The House of the Worm

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name = The House of the Worm
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image_caption = Dust-jacket illustration by Allan Servoss for "The House of the Worm"
author = Gary Myers
illustrator = Allan Servoss
cover_artist = Allan Servoss
country = United States
language = English
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genre = Horror, Fantasy short stories
publisher = Arkham House
release_date = 1975
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = ix, 77 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-87054-071-8
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"The House of the Worm" is a collection of stories by author Gary Myers. It was released in 1975 by Arkham House in an edition of 4,144 copies and was the author's first book. The book is a stylistic pastiche of H. P. Lovecraft and Lord Dunsany, and may be seen as an expansion of Lovecraft's Dream Cycle. While presented as a novel of the Cthulhu Mythos, it is, in fact, a collection of linked stories.

The first of these stories, "The House of the Worm," was included (as "The Feast in the House of the Worm") in Lin Carter's anthology New Worlds for Old (1971), the thirty-fifth volume in the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series. The third story, "Xiurhn," was selected by Carter for (1976). The collection itself was listed by Carter as one of the year's best fantasy books.

Contents

"The House of the Worm" contains the following:

# "Introduction"
# I "The House of the Worm"
# II "Yohk the Necromancer"
# III "Xiurhn"
# IV "Passing of a Dreamer"
# V "The Return of Zhosph"
# VI "The Three Enchantments"
# VII "Hazuth-Kleg"
# VIII "The Loot of Golthoth"
# IX "The Four Sealed Jars"
# X "The Maker of Gods"

References

*cite book | last=Carter | first=Lin | title=New Worlds for Old | location=New York, NY | publisher=Ballantine Books | date=1971 | id=ISBN 0-345-02365-X
*cite book | last=Carter | first=Lin | title=The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 2 | location=New York, NY | publisher=DAW Books, Inc. | date=1976
*cite book | last=Jaffery | first=Sheldon | authorlink=Sheldon Jaffery | title=The Arkham House Companion | location=Mercer Island, WA | publisher=Starmont House, Inc.| pages=109-110 | 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=51 | 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=133 | 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=119 | date=2004 | id=ISBN 0-7864-1785-4