introduction (nf) august derleth
complete chronology (nf) h. p. lovecraft
dagon
the tomb
polaris
beyond the wall of sleep
the doom that came to sarnath
the white ship
arthur jermyn (as "the white ape" 1921)
the cats of ulthar
celephais (as "celephaïs" 1922)
from beyond
the temple
the tree
the moon-bog
the nameless city
the other gods
the quest of iranon
herbert west--reanimator (novelette) (serialised as "herbert west: reanimator" 1942-3; serialised in fanzine as "grewsome tales" 1922)
the hound
hypnos
the lurking fear (novelette)
the festival
the unnamable
imprisoned with the pharaohs (novelette)
he
the horror at red hook (novelette)
the strange high house in the mist
in the walls of eryx (novelette; written with kenneth sterling)
the evil clergyman
early tales (nf) august derleth:
the beast in the cave
the alchemist
poetry and the gods (written with anna helen crofts)
the street
the transition of juan romero
four fragments (nf) august derleth:
azathoth
the descendant
the book
the thing in the moonlight
supernatural horror in literature (nf) h. p. lovecraft
(27/10/2021: original publication details of the stories to follow in some dim, distant and twisted year...)
arkham house h/cvr first printing, first edition: thirty-five hundred copies declared on p.414°
title is slightly but significantly wrong and should be corrected:
the first word in the title should be "dagon" (and not " dragon ")
- as per the title of the very first story contained therein. . .
° - 3,471 copies per "sixty years of arkham house" s. t. joshi (arkham house, sauk city wisconsin 1999)
collection of thirty-two short stories and five novelettes as by h. p. lovecraft (two are collaborations)
cover (d-j) art by lee brown coye
cover (d-j) price $6.50
424pp? including ix pp. titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, bound with endpapers between covered boards