The H. P. Lovecraft Collection
£33.20£47.50 (-30%)
This elegant box set of six hardback clothbound books contains all of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story collections, from his early macabre stories to the tales of the dreamlands, and his famous Cthulhu novellas. It features:
Macabre Stories: The Tomb; Dagon; A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson; Sweet Ermengarde or, The Heart of a Country Girl; Memory; Old Bugs; The Transition of Juan Romero; The Terrible Old Man; The Temple; Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and his Family; The Street; The Picture in the House; The Tree; The Music of Erich Zann; In the Vault; The Very Old Folk; The Evil Clergyman; The Book.
The Randolph Carter Tales: The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath; The Statement of Randolph Carter; The Silver Key; Through the Gates of the Silver Key; The Unnamable.
Stories of the Dreamlands: Polaris; Beyond the Wall of Sleep; The White Ship; The Doom that Came to Sarnath; The Cats of Ulthar; Celephais; From Beyond; Nyarlathotep; Ex Oblivione; The Quest of Iranon; The Moon-Bog; The Outsider; The Other Gods; Hypnos; What the Moon Brings; Azathoth; The Descendant; Cool Air; Pickman’s Model; The Strange High House in the Mist; The Colour Out of Space; The Dreams in the Witch House; The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Stories: At the Mountains of Madness; The Shadow Over Innsmouth; The Thing on the Doorstep.
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories: The Nameless City; Herbert West Reanimator; The Hound; The Lurking Fear; The Rats in the Walls; The Festival; The Shunned House; The Horror at Red Hook; He; The Call of Cthulhu; The History of Necronomicon.
The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories: The Dunwich Horror; The Whisperer in Darkness; The Shadow Out of Time; The Haunter of the Dark.
First written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and ’30s, Lovecraft’s writing still resonates today and will leave readers both terrified and astounded by the breadth of his imagination. This is the ideal gift for the classic Science-Fiction lover.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Arcturus Publishing Ltd (15 Oct. 2017) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 2000 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1784286753 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1784286750 |
| Dimensions | 13.6 x 12.5 x 18.9 cm |
by Gaspar
Tbh I have not given it a proper read yet so I’m not sure about typos or formatting issues, but I wanted a somewhat cute binding to display and to have these stories in a portable format, great stuff for the price, thanks!
by Gemma
This boxed set is of a really good quality: the paper is thick and the covers are nice to the touch and well designed. I can completely recommend it to any person that likes Lovecraft and wants to have the complete set of stories. There is a similar boxed set about H. G. Wells that is of the same quality and I recommend as well.
Lovecraft wrote horror stories avoiding the common clichés of the genre by adding science-fiction influences to the plot. Some of these tales are, for example, about witchcraft or esoteric threats; but the story includes other worlds or alien creatures. The threat or antagonist comes often from a wider inhuman cosmos that is hostile or indiferent to humanity. Lovecraft created his own personal mythology and has later influenced other author’s fiction.
One of the books had a printing defect and after contacting the editorial (Arcturus Publishing) they sent me a replacement in a couple of days, and they were really nice about it. It’s a small independent company and they are doing these beautiful editions, so I thought that it would be good to leave them a positive review.
by O. Hancox
Son loved them, good quality
by Sam Woodward
This is a very attractive set & for the price, I was pleasantly surprised by the quality.
The box is very thick card with a fabric top & a nice logo on the sides. The only disappointment is that the barcode is printed on the back of the box itself – such a pity it wasn’t on a removable sticker or even a piece of paper within the clingfilm. Nevertheless, the back will usually not be visible when this set is displayed on a bookcase.
The books themselves are small – a good size to take with you while travelling. They are nicely bound with good quality paper & nice fabric covers which are a joy to touch & smell (and who doesn’t like smelling new books?!). The title & the pattern on each front cover is also indented, making it even more tactile.
When I first came across Lovecraft’s work, it was in the form of old paperbacks printed in (I think) the ’50’s or ’60’s which had titles such as ‘The Dunwich Horror And Other Stories’, just like this volume. But these are not collected in the same way. Here, the stories are collected by theme, so the more famous stories are kept together, as are the Randolph Carter stories & tales set in the dreamlands – which is a very good system. Another minor disappointment is that the introduction (which consists primarily of general background about Lovecraft) is the same in every book, except for one paragraph which relates to the book in question. As this is a set, it would have been nice to have a different intro for each one, which would have given the publishers a chance to provide more information. But it’s the stories themselves which hare the stars of the show.
This is not a complete collection & nor does it claim to be. But all of Lovecraft’s best & most influential works are here. Comparing the contents of this one to a complete collected volume which I also own, I do not feel that I have been short-changed in buying this set. Indeed, I am more likely to read this edition because having Lovecraft’s work split into several smaller volumes instead of one breeze-block of a thing is much easier on my wrists, plus the fabric covers are a joy to hold. Recommended.
UPDATE – This box-set edition has a contents page in each volume (as per the photograph I have added) & page numbers. I presume that the reviews which say otherwise are referring to the Kindle version (which I have not seen, so don’t know whether it has a contents page or not) of a different edition.
by Amazon Customer
Will probably need a magnifying glass to read
by Sam Woodward
Those books are of amazing quality, with no weird glue smell, and no weird paper, and everything seems to be too good for that price. I pay £50 for one book made in Italy with a fabric cover and here we have 6 amazing books that are set in one box as a collection! The paper is not premium but it is good quality and one thing that was pointed out to me when I showed those books to my mother is that the letters are quite small, I didn’t notice it really and I’m already half way through the first book.
by Angellou Brown
The reviews for this product show images of a lovely boxed collection of Lovecraft works, which the title misleads you into thinking are one and the same. They are not. You will receive a cheap pamphlet style booklet of four short stories. The entire thing is barely a few millimetres thick and the printing is poor.
If you want a little booklet for car or plane journey this may suit, just don’t be mislead by the reviews.
by Claus
Looks great and a great read my son tells me