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Originally Posted by j. d. worthington  Ah! I'd been a bit out of the loop lately, and wasn't even aware of this one. Thank you for the information! In such a case... by all means, check out these stories when you have a chance, Connavar (or anyone else interested in diving into serious HPL reading). Though some of the revision tales are clumsy, some are mediocre, and some (like "Ashes") are simply bad, there are a number well worth checking out, such as "The Mound", "Out of the Eons", "The Horror in the Burying-Ground" (for sheer grue, this one certainly fits the bill), and especially "The Night Ocean", as well as others. Here's the list from the revised edition (the Del Rey apparently, as Ningauble noted, follows the Arkham texts): The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
I'll second your recommendations. "The Mound" is IMO one of the best tales in the book -- in fact, I'd say it's about as good as "The Thing on the Doorstep" or "At the Mountains of Madness" (but then again, HPL apparently wrote it all by himself with no help from the official author, apart from the bare bones of a plot idea), but with a little bit more action.
"The Night Ocean" is a great story, but recent research has shown that only about 10% of the text was written by Lovecraft (a microfilm of the original manuscript was located in c. 2000), so credit must go to R. H. Barlow for its qualities.