Dagon and Other Macabre Tales

lii, 448 pp. 8vo. Black cloth, gilt titles. Includes: A Note on the Texts by S.T. Joshi; A Dreamer's Tales by T.E.D. Klein; The Tomb; Dagon; Polaris; Beyond the Wall of Sleep; The White Ship; The Doom That Came to Sarnath; The Tree; The Cats of Ulthar; The Temple; Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn an His Family; Celephais; From Beyond; The Nameless City; The Quest of Iranon; The Moon-Bog; The Other Gods; Herbert West - Reanimator; Hypnos; The Hound; The Lurking Fear; The Unnamable; The Festival; Under the Pyramids; The Horror at Red Hook; He; The Strange High House in the Mist; The Evil Clergyman; In the Walls of Eryx; Early Tales; Fragments; Supernatural Horror in Literature; Index to Supernatural Horror in Literature; Chronology of the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. "This last volume of a trilogy represents the culmination of a monumental projectthe bringing into print of Lovecraft's stories in their definitive form, based on manuscripts and notes. This volume also contains the important study, "Supernatural Horror in Literature," and repairs a longtime need by providing it with an index. T. E. D. Klein, whose work has been influenced by Lovecraft, contributes a long introduction tracing the authors who themselves influenced Lovecraft, in particular Lord Dunsany. Among the stories are "From Beyond" and "Herbert WestReanimator," both of which have recently been brought to the screen, "Beyond the Wall of Sleep," "The Lurking Fear" and "Under the Pyramid," this last ghostwritten for Harry Houdini. Joshi, whose long-time project this has been, has also provided a chronological listing of HPL's works." - Publisher's Weeklyl