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"Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me." —Stephen King
"He's an American original, whose influences on subsequent writers in the field is all-pervasive." —Joyce Carol Oates
"You need to read him—he's where the darkness starts." —Neil Gaiman
"H.P. Lovecraft is not only the essential link between Edgar Allan Poe and the present day, he has become an almost unimaginably influential force throughout the whole of our popular culture." —Peter Straub
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Following on from the phenomenal success of NECRONOMICON comes ELDRITCH TALES. Howard Phillips Lovecraft died at the age of 47, but in his short life he turned out dozens of stories which changed the face of horror. His extraordinary imagination spawned both the Elder God Cthulhu and his eldritch cohorts, and the strangely compelling town of Innsmouth, all of which feature within these pages. This collection gathers together the rest of Lovecraft's rarely seen but extraordinary short fiction, including the whole of the long-out-of-print collection FUNGI FROM YOGGOTH. Many of these stories have never been available in the UK!
Stephen Jones, one of the world's foremost editors of dark fiction, will complete the Lovecraft story in his extensive afterword, and award-winning artist Les Edwards will provide numerous illustrations for this must-have companion volume to NECRONOMICON.
Stephen Jones, one of the world's foremost editors of dark fiction, will complete the Lovecraft story in his extensive afterword, and award-winning artist Les Edwards will provide numerous illustrations for this must-have companion volume to NECRONOMICON.
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A companion volume, not a standalone, Aug 15 2011
By John Middleton - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Eldritch Tales (Hardcover)
If you only buy one volume of H P Lovecraft, don't buy this, buy Necronomicon by the same publishers. But if you want to buy more than one volume, make this the second. This is stuff "left out" of the Necronomicon, and while some is good, as a whole its not as good as the contents of that book. Ever bought a "Best of, Vol 2" album? Well, this is a little like that. A few hits, and some "not hits".The stories are in published order - and includes some early stuff not professionally "published" at all. You can see the beginnings of Lovecraft's style in this early (1916 onwards) stuff, but it is clearly not his best work. There is a fair chunk of poetry here too, and as a rule there are a lot of very short stories, with some almost fragments of ideas. It is definitely interesting to compare this to Lovecraft's later work, and the later stories get better as you would expect.
There is also an interesting essay on writing horror by Lovecraft himself as well as the history of publishing Lovecraft in England by Steven Jones. All up this adds another 100 plus pages to 430 or so of prose and poetry. The inside covers have the distinctive Virgil Finlay commenmorative sketch of HPL in shades of blue, which is a really nice touch.
I finished up my review of the Necromonicon by saying I wasn't going to purchase more Lovecraft; but this Black Book changed my mind. I'm not really sorry about that, but this is a companion piece to a greater work, not a starting point for an introduction to HPL's works. If you are a HPL fan, grab a copy; if you are a more casual reader of HPL, don't shed too many tears if you miss it.
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Every Story You Couldn't Find - Now in One Attractive Volume, Sep 27 2011
By RipleyLV "dblack171" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Eldritch Tales (Hardcover)
I have been trying to amass a complete Lovecraft omnibus for quite some time, and have had significant difficulty in finding print copies of a random array of lesser known stories. I received this volume a week ago as a gift from a friend, and was shocked when I read the table of contents. Every miscellaneous story I had been searching for was now in my hands, in one book.How did I miss this? Because it was released a week or two ago. Much thanks to Stephen Jones for compiling the anthology every die-hard Lovecraft fan was desperately seeking!
2.0 out of 5 stars
Flawed...., April 17 2012
By AssemblyTimeConstant - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Eldritch Tales (Hardcover)
I compared the Amazon preview of Eldritch Tales to the Martin Andersson corrected Barnes & Noble volume H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction and to the Arkham House editions of Lovecraft. I was not pleased. Here are some of the errors that my leisurely foible hunting uncovered. Note that the line numbers change depending on how you zoom in or zoom out the text, so my line numbers may differ from your line numbers.*********
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History of the Necronomicon (taking the title as line 1):
Line 6-7: "AD 700" should be "700 A.D."
Line 15: "AD 738" should be "738 A.D."
Line 24: "AD 950" should be "A.D. 950"
This kind of error continues throughout the tale; I grew tired of line counting, but also noticed that the ending, "Chronology," uses "and Gr." instead of "& Gr."
The Beast in the Cave (again taking the title as line 1):
Line 2: "intruding" should be "obtruding"
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Clearly the text is not sound. When Barnes & Noble had a similar problem, it was eventually corrected and we now have (thanks to Martin Andersson) a wonderful compilation of Lovecraft's fiction from B&N. Gollancz should follow this example. There are many commendable things in this book, for example beautiful illustrations and innumerable reproductions of Lovecraft's hand written manuscripts. But with the text in its current sad state, I will only admire the volume from afar.
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