The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces

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Title The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces

Jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel for The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces
Author H.P. Lovecraft & Divers Hands
Cover artist Frank Utpatel
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Fantasy, Horror, short stories, essay, memoir
Publisher Arkham House
Released 1966
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages x, 321 pp
ISBN NA

The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces is a collection of stories, poems and essays by American author H.P. Lovecraft and others. It was released in 1966 by Arkham House in an edition of 3,460 copies.

[edit] Contents

The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces contains the following pieces:

  1. "Introduction", by August Derleth
  2. "The Dark Brotherhood" by H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
  3. "Suggestions for a Reading Guide", by H.P. Lovecraft
  4. "Alfredo", by H.P. Lovecraft
  5. "Amateur Journalism: Its Possible Needs and Betterment", by H.P. Lovecraft
  6. "What Belongs in Verse", by H.P. Lovecraft
  7. Six Poems, by H.P. Lovecraft
    • "Bells"
    • "Oceanus"
    • "Clouds"
    • "Mother Earth"
    • "Cindy"
    • "On a Battlefield in France"
  8. Three Stories by C.M. Eddy, Jr.
    • "The Loved Dead"
    • "Deaf, Dumb, and Blind"
    • "The Ghost-Eater"
  9. "The Lovecraft "Books": Some Addenda and Corrigenda", by William Scott Home
  10. "To Arkham and the Stars", by Fritz Leiber
  11. "Through Hyperspace With Brown Jenkin", by Fritz Leiber
  12. "Lovecraft and the New England Megaliths", by Andrew E. Rothovius
  13. "Howard Phillips Lovecraft: A Bibliography", by Jack L. Chalker
  14. "Walks With H.P. Lovecraft", by C.M. Eddy, Jr.
  15. "The Cancer of Superstition", by C.M. Eddy, Jr.
  16. "The Making of a Hoax", by August Derleth
  17. "Lovecraft's Illustrators", by John E. Vetter
  18. "Final Notes", by August Derleth

[edit] References

  • Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc., 82. 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., 43-44. 
  • Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 95. ISBN 0-87054-176-5. 
  • Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 97. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.