon-Bog
The Hound
The Shunned HouseBlurb; Terror-filled tales of the inhuman and incredible!
I WAS TRAPPED
... in the suffocating depths of the earth.
WHAT HORROR!
Was that my voice screaming ... whimpering . . . imploring? I was sorry that I had not been taken by THEM before - because this was the worst way of all! ...
AND THEN I SAW IT!
Nothing in Heaven or Hell - and certainly nothing on earth - can equal the detailed spectres of horror and terror portrayed in these pages by H. P. Lovecraft.
WARNING: Do not read too much at a single sitting - and never late at night!'
A WORLD DISTRIBUTORS BOOKMaybe not the finest Brit Lovecraft collection but arguably the most influential. According to Michel Parry - who selected it as his contribution to Stephen Jones & Kim Newman's Horror: 100 Best Books (Xanadu, 1988) - this collection from WDL was the first paperback edition of Lovecraft's work to be published in the UK. "I can still remember the elation of the discovery and the satisfaction I felt as I read the stories and found them to be every bit as affecting as I had hoped."
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Post by ramseycampbell on Mar 18, 2011 11:44:23 GMT
According to Michel Parry - who selected it as his contribution to Stephen Jones & Kim Newman's Horror: 100 Best Books (Xanadu, 1988) - this collection from WDL was the first paperback edition of Lovecraft's work to be published in the UK. It was indeed. It was edited by Donald Wollheim in 1947 and originally appeared from Avon in America as The Lurking Fear. The splendidly rotting fellow (surely the Outsider?) on the WDL cover is by Richard Powers. I think my delight at finding a copy in 1960 may even have exceeded Mike Parry's - it was to set me on my road to publication. |
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Post by dem on Mar 18, 2011 19:29:52 GMT
Thanks for that, Ramsey. can't believe i didn't credit Richard Powers with the cover artwork, and it's one of my favourites of his, too! For some reason, i misremembered Cry Horror! as among the books on display in the shop window as Charles is being lead to his doom in Potential, and there's another i can't place from the same story. "Next to the tentacled cover a man fought off a razor, hands flailing, eyes pleading with the camera." Is that an authentic horror novel or, as with Throttle one from your own head? |
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Post by ramseycampbell on Mar 19, 2011 8:46:17 GMT
"Next to the tentacled cover a man fought off a razor, hands flailing, eyes pleading with the camera." Is that an authentic horror novel or, as with Throttle one from your own head? I'm pretty certain it's a fragment of my head. Whoops, there goes another one... |
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Post by doug on Aug 20, 2012 7:22:32 GMT
Happy Birthday Mr. Lovecraft where ever you are!!!
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Post by ramseycampbell on Aug 20, 2012 9:33:35 GMT
Quick, the essential Saltes!
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Post by ramseycampbell on Oct 11, 2012 11:48:56 GMT
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Post by dem on Oct 11, 2012 19:38:50 GMT
Maybe the wrong thread for this info, but we don't have a dedicated Lovecraft section, do we? Or are my old eyes failing? incredibly, we haven't, so this is as good a place as any to start one. i'm sure you must have been asked this ever since it was first broadcast but .... Laura Campbell. Any relation? |
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Post by jamesdoig on Oct 11, 2012 20:39:04 GMT
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Post by dem on Oct 11, 2012 21:32:27 GMT
Come to think of it, Lord P''s thread for The Dunwich Horror & Others runs to six sides so that likely qualifies as a definitive thread, but we might as well continue here. Vault always was proudly reader unfriendly! Personal favourite is this greatest hits collection, arguably the very best of his short fiction (though I'm a huge fan of such early over-the-top shockers as The Hound, Herbert West - Re-animator and Statement Of Randolph Carter) included in one volume and glorious cover artwork to boot. H. P. Lovecraft - The Haunter Of The Dark (Grafton, 1985)  Tim White
The Outsider
The Rats in the Walls
Pickman’s Model
The Call of Cthulhu
The Dunwich Horror
The Whisperer In darkness
The Colour out of Space
The Haunter of the Dark
The Thing on the Doorstep
The Music of Erich Zann
The Lurking Fear
The Picture In The House
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Shadow Out Of TimeH. P. Lovecraft - The Haunter Of The Dark (Panther, 1965) Blurb:
HORROR FOR THE CONNOISSEUR
Tales of fiendish underworlds bubbling and boiling in bottomless pits, waiting to devour the souls of men ...
Tales of terrors long forgotten but still dwelling all around us ...
Tales of devilish beings prowling the night ... A brilliant collection of nightmare stories whose terrifying eeriness grip the nerves and chill the heart.
'Not a book to explore alone in a benighted cottage; at high noon on top of a bus in Oxford Street it would be sufficiently disturbing'. PUNCH
'These tales make Poe seem like chamber music'. DANIEL GEORGEThe several Panther editions are short The Lurking Fear, The Picture In The House, The Shadow Over Innsmouth and The Shadow Out Of Time which they ran in companion volume, The Lurking Fear. |
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Post by ramseycampbell on Oct 12, 2012 9:50:06 GMT
Maybe the wrong thread for this info, but we don't have a dedicated Lovecraft section, do we? Or are my old eyes failing? incredibly, we haven't, so this is as good a place as any to start one. i'm sure you must have been asked this ever since it was first broadcast but .... Laura Campbell. Any relation? Not that I know of! |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Oct 13, 2012 16:10:01 GMT
I'll always have fond memories of the 1980s Del Rey/Ballantine paperback HPL collections. After I finished the local library's copy of Arkham House's The Dunwich Horror and Others, I bought and read all of them. For years, I assumed that the same artist did these covers and the ones for Michael McDowell's Blackwater series (which I've never read but have long been tempted to try), but I was wrong: Michael Whelan did the HPL covers, whereas Wayne Barlow did the Blackwater covers. Also: The Murray Tinkelman HLP covers posted by Doug on his blog are fantastic. |
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Post by doug on Oct 14, 2012 9:17:13 GMT
Hey all! As much as I enjoy and admire Michael Whelans HPL covers I still find them some what misleading. When you look at the covers Del Rey put on the Kadath and Sarnath editions you would think, if you didn't know better, that you are getting gory horror stories. I bet this made some first time readers angry. I do think though the the Whelan painting they put on their "Best of" collection works perfectly. I wish that I could explain it better, but for me, these covers are missing something. You can judge a book by it's cover, but when the cover perfectly compliments the book, then you have an experience whose memory will follow you your entire life. There are times that all I have to do is see a cover and it brings back the entire experience of discovering that specific book for the very first time. I find it to be a wonderful feeling. Maybe it's a "Marcel Proust" kind of thing.  Funny thing is though. I find the covers "John Holmes did for Ballantine to be very unattractive. They seem to "get it" though, as far as what I think the HPL experience is or should be. These feeling of mine are, to be fair, completely subjective. Take care. Doug  |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Oct 14, 2012 11:58:01 GMT
As much as I enjoy and admire Michael Whelans HPL covers I still find them some what misleading. When you look at the covers Del Rey put on the Kadath and Sarnath editions you would think, if you didn't know better, that you are getting gory horror stories. I bet this made some first time readers angry. True, readers who bought that edition of T he Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath would have been disappointed if they were expecting a story about a creepy tree covered with eyes and mouths. On the other hand, the cover for The Lurking Fear is a good fit. Howdy, mole person! |
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Post by Knygathin on Oct 14, 2012 15:03:10 GMT
Before I had read all of Lovecraft, I remember leafing through those Del Reys in a bookstore nearly 30 years ago. I read a sentence, or two, about someone going down old stairs into the earth from a mossy ground. I could never find those lines again. It may be my imagination.
No, I don't think it was "The Statement of Randolph Carter", because there is no moss in that one.
I already had the three standard Arkham House volumes, but bought The Lurking Fear for the cover, and The Doom That Came to Sarnath because it had some extra prose poems. The Lurking Fear illustration is nice, but the old Avon paperback of the same title feels more Lovecraftian. Michael Whelan is very far away in style from what I associate with Lovecraft.
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