![]() ![]() “Appendix II: Notes on Writing Weird Fiction” “Appendix I: History of the Necronomicon” He intentionally didn’t include any of the stories written in Dunsany’s style. Instead he focused on what he calls “the major phase of Lovecraft’s career”. Wheeler talks about not including much from early in Lovecraft’s career. I have my doubts, but I’m too lazy to dig through the ISFDB to verify it one way or the other. In his introduction, Wheeler claims this is the largest single collection of Lovecraft’s work. This collection has only had one printing. The subtitle, as you can see from the image, is The Best of H. The other volume, published in 2001 by the Science Fiction Book and edited by SFBC editor Andrew Wheeler is Black Seas of Infinity. This volume is probably the one most people reading this post would be familiar with. The introduction by Bloch is copyright 1982. The copyright page says 1963 copyright by Arkham House, but I can find no book by t his title or with the same contents under a different title. It was published by Del Rey in 1982 and has reprinted several times. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre. I’ll survey them here, discussing what stories each contain, where they overlap, and where they differ. There have been two different collections claiming to representative of his best fiction. I’ve not had a chance to read anything by him, so I’m going to do something different. August 20 (today as I write this) is the birthday of H. ![]()
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