Nice Lovecraft Collection

[Elf_NFB]

Welcome back, Guys!

I just wanted to pass along a recent find. Barnes and Noble book store has an HP Lovecraft collection for $12. It's one of their own "library collection" editions and includes 68 stories as well as some shorts from his early youth. I've been printing out copies of the "assigned" weekly stories from the internet. It's nice to have a hard bound, bedside, edition suitable for fending off any attacking creatures of the night.

[Nasserism]

I have this as well and it is quite nice.  Well worth the 12 dollars.

[Elf_NFB]

I have this as well and it is quite nice.  Well worth the 12 dollars.

Absolutely! It's like a nice textbook for my favorite online lit-course.

[nightgaunt]

I just bought one recently, and agree it is very nice.  I wish that B&N would add Lovecraft to their leatherbound classics collection, though...  that would be sweet.

[Chris Lackey]

I bought it. It's great. It doesn't have the story fragments, but it's the most complete you'll find for $12!

[Manndroid]

This is perfect for those of you planning to spend exactly twelve dollars!

[Kaelestes]

That book may be the single greatest dollar value to page count I've ever seen. It's just too bad they didn't include any of Lovecraft's poety. Thanks for the heads up!

[TransconaSlim]

That does sound like a steal, sadly we don't have Barns and Nobels where I live.

I think that the Penguin Classics The Call of Cthulhu: And Other Weird Stories, The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories and The Dreams in the Witch House: And Other Weird Stories are the best hardcopies.  Get all three for 28.00 on Amazon.

[Genus Unknown]

I was in Barnes and Noble today, and didn't see the $12 edition, but I did find (and buy) this, Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft. In terms of value, it's nowhere near the $12 edition - it's not quite as complete, and there are several typos - but it's also bound in fake leather, it's illustrated, 878 pages, features a "map of Arkham" circa 1930, and it's pretty extensive. It contains 34 stories, including all the long pieces like AtMoM, Charles Dexter Ward, Unknown Kadath, etc. and two of his poems ("Night-Gaunts" and "To a Dreamer"). The only notable absences are "The Picture in the House," "The Temple," and "The Tomb."

It's expensive (around $30) but well-spent, I think, even if there is a $12 edition with more stuff in it.

[whpugmire]

The Barnes & Noble collection, called The Fiction, includes all of Lovecraft's original fiction that he wrote himself, excluding revisions, and each tale is introduced by editor S. T. Joshi.  He included his corrected texts versions, but for some inexplicable reason the book was not proofread and it now has more typos than probably any edition of Lovecraft!  It's a scandal.  The entire book has been corrected, but they did a recent 2nd edition with no corrections made, utterly moronic.  The texts used in the other book are the editorially-corrupt Derleth/Arkham House texts.  So neither book actually offers you the pure Lovecraft text as can be found in the brilliant three annotated  editions from Penguin Classics

[helios1014]

I have the Arkham house texts. Sold the first three when I realized that Joshi had not edited two of the books on my self. Still need to buy Dagon but otherwise my collection is compleat, that inculdes the Selcted Letters.