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Originally Posted by Connavar of Rigante  Is my penguin collection from 1999 The Call of Cthulhu and Other Wierd Stories with many mistakes as the omnibus? Or is it fine?
can i read it without worrying about it being full of mistakes or stories not written by HPL but edited and realesed way after him? |
I'm not Ningauble, but I can give you a fairly useful answer on this one. No, the number of mistakes is vastly reduced... quite minor, in fact, amounting to the nearly inevitable sort of things that creep in during the production of any book. And none of the stories are by anyone else... S. T. Joshi, certainly
one of, if not
the foremost Lovecraftian textual scholar, edited the book and wrote the introduction and notes. So you've got one of the best low-price Lovecraftian volumes there is. (The others would be the two remaining volumes in the Penguin set. His revision tales -- also worth reading, in some cases just below his best original work itself -- is unfortunately only available currently in the Arkham House hardbound volume, if you want a good edition.)