Dagon and Other Macabre Tales

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Title Dagon and Other Macabre Tales

Dust-jacket illustration by Lee Brown Coye for Dagon and Other Macabre Tales
Author H.P. Lovecraft
Cover artist Lee Brown Coye
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror short stories
Publisher Arkham House
Released 1965
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages ix, 413 pp
ISBN NA (first edition), ISBN 0-87054-039-4 (revised edition)

Dagon and Other Macabre Tales is a collection of stories by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was originaly published in 1965 by Arkham House in an edition of 3,471 copies.

The collection was revised in 1986 by S.T. Joshi replacing the introduction by August Derleth for one by Johsi and another by T. E. D. Klein. The bulk of the tales were also reordered chronologically, while some tales were moved to appendicies. It was released in an edition of 4,023 copies.

Contents

[edit] Contents

Dagon and Other Macabre Tales contains the following tales:

  1. Introduction by August Derleth
  2. Dagon
  3. The Tomb
  4. Polaris
  5. Beyond the Wall of Sleep
  6. The Doom That Came to Sarnath
  7. The White Ship
  8. Arthur Jermyn
  9. The Cats of Ulthar
  10. Celephaïs
  11. From Beyond
  12. The Temple
  13. The Tree
  14. The Moon-Bog
  15. The Nameless City
  16. The Other Gods
  17. The Quest of Iranon
  18. Herbert West--Reanimator
  19. The Hound
  20. Hypnos
  21. The Lurking Fear
  22. The Festival
  23. The Unnamable
  24. Imprisoned with the Pharaohs
  25. He
  26. The Horror at Red Hook
  27. The Strange High House in the Mist
  28. In the Walls of Eryx
  29. The Evil Clergyman
  30. The Beast in the Cave]
  31. The Alchemist
  32. Poetry and the Gods
  33. The Street
  34. The Transition of Juan Romero
  35. Azathoth
  36. The Descendant
  37. The Book
  38. The Thing in the Moonlight
  39. Supernatural Horror in Literature
Cover by Raymond Bayless of the 1986 corrected fifth printing of Dagon and Other Macabre Tales
Cover by Raymond Bayless of the 1986 corrected fifth printing of Dagon and Other Macabre Tales

[edit] Reprints

[edit] Arkham House

  • 2nd printing, 1969 - 1,988 copies.
  • 3rd printing, 1971 - 3,054 copies.
  • 4th printing, 1975 - 4,024 copies.
  • corrected 5th printing, 1986 - 4,023 copies.
  • corrected 6th printing, 1987 - 3,932 copies.
  • corrected 7th printing, 1991 - 3,996 copies.
  • corrected 8th printing, 1997 - 3,025 copies.
  • corrected 9th printing, 2001 - no print numbers given.

[edit] Others

London: Victor Gollancz, 1967 (of the original edition).

[edit] References

  • Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc., 79,139-140. ISBN 1-55742-005-X. 
  • Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd,, 42-43,56. 
  • Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 90-91, 155-156. ISBN 0-87054-176-5. 
  • Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 95-96,132-133. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4. 
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