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P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos and the history of its preservation and development after his death. The text explains Lovecraft’s pursuit of the ideal supernatural terror tale, his influences from Poe, Blackwood, Machen, and Dunsany, and his rejection of over-explained occult conventions. 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Arkham House Publishers,Inc.  \nI997 Barnes &Noble Books  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any mannerwhatsoever without the written permission of the Publisher.  \nBook design by Leah Lococo  \nISBN o-7607-0253-5  \nPrinted and bound in the United States of America  \n97989900 or M98765432 I  \nGONTENTS  \nEDITOR's NOTE vii  \nINTRODUCTION ix  \nTHE DERLETH MYTHOs 1  \nTHE DWELLER IN DA RKNESS  \nBEYOND THE TH RESHOLD  \nTHE THIN G THAT WA L KE D ON THE WIND  \nITHAQUA 76  \nTHE PAS SI NG 0F ERIC HO L M  \nS OMETHING FROM 0UT THE RE  \n# THE MASK OF GTHULHU 111\n\nORIGINAL INTRODUCTIONTO THE MASK OF CTHULHU112  \nT HE RETU RN 0F H ASTU R113THE W HIPPO0 RWIL LS IN TH E HI L LS139S OME THIN G IN WO0D169THE SA NDWIN COMPA CT182T HE HOUSE IN THE VAL LEY204THE SEAL 0F R'LYE H231  \n# THE TRAIL OF GTHULHU 257\n\nTHE H OUSE 0N CURWE N STREE T259TH E WATCH E R FROM TH E SKY302TH E G ORG E BEYOND SA LAPUN CO341THE KE EPER 0F THE KEY377TH E B LA CK ISLA N D411  \nA NOTE ON THE CTHULHU MYTHOS 445  \n# E DITOR'S NOTE\n\nI HAVE JUST DIScOVERED a boy of seventeen who promises to de-velop into something of a fantaisiste.He is August W.Derleth...&turnsout to be a veritable little prodigy;devoted to Dunsany &Machen,&ambi-tious to excel in their chosen field.\"  \nIn writing the above words to one of his correspondents in 1926,H.P.Lovecraft could not have realized that he had just encountered the singlemost significant figure in the advancement of his posthumous renown.Au-gust Derleth soon became a member of the legendary Lovecraft Circle ofwriters,who contributed Mythos-related stories to Weird Tales magazine,butmore importantly,after Lovecraft's death in 1937 Derleth founded the pub-lishing firm of Arkham House to preserve the darkly enduring legacy of hisgreat friend.  \nIn recognition of August Derleth’s lifelong dedication to H.P.Lovecraftand his work,all of Derleth's own noncollaborative contributions to theCthulhu Mythos are collected in the present volume.The opening DerlethMythos section presents the author's idiosyncratic interpretation of theMythos as forces of good versus evil;The Mask of Cthulbu section includesa story,\"“The Return of Hastur,\"that was partly read and critiqued byLovecraft himself shortly before his death;and The Irail of Cthulbu is an  \ninterconnected five-part novel featuring Derleth's most intriguing contribu-tion to the Mythos,Dr.Laban Shrewsbury.No one but August Derlethcould have captured so skillfully the mood and design of H.P.Lovecraft'sCthulhu Mythos and yet done so in a manner all his own.  \n—JAMES TURNER  \nI996  \n# INTRODUCTION\n\nH.P.LOVECRAFT AND THE Mythos he created are among the pin-nacles of the weird tale.That they are now widely appreciated as such is duein a number of ways to the efforts of his friend and literary pupil AugustDerleth.  \nLet me start with Lovecraft.For the two decades preceding his death inI937 he set about trying to create the perfect form for the tale of supernat-ural terror.His seminal essay Supernatural Horror in Literature records his ex-ploration of the classics of the genre,particularly British and American.Among the writers he praises most highly are Edgar Allan Poe,AlgernonBlackwood,Arthur Machen and Lord Dunsany,and he learned from all ofthem,thus becoming the first writer to unite the British and American tra-ditions of the field.Poe showed him singleness of effect and how to suitone's prose to it;in Blackwood he admired the sense of alien beings and di-mensions invading our own,while from Machen he borrowed the notion ofan inhuman past lurking in the present.At the same time he did his best toavoid the failings which he found in even his favourite writers—in Poe,whatLovecraft saw as a lack of cosmic vision;in Blackwood,too much Victorianoccult jargon,no doubt deriving from Blackwood's membe","cbCaikXFZhUmB1M5","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikXFZhUmB1M5","pdf",379903,18,"English","# Editor's Note\n# Introduction\n## Lovecraft and the Mythos he created\n## August Derleth and the Arkham House legacy","[{\"question\":\"What does the introduction say about Lovecraft’s goals for weird fiction?\",\"answer\":\"It describes Lovecraft as seeking the perfect form for supernatural terror and using his prose to achieve a single, effective impact. 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