The Dunwich Horror and Others

The Dunwich Horror and Others

Infobox Book
name = The Dunwich Horror and Others
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image_caption = Dust-jacket illustration by Lee Brown Coye for "The Dunwich Horror and Others"
author = H. P. Lovecraft
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cover_artist = Lee Brown Coye
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = fantasy, horror, Science fiction short stories
publisher = Arkham House
release_date = 1963
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = xx, 431 pp
isbn = NA (first edition), ISBN 0-87054-037-8 (revised edition)
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"The Dunwich Horror and Others" is a collection of fantasy, horror and Science fiction short stories by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was originally published in 1963 by Arkham House in an edition of 3,133 copies.

The collection was revised in 1985 by S.T. Joshi, replacing the introduction by August Derleth for one by Joshi and another by Robert Bloch. It was published in an edition of 4,124 copies.

Contents

"The Dunwich Horror and Others" contains the following tales:

# H. P. Lovecraft and His Work by August Derleth
# In the Vault
# Pickman's Model
# The Rats in the Walls
# The Outsider
# The Colour out of Space
# The Music of Erich Zann
# The Haunter of the Dark
# The Picture in the House
# The Call of Cthulhu
# The Dunwich Horror
# Cool Air
# The Whisperer in Darkness
# The Terrible Old Man
# The Thing on the Doorstep
# The Shadow over Innsmouth
# The Shadow Out of Time

Reprints

*2nd printing, 1966 - 2,090 copies.
*3rd printing, 1970 - 4,050 copies.
*4th printing, 1974 - 4,978 copies.
*5th printing, 1981 - 3,084 copies.
*corrected 6th printing, 1985 - 4,124 copies.
*corrected 7th printing, 1985 - 3,675 copies.
*corrected 8th printing, 1988 - 4,783 copies.
*corrected 9th printing, 1992 - 4,973 copies.
*corrected 10th printing, 1997 - 2,945 copies.
*corrected 11th printing, 2000 - 2,500 copies.

References

*cite book | last=Jaffery | first=Sheldon | authorlink=Sheldon Jaffery | title=The Arkham House Companion | location=Mercer Island, WA | publisher=Starmont House, Inc.| pages=64-65,137 | date=1989 | id=ISBN 1-55742-005-X
*cite book | last=Chalker | first=Jack L. | authorlink=Jack L. Chalker | coauthors=Mark Owings | title=The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998 | location=Westminster, MD and Baltimore | publisher=Mirage Press, Ltd,| pages=40,55 | date=1998
*cite book | last=Joshi | first=S.T. | authorlink=S.T. Joshi | title=Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography | location=Sauk City, WI | publisher=Arkham House| pages=78-79, 152-153 | date=1999 | id=ISBN 0-87054-176-5
*cite book | last=Nielsen | first=Leon | title=Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide | location=Jefferson, NC and London | publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.| pages=86-87,130-131 | date=2004 | id=ISBN 0-7864-1785-4


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