The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions
Dust-jacket illustration by Gahan Wilson for The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions | |
Author | H. P. Lovecraft |
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Cover artist | Gahan Wilson (original), Raymond Bayless (revised) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Fantasy, Horror, Science fiction short stories |
Publisher | Arkham House |
Publication date | 1970 (original), 1989 (revised) |
Media type | Print (Hardback) |
Pages | ix., 383 p. (original), x. 450 (revised) |
ISBN | 0-87054-040-8 |
OCLC | 18715164 |
813/.52 19 | |
LC Class | PS3523.O833 H6 1989 |
The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions is a collection of stories revised or ghostwritten by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was originally published in 1970 by Arkham House in an edition of 4,058 copies. The dustjacket of the first edition features art by Gahan Wilson
The collection was revised in 1989 by S. T. Joshi adding an introduction by Joshi, correcting the texts and expanding the contents.
In 2007, Del Rey published a trade paperback version with a new introduction by Stephen Jones, and a brief biography of Lovecraft at the end.
Contents
Original
The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions (original 1970 edition) contains the following 21 tales:
- "Lovecraft's 'Revisions'" by August Derleth
- "The Crawling Chaos" with Elizabeth Berkely
- "The Green Meadow" with Elizabeth Berkely
- "The Invisible Monster" by Sonia Greene
- "Four O'Clock" by Sonia Greene
- "The Man of Stone" by Hazel Heald
- "Winged Death" by Hazel Heald
- "The Loved Dead" by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
- "Deaf, Dumb, and Blind" by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
- "The Ghost-Eater" by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
- "To All the Seas" by Robert H. Barlow
- The Horror in the Museum by Hazel Heald
- Out of the Eons by Hazel Heald
- "The Diary of Alonzo Typer" by William Lumley
- "The Horror in the Burying-Ground" by Hazel Heald
- "The Last Test" by Adolphe de Castro
- "The Electric Executioner" by Adolphe de Castro
- The Curse of Yig by Zealia Bishop
- Medusa's Coil by Zealia Bishop
- The Mound by Zealia Bishop
- "Two Black Bottles" by Wilfred Blanch Talman
Revised
The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions (revised 1989 edition, designated by the publisher a 'corrected third printing') contains the following 26 tales:
- "A Note on the Texts" by S.T. Joshi
- "Lovecraft's 'Revisions'" by August Derleth
- "The Green Meadow" with Elizabeth Berkely
- "The Crawling Chaos" with Elizabeth Berkely
- "The Last Test" by Adolphe de Castro
- "The Electric Executioner" by Adolphe de Castro
- "The Curse of Yig" by Zealia Bishop
- "The Mound" by Zealia Bishop
- "Medusa's Coil" by Zealia Bishop
- "The Man of Stone" by Hazel Heald
- "The Horror in the Museum" by Hazel Heald
- "Winged Death" by Hazel Heald
- "Out of the Aeons" by Hazel Heald
- "The Horror in the Burying-Ground" by Hazel Heald
- "The Diary of Alonzo Typer" by William Lumley
- "The Horror at Martin’s Beach" by Sonia H. Greene
- "Ashes" by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
- "The Ghost-Eater" by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
- "The Loved Dead" by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
- "Deaf, Dumb, and Blind" by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
- "Two Black Bottles" by Wilfred Blanch Talman
- "The Trap" by Henry S. Whitehead
- "The Tree on the Hill" by Duane W. Rimel
- "The Disinterment" by Duane W. Rimel
- "'Till A’ the Seas" by R. H. Barlow
- "The Night Ocean" by R. H. Barlow
Reprints
Arkham House
- 2nd printing (of the first edition), 1976 - 3,958 copies.
- corrected 3rd printing, 1989 - 5,062 copies.
- corrected 4th printing, 1992 - 4,994 copies.
- corrected 5th printing, 2002 - 2,500 copies.
Others
- New York: Del Rey Books, 2007 (paperback reprint of the revised edition, with a new introduction by Stephen Jones).[1]
Notes
- ↑ "Books Received". Locus. November 2007. p. 52.
References
- Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. pp. 95–96. ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
- Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 107, 135–136. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.
- Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. pp. 45, 57.
- Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. pp. 109, 159–160. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.