THE OUTSIDER AND OTHERS. Collected by August Derleth & Donald Wandrei. Arkham House, Sauk City, Wise., 1939. 553 p. o. p. A highly prized collector's item. Contains thirty-six of Lovecraft's best short stories, sketches and short novels, plus his fine essay, Supernatural Horror in Literature. The stories, etc.: Dagon, Polaris, Celephais, Hypnos, The Cats of Ulthar, The Strange High House in the Mist, The Statement of Randolph Carter, The Silver Key, Through the Gates of the Silver Key, The Outsider, The Music of Erich Zann, The Rats in the Walls, Cool Air, He, The Horror at Red Hook, The Temple, Arthur Jermyn, The Picture in the House, The Festival, The Terrible Old Man, The Tomb, The Shunned House, In the Vault, Pickman's Model, The Haunter of the Dark, The Dreams in the Witch-House, The Thing on the Doorstep, The Nameless City, The Lurking Fear, The Call of Cthulhu, The Colour Out of Space, The Dunwich Horror, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Shadow Out of Time, At the Mountains of Madness.
BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP. Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Arkham House, 1943. 458 p. o. p. Another scarce collector's item. Contains autobiographical notes; The Commonplace Book; History and Chronology of the NECRONOMICON; two complete novels, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward; the long serial story, Herbert West—Reanimator; fifteen prose poems, sketches and short stories; nine collaborations and/or revisions; sixty-five poems, including the thirty-six sonnets comprising Fungi from Yuggoth; The Cthulhu Mythology: A Glossary by Francis T. Laney; An Appreciation of H. P. Lovecraft by W. Paul Cook.
The most notable short pieces include Nyarlathotep, The White Ship, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, The Hound, The Evil Clergyman.
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