The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces

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The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces
Jacket illustration by Richard Taylor for The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces
Author	H. P. Lovecraft & Divers Hands
Cover artist	Richard Taylor
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	fantasy, horror short stories, essay, memoir
Publisher	Arkham House
Publication date	1959
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	xiv, 313 pp
ISBN	NA

The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces is a collection of fantasy, horror short stories, essays and memoirs by American author H. P. Lovecraft and others. It was released in 1959 by Arkham House in an edition of 2,527 copies and was the fifth collection of Lovecraft's work to be released by Arkham House. August Derleth, the owner of Arkham House, and an admirer and literary executor to Lovecraft, edited the collection and wrote the title story, "The Shuttered Room", as well as another story, "The Fisherman of Falcon Point" from some lines of story ideas left by Lovecraft after his death. Derleth billed himself as a "posthumous collaborator".

[edit] Contents

The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces contains the following pieces:

1. "Foreword", by August Derleth
2. "The Shuttered Room" by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
3. "The Fisherman of Falcon Point" by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
4. Juvenilia and Early Tales by H. P. Lovecraft
   • "The Little Glass Bottle"
   • "The Secret Cave"
   • "The Mystery of the Graveyard"
   • "The Mysterious Ship"
   • "The Alchemist"
   • "Poetry and the Gods"
   • "The Street"
5. "Old Bugs" by H. P. Lovecraft
6. "Idealism and Materialism: A Reflection" by H. P. Lovecraft
7. "The Commonplace Book of H. P. Lovecraft" annotated by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei
8. "Lovecraft in Providence" by Donald Wandrei
9. "Lovecraft as Mentor" by August Derleth
10. "Out of the Ivory Tower" by Robert Bloch
11. "Three Hours With H. P. Lovecraft" by Dorothy C. Walter
12. "Memories of a Friendship" by Alfred Galpin
13. "Homage to H. P. Lovecraft" by Felix Stefanile
14. "H.P.L." by Clark Ashton Smith
15. "Lines to H. P. Lovecraft" by Joseph Payne Brennan
16. "Revenants" by August Derleth
17. "The Barlow Tributes" by R.H. Barlow
18. "H. P. Lovecraft: The Books" by Lin Carter
19. "H. P. Lovecraft: The Gods" by Lin Carter
20. "Addendum: Some Observations on the Carter Glossary" by T.G.L. Cockcroft
21. "Notes on the Cthulhu Mythos" by George T. Wetzel
22. "Lovecraft's First Book" by William L. Crawford
23. "Dagon" by H. P. Lovecraft
24. "The Strange High House in the Mist" by H. P. Lovecraft
25. "The Outsider" by H. P. Lovecraft

[edit] References

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• Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd., 36. 
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