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Country
  
United States

Media type
  
Print (Hardback)

Author
  
H. P. Lovecraft

Publisher
  
Arkham House

4.3/5
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Language
  
English

Originally published
  
1970

Preceded by
  
The Whisperer in Darkness

Genres
  
Fantasy, Horror fiction

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Cover artist
  
Gahan Wilson (original), Raymond Bayless (revised)

Publication date
  
1970 (original), 1989 (revised)

Pages
  
ix., 383 p. (original), x. 450 (revised)

Followed by
  
The Haunter of the Dark: Collected Short Stories

Similar
  
H P Lovecraft books, Horror fiction books

The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions is a collection of stories revised or ghostwritten by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was originally published in 1970 by Arkham House in an edition of 4,058 copies. The dustjacket of the first edition features art by Gahan Wilson

Contents

The collection was revised in 1989 by S. T. Joshi adding an introduction by Joshi, correcting the texts and expanding the contents.

In 2007, Del Rey published a trade paperback version with a new introduction by Stephen Jones, and a brief biography of Lovecraft at the end.

Original

The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions (original 1970 edition) contains the following 21 tales:

  1. "Lovecraft's 'Revisions'" by August Derleth
  2. "The Crawling Chaos" with Elizabeth Berkely
  3. "The Green Meadow" with Elizabeth Berkely
  4. "The Invisible Monster" by Sonia Greene
  5. "Four O'Clock" by Sonia Greene
  6. "The Man of Stone" by Hazel Heald
  7. "Winged Death" by Hazel Heald
  8. "The Loved Dead" by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
  9. "Deaf, Dumb, and Blind" by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
  10. "The Ghost-Eater" by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
  11. "To All the Seas" by Robert H. Barlow
  12. The Horror in the Museum by Hazel Heald
  13. Out of the Eons by Hazel Heald
  14. "The Diary of Alonzo Typer" by William Lumley
  15. "The Horror in the Burying-Ground" by Hazel Heald
  16. "The Last Test" by Adolphe de Castro
  17. "The Electric Executioner" by Adolphe de Castro
  18. The Curse of Yig by Zealia Bishop
  19. Medusa's Coil by Zealia Bishop
  20. The Mound by Zealia Bishop
  21. "Two Black Bottles" by Wilfred Blanch Talman

Revised

The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions (revised 1989 edition, designated by the publisher a 'corrected third printing') contains the following 26 tales:

  1. "A Note on the Texts" by S.T. Joshi
  2. "Lovecraft's 'Revisions'" by August Derleth
  3. "The Green Meadow" with Elizabeth Berkely
  4. "The Crawling Chaos" with Elizabeth Berkely
  5. "The Last Test" by Adolphe de Castro
  6. "The Electric Executioner" by Adolphe de Castro
  7. "The Curse of Yig" by Zealia Bishop
  8. "The Mound" by Zealia Bishop
  9. "Medusa's Coil" by Zealia Bishop
  10. "The Man of Stone" by Hazel Heald
  11. "The Horror in the Museum" by Hazel Heald
  12. "Winged Death" by Hazel Heald
  13. "Out of the Aeons" by Hazel Heald
  14. "The Horror in the Burying-Ground" by Hazel Heald
  15. "The Diary of Alonzo Typer" by William Lumley
  16. "The Horror at Martin’s Beach" by Sonia H. Greene
  17. "Ashes" by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
  18. "The Ghost-Eater" by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
  19. "The Loved Dead" by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
  20. "Deaf, Dumb, and Blind" by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
  21. "Two Black Bottles" by Wilfred Blanch Talman
  22. "The Trap" by Henry S. Whitehead
  23. "The Tree on the Hill" by Duane W. Rimel
  24. "The Disinterment" by Duane W. Rimel
  25. "'Till A’ the Seas" by R. H. Barlow
  26. "The Night Ocean" by R. H. Barlow

Arkham House

  • 2nd printing (of the first edition), 1976 - 3,958 copies.
  • corrected 3rd printing, 1989 - 5,062 copies.
  • corrected 4th printing, 1992 - 4,994 copies.
  • corrected 5th printing, 2002 - 2,500 copies.

    • Others

  • New York: Del Rey Books, 2007 (paperback reprint of the revised edition, with a new introduction by Stephen Jones).

    • References

    The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions Wikipedia
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