Lovecraft (H.P.) The Dunwich Horror and Others.
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The Best Supernatural Stories… Selected with an introduction by August Derleth
Sauk City, Wisconsin, Arkham House, 1963.
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
The first and best known volume of the three-part Derleth collected edition, and the one containing the acknowledged masterpieces: ‘The Call of Cthulhu,’ ‘The Colour Out of Space,’ ‘The Dunwich Horror,’ ‘The Whisperer in Darkness,’ ‘The Shadow Over Innsmouth,’ ‘The Rats in the Walls.’ The publisher’s own jacket copy makes the case plainly – that Lovecraft’s best tales had by then been out of print in America for a decade, some of them far longer, and that the collection was a cornerstone not merely for a Lovecraft shelf but for any library of fantasy.
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