Dagon and Other Macabre Tales

Dagon and Other Macabre Tales
Dust-jacket illustration by Lee Brown Coye for Dagon and Other Macabre Tales
Author(s)	H. P. Lovecraft
Cover artist	Lee Brown Coye
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror short stories
Publisher	Arkham House
Publication date	1965
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	ix, 413 pp
ISBN	NA (first edition), ISBN 0-87054-039-4 (revised edition)

Dagon and Other Macabre Tales is a collection of stories by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was originally published in 1965 by Arkham House in an edition of 3,471 copies.

The collection was revised in 1986 by S.T. Joshi replacing the introduction by August Derleth for one by Joshi and another by T. E. D. Klein. The bulk of the tales were also reordered chronologically, while some tales were moved to appendices. It was released in an edition of 4,023 copies.

Contents

Dagon and Other Macabre Tales contains the following tales:

1. Introduction by August Derleth
2. Dagon
3. The Tomb
4. Polaris
5. Beyond the Wall of Sleep
6. The Doom That Came to Sarnath
7. The White Ship
8. Arthur Jermyn
9. The Cats of Ulthar
10. Celephaïs
11. From Beyond
12. The Temple
13. The Tree
14. The Moon-Bog
15. The Nameless City
16. The Other Gods
17. The Quest of Iranon
18. Herbert West--Reanimator
19. The Hound
20. Hypnos
21. The Lurking Fear
22. The Festival
23. The Unnamable
24. Imprisoned with the Pharaohs
25. He
26. The Horror at Red Hook
27. The Strange High House in the Mist
28. In the Walls of Eryx
29. The Evil Clergyman
30. The Beast in the Cave
31. The Alchemist
32. Poetry and the Gods
33. The Street
34. The Transition of Juan Romero
35. Azathoth
36. The Descendant
37. The Book
38. The Thing in the Moonlight
39. Supernatural Horror in Literature

Cover by Raymond Bayless of the 1986 corrected fifth printing of Dagon and Other Macabre Tales

Reprints

Arkham House

• 2nd printing, 1969 - 1,988 copies.
• 3rd printing, 1971 - 3,054 copies.
• 4th printing, 1975 - 4,024 copies.
• corrected 5th printing, 1986 - 4,023 copies.
• corrected 6th printing, 1987 - 3,932 copies.
• corrected 7th printing, 1991 - 3,996 copies.
• corrected 8th printing, 1997 - 3,025 copies.
• corrected 9th printing, 2001 - 2,500 copies.

Others

London: Victor Gollancz, 1967 (of the original edition).

References

• Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc.. pp. 79,139–140. ISBN 1-55742-005-X. 
• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd,. pp. 42–43,56. 
• Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. pp. 90–91, 155–156. ISBN 0-87054-176-5. 
• Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc.. pp. 95–96,132–133. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.