H.P. Lovecraft Complete Anthology?

Enkil · Post by **Enkil** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 1:36 pm

Is there such a thing as a 100% complete H.P.L. anthology in print today, preferably hardcover? Perhaps even including his letters and essays.

I'm looking for such a thing to buy as a graduation present for myself in another month and a half.

Yog-Sothoth · Post by **Yog-Sothoth** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:28 pm

nope. youde have to buy eveything off of the internet.

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 4:53 pm

There's "The Ancient Track", which is the complete poetical works of the man, but it's already huge. S.T. Joshi's trilogy of annotated Lovecraftian prose is pretty complete, but it's still missing a few pieces. The three S.T. Joshi "... And Other Weird Stories" books and "The Ancient Track" should provide you with enough stuff to read until you can track down the rest of his work elsewhere.

jp · Post by jp » Mon May 22, 2006 12:35 pm

As far as his fiction goes, I've broken it down to 5 books which you would need to have an almost complete collection with very few stories appearing multiple times.

They are as follows:
The Best of H.P Lovecraft: Blood Curdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre:
The Rats in the Walls
The Painting in the House
The Outsider
Pickman's Model
In the Vault
The Silver Key
The Music of Eric Zann
The Call of Cthulu
The Dunwich Horror
The Whisperer in Darkness
The Colour Out of Space
The Haunter of the Dark
The Thing on the Doorstep
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Dreams in the Witch-House
The Shadow Out of Time

The Road to Madness:
The Beast in the Cave
The Alchemist
Poetry and the Gods
The Street
The Transition of Juan Romero
The Book
Dagon
The Tomb
Memory
The White Ship
Arthur Jermyn
The Temple
The Terrible Old Man
The Crawling Chaos
The Tree
The Moon-Bog
Herbert West – Reanimator
The Lurking Fear
The Festival
The Unnamable
Imprisoned with the Pharaohs
The Shunned House
He
The Horror at Red Hook
Cool Air
Nathicana
At the Mountains of Madness
In the Walls of Eryx
The Evil Clergyman

The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions:
The Green Meadow
The Crawling Chaos
The Last Test
The Electric Executioner
The Curse of Yig
The Mound
Medusa's Coil
The Man of Stone
The Horror in the Museum
Winged Death
Out of the Aeons
The Horror in the Burying-Ground
The Diary of Alonzo Typer
The Horror at Martin's Beach
Ashes
The Ghost-Eater
The Loved Dead
Deaf, Dumb, and Blind
Two Black Bottles
The Trap
The Tree on the Hill
The Disinterment
'Till A' the Seas'
The Night Ocean

Dreams of Terror and Death:
Azathoth
The Descendant
The Thing in the Moonlight
Polaris
Beyond the Wall of Sleep
The Doom that Came to Sarnath
The Statement of Randolph Carter
The Cats of Ulthar
Celephaïs
From Beyond
Nyarlathotep
The Nameless City
The Other Gods
Ex Oblivione
The Quest of Iranon
The Hound
Hypnos
What the Moon Brings
Pickman's Model
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
The Silver Key
The Strange High House in the Mist
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
The Dreams in the Witch-House
Through the Gates of the Silver Key

The Misc. Writings:
The Little Glass Bottle
The Secret Cave
The Mystery of the Grave-Yard
The Mysterious Ship
A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson
Old Bugs
Memory
Nyarlathotep
Ex Oblivione
What the Moon Brings
Sweet Ermengarde
The Very Old Folk
History of the Necronomicon
Ibid
Discarded Draft of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"
The Battle That Ended the Century
Collapsing Cosmoses
The Challenge from Beyond

Sadly, even with these five books some of his earlier works are missing, and for the life of me I cannot find them (i.e. "The Haunted House").

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Mon May 22, 2006 1:22 pm

I still think there'll probably be more of the S.T. Joshi anotated books, which I'd be glad for. They're all pretty recently out, 2003 being the latest, I think.

Diocletian · Post by **Diocletian** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 9:45 am

jp wrote:As far as his fiction goes, I've broken it down to 5 books which you would need to have an almost complete collection with very few stories appearing multiple times.

They are as follows:
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Thanks for that list, very useful! Of course I've read most of the stories, and own SOME of them but it'd be nice to get them all in print since I have much more Chaosium fiction than I do genuine Lovecraft stuff!

Rodr-Evil · Post by **Rodr-Evil** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:29 am

I have 15 HPL's books, I have never seen one " all in one " book

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 2:38 pm

Ya I own Road to Madness, Dream Cycle and the best of...so you basically got ever story in three books, so u dont rlly need much else

Enkil · Post by **Enkil** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:39 pm

I already own two anthologies. The Del Ray one (my original) and the Arkham House one (including "The Horror in The Museum" book, though it's bad). I want to get the S.T. Joshi annotated texts though.

neonchris · Post by **neonchris** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:17 pm

what are the annotations in joshi's version about?... do they relate one story to another or do they pick out certain themes and possible influences?.... is it written in an academic style or in a fan's style?... are they critical or informative?... I have the 3 "omnibus" voyager books and for a long time assumed they were complete. It was only when I went looking for nyarlathotep that I realised they wern't...

neonchris · Post by **neonchris** » Mon Jun 11, 2007 4:25 pm

One of the worst things about the books I have are the really dodgy cover illustrations... jp would you mind giving me the ISBN's of the books you mention?...

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 11:19 am

One's sort of gotten itself lost somewhere in a mate's house, but the other two are 0-141-18789-1 and 0-141-187-077.

neonchris · Post by **neonchris** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:01 pm

cheers, I might get "the crawling chaos" with the colin wilson introduction. He's always a good egg and it's the Nyarlathotep bit that I'm missing most which seems to be in there. I think that Nyarlathotep is one of the most interesting of lovecraft's entities in many ways...

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:57 pm

Yeps. But unfortunately the book I'm missing at the minute is the better of the three. I'll look for it next chance I get, but you might be able to get a hold of it when you're looking up the other two.

Ktulu · Post by **Ktulu** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:57 pm

I guess this is the place to ask this.

I'm trying to get a pretty complete collection, i've gotten nearly all of his own short stories.
I'm gonna order two books that will give me nearly all of his ghostwritings and collaborations.
I'm gonna order The Ancient Track sometime.

I'm thinking about getting his 4 or 5 essay collections, but is it worth the money to get those?