By H.P. Lovecraft
Edited by S.T. Joshi

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In the 1980s, S.T. Joshi prepared revised editions of H.P. Lovecraft’s stories for Arkham House. Basing his work on consultation of manuscripts, early publications, and other sources, Joshi corrected thousands of errors in the existing texts of Lovecraft’s fiction, allowing readers to appreciate the stories as Lovecraft originally wrote them. In the thirty years that have followed, Joshi has continued to do research on the textual accuracy of Lovecraft’s stories, and this comprehensive new edition is the result. For the first time, students and scholars of Lovecraft can see at a glance all the textual variants in all relevant appearances of a story—manuscript, first publication in magazines, and first book publications. The result is an illuminating record of the textual history of the tales, along with how Lovecraft significantly revised his stories after initial publication.

Along the way, Joshi has made small but significant revisions to his earlier corrected texts. He has determined, for example, that Lovecraft slightly revised some stories when a reprint of them was scheduled in Weird Tales, and he has altered some readings in light of a better understanding of Lovecraft’s customary linguistic usages. The result is the definitive text of Lovecraft’s fiction—an edition that supersedes all those that preceded it and should endure as the standard text of Lovecraft’s stories for many years.

S.T. Joshi is a leading Lovecraft scholar and author of H.P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West (1990), I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H.P. Lovecraft (2010), Lovecraft and a World in Transition (2014), and other critical and biographical works. He has also done significant research on such writers as Lord Dunsany, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, and Ramsey Campbell.

Contents

• Introduction by S.T. Joshi
• The Green Meadow translated by Elizabeth Neville Berkeley and Lewis Theobald, Jr.
• Poetry and the Gods by Anna Helen Crofts and Henry Paget-Lowe
• The Crawling Chaos by Elizabeth Neville Berkeley and Lewis Theobald, Jr.
• The Horror at Martin’s Beach with Sonia H. Greene
• Ashes with C. M. Eddy, Jr.
• The Ghost-Eater with C. M. Eddy, Jr.
• The Loved Dead with C. M. Eddy, Jr.
• Deaf, Dumb, and Blind with C. M. Eddy, Jr.
• Two Black Bottles with Wilfred Blanch Talman
• The Last Test with Adolphe de Castro
• The Curse of Yig with Zealia Bishop
• The Electric Executioner with Adolphe de Castro
• The Mound with Zealia Bishop
• Medusa’s Coil with Zealia Bishop
• The Trap with Henry S. Whitehead
• The Man of Stone with Hazel Heald
• Winged Death with Hazel Heald
• The Horror in the Museum with Hazel Heald
• Out of the Æons with Hazel Heald
• The Horror in the Burying-Ground with Hazel Heald
• The Slaying of the Monster with R. H. Barlow
• The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast with R. H. Barlow
• The Tree on the Hill with Duane W. Rimel
• The Battle That Ended the Century with R. H. Barlow
• The Disinterment with Duane W. Rimel
• “Till A’ the Seas” with R. H. Barlow
• Collapsing Cosmoses with R. H. Barlow
• The Challenge from Beyond with C. L. Moore, A. Merritt, Robert E. Howard, and Frank Belknap Long
• The Diary of Alonzo Typer with William Lumley
• In the Walls of Eryx with Kenneth Sterling
• The Night Ocean with R. H. Barlow
• Appendix
• Four O’Clock by Sonia H. Greene
• A Panorama of the West by August Derleth
• A Sacrifice to Science by Gustav Adolphe Danziger
• The Automatic Executioner by Gustav Adolphe Danziger
• [Fragment] by J. Vernon Shea
• The Sorcery of Aphlar by Duane W. Rimel
• The Diary of Alonzo Typer by William Lumley
• Bibliography
• Index of Proper Names

Other Volumes

Additional volumes in this set include Volume 1: 1905–1925, Volume 2: 1926–1930, and Volume 3: 1931–1937.

Bibliographic Information

Collected Fiction, A Variorum Edition, Volume 4: Revisions and Collaborations. By H. P. Lovecraft, Edited by S.T. Joshi. New York, NY: Hippocampus Press; 2024; ISBN 978-1-61498-164-0; 770 pages; paperback.

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