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When H. P. Lovecraft first introduced his macabre universe in the pages of Weird Tales magazine, the response was electrifying. Gifted writers—among them his closest peers—added sinister new elements to the fear-drenched landscape. Here are some of the most famous original stories from the pulp era that played a pivotal role in reflecting the master’s dark vision.
FANE OF THE BLACK PHARAOH by Robert Bloch: A man obsessed with unearthing dark secrets succumbs to the lure of the forbidden.
BELLS OF HORROR by Henry Kuttner: Infernal chimes ring the promise of dementia and mutilation.
THE FIRE OF ASSHURBANIPAL by Robert E. Howard: In the burning Afghan desert, a young American unleashes an ancient curse.
THE ABYSS by Robert A. W. Lowndes: A hypnotized man finds himself in an alternate universe, trapped on a high wire between life and death.
AND SIXTEEN MORE TALES OF ICY TERROR . . .
THE THING ON THE ROOF by Robert E. Howard
THE SEVEN GEASES by Clark Ashton Smith
THE INVADERS by Henry Kuttner
THE THING THAT WALKED ON THE WIND by August Derleth
ITHAQUA by August Derleth
THE LAIR OF THE STAR-SPAWN by August Derleth & Mark Schorer
THE LORD OF ILLUSION by E. Hoffmann Price
THE WARDER OF KNOWLEDGE by Richard F. Searight
THE SCOURGE OF B’MOTH by Bertram Russell
THE HOUSE OF THE WORM by Mearle Prout
SPAWN OF THE GREEN ABYSS by C. Hall Thompson
THE GUARDIAN OF THE BOOK by Henry Hasse
MUSIC OF THE STARS by Duane W. Rimel
THE AQUARIUM by Carl Jacobi
THE HORROR OUT OF LOVECRAFT by Donald A. Wollheim
TO ARKHAM AND THE STARS by Fritz Leiber
- Sales Rank: #1290958 in Books
- Brand: H.P. Lovecraft Novels Del Rey Books
- Published on: 2002-10-01
- Released on: 2002-10-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x .84" w x 5.20" l, .70 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 400 pages
From the Inside Flap
When H.P. Lovecraft first introduced his macabre universe in the pages of "Weird Tales magazine, the response was electrifying. Gifted writers--among them his closest peers--added sinister new elements to the fear-drenched landscape. Here are some of the most famous original stories from the pulp era that played a pivotal role in reflecting the master's dark vision.
FANE OF THE BLACK PHARAOH by Robert Bloch: A man obsessed with unearthing dark secrets succumbs to the lure of the forbidden.
BELLS OF HORROR by Henry Kuttner: Infernal chimes ring the promise of dementia and mutilation.
THE FIRE OF ASSURBANIPAL by Robert E. Howard: In the burning Afghan desert, a young American unleashes an ancient curse.
THE ABYSS by Robert A. W. Lowndes: A hypnotized man finds himself in an alternate universe, trapped on a high wire between life and death.
AND SIXTEEN MORE TALES OF ICY TERROR
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37 of 39 people found the following review helpful.
Indiana Jones and the Demons of Yore
By Bruce Rux
Hardly the best collection from the early Lovecraft acolytes, but one that will certainly appeal to the fourteen-year-old in everyone who loves the Mythos. Editor Price is an admirable scholar of this particular niche in literature, here providing rarely anthologized stories tracing the early evolution of Lovecraft's ideas as practiced by his (generally) less famous pulp fiction contemporaries and fans.
The majority of these offerings are in the "freebooting adventurer meets his doom in forbidden archaeology" vein, a la Conan creator Robert E. Howard - two of whose stories (and only one really a Mythos tale) are duly reprinted, "The Thing on the Roof" and "The Fire of Assurbanipal." Robert Bloch's "Fane of the Black Pharaoh," not one of his best but still not bad, has a British explorer running afoul of an ancient Brotherhood protecting the secrets of a mad Egyptian prophet-king. Clark Ashton Smith's "The Seven Geases" concerns the hypnotic magic of a long-forgotten serpent race, who sacrifice men to their unspeakable dark god. August Derleth - you didn't expect he'd miss out on the act, did you? - collaborates with Mark Schorer on "Lair of the Star-Spawn," detailing a missing archaeologist's plan to stop those same serpent-people from releasing their demon-gods upon mankind. (Derleth is also represented by his own virtual plagiarism of Algernon Blackwood, in "Ithaqua" and "The Thing That Walked On the Wind.") E. Hoffman Price's "The Lord of Illusion" and Henry Hasse's "The Guardian of the Book" tell stories of extraterrestrial wayfarers through the gates of time and space, uncovering ancient and extra-dimensional secrets.
Other offerings include more straightforward horror stories, such as Henry Kuttner's "Bells of Horror" and "The Invaders," C. Hall Thompson's "Spawn of the Green Abyss," Carl Jacobi's "The Aquarium" and Duane W. Rimel's "Music of the Stars." Many of these, like Derleth's stories and Bertram Russell's "The Scourge of B'Moth," are essentially...rehashes of recognizable Lovecraft classics, though one or two are fairly original and worthwhile.
And for those who long for the occasional chuckle-break from all the melodramatically histrionic proceedings, Donald A. Wollheim's "The Horror Out of Lovecraft" and Fritz Leiber's "To Arkham and the Stars" will fit the bill - the latter, especially, as it comically rapes virtually every famous story Lovecraft ever wrote (with love, of course).
These aren't all the stories included in this volume, but they are indicative of the rest - certainly sufficient for anyone to determine whether or not Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos will be worth the "Price."
Now, if you'll excuse me, there's something at my window. It seems to be - oh, my God! Words cannot describe the utter blasphemous horror of the nameless dread somehow made flesh incarnate! Someone save me, before I succumb to that unutterable -
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
An Excellent Mythos Anthology
By Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire, Esq.
I'd like to type up ye first two paragraph's of Bob's fascinating introduction to this wonderful collection:
"Many readers of the present volume will recognize a more than coincidental similarity between it and August Derleth's TALES OF THE CTHULHU MYTHOS anthology that appeared more than two decades ago, in 1969. Derleth had compiled a prime collection of tales written by various authors under the influence of H. P. Lovecraft and employing the props of his system of 'artificial mythology' which Derleth (but not Lovecraft) called 'the Cthulhu Mythos.' To this collection Derleth prefixed a brief exposition of the Mythos as he understood it, so as to provide a context to help the reader better understand the stories that were to follow. It seems appropriate, therefore, in the present case to provide an analogous exposition, especially since the scholarship of the last decades has seen a major reinterpretation of Lovecraft's Mythos.
"As the title of this volume implies, there has even been a shift in nomenclature in regards to the Mythos. Especially in reference to the body of fictitious lore as it appears in the stories of Lovecraft himself, it seems better to refer to it as 'the Lovecraft Mythos' after its creator, rather than 'the Cthulhu Mythos' after one of the dread entities mentioned in it. As with most things, we must understand the origin and development of the Mythos before we can venture to say we know what it is. The definition of a thing includes its history. Hence, the following sketch of the Lovecraft Mythos and its evolution into the Cthulhu Mythos."
Price has thought long and hard about all of this, and his views are extremely interesting. Some of the introduction seems written to counter the hostility toward Derleth from they who have attacked and perhaps misunderstood him. "Interpreters from Richard L. Tierney and Dirk W. Mosig on have hotly repudiated this whole schema, derisively dubbing it 'the Derleth Mythos.' They saw Derleth's framework, especially in the Christian parallel, the imposition of a Good versus Evil schema foreign to Lovecraft's original, morally neutral conception. While such an understanding would indeed represent the grossest rendering of the Lovecraftian fabric, I am not convinced that critics have correctly understood Derleth at this point." Critics have derided Bob Price for his ideas as well, since the topic of the Mythos gets many people emotional, defensive and antagonistic.
Whatever one thinks of it, the Cthulhu Mythos is not going to go away. Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, it has expanded like shoggoth-tissue under the hands of other writers. Some of the best of them, and some of the less than best, are between the covers of this fun book. They are:
"The Thing on the Roof," by Robert E. Howard
"The Fire of Asshurbanipal," by Robert E. Howard
"The Seven Geases," by Clark Ashton Smith
"Fane of the Black Pharoah," by Robert Bloch
"The Invaders," by Henry Kuttner
"Bells of Horror," by Henry Kuttner
"The Thing That Walked on the Wind," by August Derleth
"Ithaqua," by August Derleth
"The Lair of the Star Spawn," by August Derleth and Mark Schorer
"The Lord of Illusion," by E. Hoffmann Price
"The Warder of Knowledge," by Richard F. Searight
"The Scourge of B.Moth," by Bertram Russell
"The House of the Worm," by Mearle Prout
"Spawn of the Green Abyss," by C. Hall Thompson
"The Guardian of the Book," by Henry Hasse
"The Abyss," by Robert A. W. Lowndes
"Music of the Stars," by Duane W. Rimel
"The Aquarium," by Carl Jacobi
"The Horror out of Lovecraft," by Donald A Wollheim
"To Arkham and the Stars," by Fritz Leiber
One of the finest features of a Robert M. Price Mythos anthology is that he often restores the text as it was originally written. When Derleth published "The Aquarium," he excised those portions of it that concerned the Cthulhu Mythos. In TALES OF THE LOVECRAFT MYTHOS, those Lovecraftian portions are restored.
Some of the stories are not so great, one must admit. I was surprised at how bad the Mythos fiction of Henry Kuttner seems to me. And I found it questionable to reprint both of Derleth's tales together in one book, they are so similar to each other. (It was these two tales by Derleth that inspired Brian Lumley to write one of his finest Mythos tales, "Born of the Winds," which is reprinted in his fine collection, THE TAINT AND OTHER NOVELLAS).
But many of the stories are extremely good, such as "The Abyss," by Doc Lowndes. Writes Bob Price in his introduction, "'The Abyss' by Robert A. W. Lowndes has appeared more than once since its first publication in the February, 1941, issue of STIRRING SCIENCE STORIES. But all the reprints have featured an updated, revised version. Though we may trust the author's judgment and respect his decision to improve his work, we are pleased to satisfy your antiquarian curiosity by presenting the original 1941 version, in keeping with the pulp era focus of this book." The story is amazingly good.
"The Lord of Illusion" is the E. Hoffmann Price draft of the Lovecraft-Price collaboration, "Through the Gates of the Silver Key." Here we can see how much of the original text (not much!) was kept by Lovecraft when he wrote his version of the tale.
"The Horror out of Lovecraft" is little more than a piece of fan fiction, and it borders on parody. However, its author, Donald A. Wollheim, went on to create DAW Books, the paperback publisher who published lots and lots of Mythos novels &c. Both he and Doc Lowndes would probably have rescued H. P. Lovecraft's fiction from oblivion had Derleth and Wandrei not established Arkham House for that especial task. (But thank Yuggoth for Arkham House!!!!)
TALES OF THE LOVECRAFT MYTHOS stands as a wonderful tribute to H. P. Lovecraft and the way he inspired others to weave their works around his Mythos. It is a fun anthology that I have returned to again and again for the sheer pleasure of reading these amusing tales.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Worthy Collection of "Weird" tales from the Pulp Era
By A Customer
Robert Price does an excellent job of compiling seminal tales from the pulp magazines from the Weird Tales era. Intended as a companion piece to August Derleth's collection, "Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos", the focus here is on tales which spawned some of the more interesting concepts in what would be later termed the "Cthuthlu Mythos."
As you'd expect with any anthology, this collection is a bit of a mixed bag, but worthwhile for its inclusion of some of the more hard-to-find tales, which are often neglected in anthologies of the genre. Also of note is Price's lively discussion of the "Cthuthlu\Lovecraft Mythos."
In the end, this is a fine addition to the cannon of anthologies which attempt to demonstrate Lovecrafts's influence over the "weird fiction" genre and the group of writers who contributed to Lovecraft's "universe."
Recommended!
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