The Horror from the Hills

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name = The Horror from the Hills
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image_caption = Dust-jacket Illustration by Richard Taylor for "The Horror from the Hills"
author = Frank Belknap Long
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cover_artist = Richard Taylor
country = United States
language = English
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genre = Horror novel
publisher = Arkham House
release_date = 1963
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = 110 pp
isbn = NA
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"The Horror from the Hills" is a horror novel by author Frank Belknap Long. It was published by Arkham House in 1963 in an edition of 1,997 copies. The novel is part of the Cthulhu Mythos.

The novel was originally serialized in "Weird Tales" magazine. It appeared in the January and February-March, 1931 issues. Long also incorporated a dream of H. P. Lovecraft into the novel, using Lovecraft's description nearly verbatim and with his permission. [H. P. Lovecraft, letter to C.L. Moore, July 2, 1935, in "Selected Letters: 1934–1937 (Arkham House, 1976), pp. 181–182]

Plot summary

The novel concerns a malevolent entity that inhabits and animates a stone idol and causes it to drink blood.

Reprints

*New York: Belmont, 1964 (with two unrelated stories added as "Odd SF").
*London: Brown-Watson, 1965 (with the same two stories added, but not retitled).

Notes

References

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