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Old 15th August 2007, 09:38 PM   #57 (permalink)
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Re: And your first Lovecraft tale was ....?

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Originally Posted by j. d. worthington View Post
If this is the one I'm coming up with on WorldCat, the contents are:

At the Mountains of Madness
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
"The Shunned House"
"The Dreams in the Witch House"
"The Statement of Randolph Carter"
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
"The Silver Key"
"Through the Gates of the Silver Key"

in which case it is identical to the Arkham House volume... and in which case MM introduces certain elements that show up in later stories (the crinoid Old Ones in "Witch House" for instance). However, Kadath introduces that reference, which is noted in MM, and so on....
Hm, that seems to be it. Mine's a 1968 edition with a cover I haven't seen anywhere else on the net. It's a close-up of a guy's face. One of his eyes is almost falling out of orbit, and in the other he's wearing an eye patch.

So you mean I'd profit from reading Kadath first?
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