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David_Dovey:
The mere sight of the word "moustacheletted" made a moustache up and sprout on my face in a manner of seconds
rynne:
--- Quote from: Jeans on 14 Dec 2010, 14:46 ---Does anyone know where one might pick up a slightly grander version of his collected works? Preferrably something large and heavy, properly bound. I bought his collected works on Kindle for a buck, but really, HP Lovecraft is an author whose texts it feels extremely inappropriate not to read from a tome
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What you're looking for is Arkham House (http://arkhamhouse.com), the company that August Derleth created to publish Lovecraft’s works. If you want archive-quality hardbound volumes of Lovecraft, that’s the place to get ‘em.
The only bad thing I can say about the Arkham books is that the slipcover art is pretty atrocious.
KharBevNor:
There's also Library of America's HP Lovecraft: Tales which is pretty sweet. It has all the most up to date editions of the texts, and I think it's probably the only single book that contains The Case of Charles Dexter Ward and At The Mountains of Madess, and indeed all the key mythos tales (Call of Cthulhu, Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Dunwich Horror, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Colour Out of Space etc.) plus some of the more 'mainstream' pulp horror fare such as Cool Air and Herbert West - Reanimator and the really good early stuff like Rats in the Walls and the Outsider. The only thing it seriously lacks is any of the 'Dreamland' stories...I would have put in at least one representative, maybe Celephais. I would also probably have put in Fungi From Yuggoth, but then this thing is called 'Tales' so hey. I suppose they wanted to concentrate on the horror aspect, which many of the Dreamland tales contain only obliquely.
What do people thing of Herbert West, btw? Lovecraft himself hated it, it was his one serious attempt to do something that appealed to an audience other than himself. I think it's somewhat unfairly maligned; he definitely wrote worse things, and even in Herbert West he has a uniquely Lovecraftian slant on the classic I AM MAKE SCIENCE! YOU GO TOO FAR! trope. The simple fact that he never invokes God or the soul is fairly original in itself.
ackblom12:
People who think Herbert West is terrible have obviously not considered that Lovecraft's opinion of his own work makes no difference and that it's existence allowed the making of the films Re-Animator and Bride of Re-Animator.
If the line "He didn't have the guts" doesn't make you chuckle you need to fix that by watching both movies.
MusicScribbles:
About Herbert West Khar. I agree with you. Ugh. I've been up since some time I can't remember writing finals papers though and I needed a break. I can't really elaborate right now though. I just needed to read something written by someone else for a little bit. This helps somewhat. I like your Lovecraft-talk Khar. Write some more. My sleeeeplessfs needs more protein to wake. AH.
Man, this sucks. I have things to say about HERbert West but I can't seems to type them and my hands are slowly dying on the keyboard and I'm going to get back to writing papers and drinking wake-water-water and I'm going to stop writing sentences like Cormac McCarthy.
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