The Horror from the Hills

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The Horror from the Hills

Dust-jacket Illustration by Richard Taylor for The Horror from the Hills
Author Frank Belknap Long
Cover artist Richard Taylor
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Horror novel
Publisher Arkham House
Publication date 1963
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 110 pp
ISBN NA

The Horror from the Hills is a horror novel by author Frank Belknap Long. It was published by Arkham House in 1963 in an edition of 1,997 copies. The novel is part of the Cthulhu Mythos.

The novel was originally serialized in Weird Tales magazine. It appeared in the January and February-March, 1931 issues. Long also incorporated a dream of H. P. Lovecraft into the novel, using Lovecraft's description nearly verbatim and with his permission.[1]

Contents

[edit] Plot summary

The novel concerns a malevolent entity that inhabits and animates a stone idol and causes it to drink blood.

[edit] Reprints

  • New York: Belmont, 1964 (with two unrelated stories added as Odd SF).
  • London: Brown-Watson, 1965 (with the same two stories added, but not retitled).

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ H. P. Lovecraft, letter to C.L. Moore, July 2, 1935, in Selected Letters: 1934–1937 (Arkham House, 1976), pp. 181–182

[edit] References

  • Jaffery, Sheldon; Fred Cook (1985). The Collector's Index to Weird Tales. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 33. ISBN 0-87972-284-3. 
  • Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc., 69. 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., 39. 
  • Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 82. ISBN 0-87054-176-5. 
  • Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 89. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.