The Dunwich Horror - Short Story Collection

Short Story Collection

The Dunwich Horror and Others is the name of a collection of H. P. Lovecraft short stories published by Arkham House, containing what August Derleth considered to be the best of Lovecraft's shorter fiction. Originally published in 1963, the 6th printing in 1985 included extensive corrections by S. T. Joshi in order to produce the definitive edition of Lovecraft's works. The collection has an introduction by Robert Bloch, titled "Heritage of Horror", reprinted from the 1982 Ballantine collection, Blood Curdling Tales of Supernatural Horror: The Best of H.P. Lovecraft.

The stories included in The Dunwich Horror and Others are:

  • "In the Vault"
  • "Pickman's Model"
  • "The Rats in the Walls"
  • "The Outsider"
  • "The Colour Out of Space"
  • "The Music of Erich Zann"
  • "The Haunter of the Dark"
  • "The Picture in the House"
  • "The Call of Cthulhu"
  • "The Dunwich Horror"
  • "Cool Air"
  • "The Whisperer in Darkness"
  • "The Terrible Old Man"
  • "The Thing on the Doorstep"
  • "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"
  • "The Shadow Out of Time"

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