The Dunwich Horror and Others
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 Dust-jacket illustration by Lee Brown Coye for The Dunwich Horror and Others | |
| Author | H. P. Lovecraft |
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| Cover artist | Lee Brown Coye |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Fantasy, horror, science fiction |
| Publisher | Arkham House |
Publication date | 1963 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | xx, 431 pp |
| ISBN | 0-87054-037-8 (revised edition) |
The Dunwich Horror and Others is a collection of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was originally published in 1963 by Arkham House in an edition of 3,133 copies.
The true first edition is not bound with head- and tailbands, and the true first-state dustjacket carries a price of $5.00 (not $6.50 as on later printings). (Reportedly some copies lack head and tailbands, indicating the true first edition, but bear the $6.50 price on the dustjacket, suggesting that the publisher ran out of first-edition dustjackets before they ran out of first-edition books, so they raised the price to $6.50, sold the remaining first-edition volumes in second-state jackets, and then started reprinting the book).
The collection was revised in 1985 by S.T. Joshi, replacing the introduction by August Derleth for one by Joshi ("A Note on the Texts") and another by Robert Bloch ("Heritage of Horror"). This edition, designated a "corrected sixth printing", was published in an edition of 4,124 copies. Bloch's Introduction was reprinted here from its first appearance in The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre.
