Rookie Questions about Lovecraft

[HoopyFrood]

I'm all set to go! Alas, I could only find the story online, in horrible white writing on a black background, so if I go blind, you know why! (I may have to do some copying and pasting, if only in order to save my poor eyes! )

[Mollygurl]

Is it too late to join the reading group? I haven't read Lovecraft in over 20 years and I would love the opportunity to re-acquaint myself with him.


I don't own "The Dreams in the Witch House" so I'll be heading out to buy it
Question for the experts: Am I looking for a single book or a collection of stories such as the one TT is reading?

[Mollygurl]

Originally Posted by HoopyFrood

I'm all set to go! Alas, I could only find the story online...

Would you be able to share the link Hoopy?

[HoopyFrood]

I can indeed! I was just about to suggest it after reading your post...shield your eyes, though!

Dreams in the Witch-House by H. P. Lovecraft

[Mollygurl]

Merci Beaucoup Mademoiselle!

[HoopyFrood]

*Salutes* Not a problem!

[j. d. worthington]

There's also this link, which would save your eyes, though it isn't exactly aesthetically pleasing, either....

Index of /hp-lovecraft

You should be able to link to the story from there....

[BeerClark]

Originally Posted by j. d. worthington

First, I have a question. There are several "best of" volumes out there with HPL, and the Blood-Chilling Tales of Horror thing from Del Rey has one serious flaw -- about 2 pages of text are missing from what may be Lovecraft's very best story, "The Colour out of Space" (or at least, they were in all the printings I've seen). So that one should be read from another edition, preferably the Penguin tpb or the Arkham House hb. ..................

I'm reading that book now but haven't hit The Colour Out of Space" yet. Can you identify what is missing? Can you tell from the page numbers? I remembered seeing this post a while back a wrote to Del Rey (couldn't find this post again at the time) and they did not seem to be aware of the problem.

Thanks

(PS - Thanks for the welcome from you and others on my first post the other day!)

[j. d. worthington]

I will have to dig out my copy and look it up, but I will try to get to that this afternoon, and fill you in.....