The Dunwich Horror and Others - The Best Supernatural Stories of H. P. Lovcraft -

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1963. First Edition . Hard Back. Fine/Very Good. 5 1/2" X 8 1/4. Coye, Lee Brown - Dust Jacket. 431 Pages. Black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine. Front endpaper has 11 character black-inked word (owner's name?) followed by "Kent 1976". Beyond this defect is a tight book with the feel of never opened, and tight white interior text pages. Dust jacket is price clipped and has some light edge chipping and very light foxing that does not extend to book. We have separated the DJ from the book for storage to minimize the spread of the foxing. This from the last un-numbered page - Three thousand copies of this book have been printed by The Collegiate Press, George Banta Company, Inc., Menasha, Wisconsin, from Linotype Garamond on Winnebago Eggshell. The binding cloth is Holliston Black Novelex. The best macabre tales of the outstanding twentieth century American writer in the genre are to be found in this book. Here are such classic stories as the title story, The Colour out of Space, The Rats in the Walls, The Music of Erich Zann, The Shadow out of Time, and The Outsider. Here, too, are those memorable novellas in the Cthulhu Mythos-The Whisperer in Darkness, The Thing on the Doorstep, and The Shadow Over lnnsmouth, as well as such chilling tales of pure grue as In The Vault and Pickman's Model. No writer of our own century in America has so captivated the imagination of readers devoted to the macabre as the late H. P. Lovecraft. His best tales have been out of print in America for a decade-some of them for far longer; this collection is a cornerstone not only for any Lovecraft shelf, but also for any library of fantasy of our time. The stories were selected and are introduced by August Derleth, who, with Donald Wandrei; collected and published the Lovecraft works. The tales are prefaced by an essay on Lovecraft and his creative work, seen in retrospect a quarter of a century after Lovecraft's death. The jacket drawing represents Wilbur Whateley of The Dunwich Horror, as conceived by the distinguished artist, Lee Brown Coye, whose macabre conceptions decorated such anthologies as Sleep No More, Who Knocks, and The Night Side. Mr. Coye lives and works in upstate New York.