The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales of Horror.
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£250.00
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London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. 1951.
Who is Lovecraft? H.P.Lovecraft's first appearance in the UK.
First UK edition. 8vo. 183x120mm. pp. [4], 5-303 [1bl]. Orange cloth, original yellow Gollancz jacket. Some fading to edges of boards. Chipping to edges of jacket and at head of spine and some soiling to spine and lower cover of jacket. Internally very good. A nice copy of the first collection of Lovecraft's work published outside America. This selection brings together ten of his best stories including "The Rats in the Walls" and "The Call of Cthulhu", the latter introducing Lovecraft's evil monster of that name and its fictional universe of malevolent forces ready to subsume the world.
H.P.Lovecraft died, aged forty-seven, in 1937 having achieved little material success, his stories appearing in cheap pulp magazines and never published in book form. After his death however, his wildly imaginative fantasy stories gained a cult following in America but it wasn't until the early 1950s that they crossed the Atlantic when they were presented to an unsuspecting public in the form of this collection, hence the question on the front cover "Who is Lovecraft?" and the useful introduction by his protégé August Derleth.