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Mannikin
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"H.P. Lovecraft's Collection"
Having recently gotten a Nook, I wanted to purchase something (I usually download books from the library). I also wanted something cheap, simply to try out how it works, and I came upon the "H.P. Lovecraft's Collection" at B&N.
Ninety-nine cents (plus tax) for 58 of Lovecraft's stories! Over 1400 pages! Can't beat that. | |||||||||||
01-28-2012 | #2 | |||||||||||
Grimscribe
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Re: "H.P. Lovecraft's Collection"
I don't have Kindle or Nook, but I am very curious about the text of this ebook version of the Barnes & Noble edition of Lovecraft. The initial edition of the book was filled with hundreds of typographical errors that crept into the texts due to lack of proofing. The book had a second Corrected edition published last year. But I'm wondering if the text in the electric edition is the one marred by typos or the Corrected texts. It's a GREAT collection of Lovecraft's fiction and includes some few rather rare items.
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Acolyte
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Re: "H.P. Lovecraft's Collection"
Actually, you can beat that. CthulhuChick put together the complete works and, since they are in the public domain, gives it away for free in your choice of formats. Good quality, too; she went at as a labor of love.
Free Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft for Nook and Kindle Cthulhu Chick | |||||||||||
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02-01-2012 | #4 | |||||||||||
Acolyte
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Re: "H.P. Lovecraft's Collection"
Oh, and hiya Willum!
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Re: "H.P. Lovecraft's Collection"
Hey, buddy--welcome to this amazing forum! | |||||||||||
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Acolyte
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Re: "H.P. Lovecraft's Collection"
Hope you're feeling better. | |||||||||||
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Re: "H.P. Lovecraft's Collection"
I'll second those sentiments from Neal, Willum. I have been out of commission for awhile too (cyber-speaking), but I'm coming out of my shell again. I've been really enjoying and admiring your stories recently too. I, too, hope you're feeling better of late.
Neal, thanks so much for that link. About a year ago, I started rereading HPL's stories, essays, etc. This will help fill in the gaps methinks. Now I want to reread all of his extant letters. Those brilliant missives changed my life as much or even more than his fiction did when I first was exposed to them as a teenager. | |||||||||||
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Re: "H.P. Lovecraft's Collection"
S. T. and Derrick at Hippocampus continue their project of bringing ALL of H. P. Lovecraft's letters into print. Just publish'd is LETTERS TO JAMES F. MORTON, co-edited with David E. Schultz and available as trade pb. It is an important and delightful assembly of letters. The book includes the following items as Appendix: LOVECRAFT AND MORTON "Conservatism" Gone Wrong The Isaacsonio-Mortoniad Save the Old Brick Row [Christmas Greetings to James F. Morton] CORRESPONDENCE WITH WILLIAM L. BRYANT WRITINGS BY JAMES F. MORTON Fragments of a Mental Autobiography My Intellectual Evolution A Few Memories WRITINGS ABOUT JAMES F. MORTON [James F. Morton in Who's Who] Memorial of James F. Morton, by O. Ivan Lee James Ferdinand Morton, Jr., by Edward H. Cole Mortonius, by E. Hoffmann Price Comments on Mr. Price's Article, by Pearl K. Morton Jim Morton, by W. Paul Cook James Morton, by Rheinhart Kleiner Lovecraft's letters do indeed cast their own spell and really reveal the man--his agonies & ecstasies, his brilliance and ignorance, his humor and his serious approach to Literary Art. It wasn't until I read the SELECTED LETTERS in the early 1970's, when I first became interested in HPL, that I became an obsessed Lovecraft fanboy. I am that fanboy still, thank Yuggoth. Hippocampus Press is hoping to bring out the combined correspondence of H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith this year in two hardcover volumes, and those volumes will sell out instantly, so once they are announced those interested will want to order them without hesitation. Another major contribution from Hippocampus Press are their books of Lovecraft studies. My favorite Lovecraft scholar is the fantastic Robert H. Waugh, and his just-published A MONSTER OF VOICES: SPEAKING FOR H. P. LOVECRAFT, is intoxicating. Here is ye book's Contents: INTRODUCTION FUTURE SORTIES The Blasted Heath in "The Colour out of Space" Lovecraft and Lawrence on the Hidden Gods "The Rats in the Walls," The Rats in the Trenches The Hounds of Hell, the Hounds of Heaven, and the Hounds of Earth The Ecstasies of "The Thing on the Doorstep," "Medusa's Coil," and Other Erotic Studies FREE RANGE Bloch and Leiber: the Siblings at War with Lovecraft, the Compound Ghost The Weird Historical Novel: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and Other Historical Volumes "Hey Yew, Why Don't Ye Say Somethin'?" Lovecraft's Dramatic Monologues The Surreal and the Organic Imaginations: Lewis, Tolkien, and Lovecraft "An Exquisitely Low and Infinitely Distant Musical Note": German Romantic Opera and Lovecraft's Aesthetic and Practice FILIATIONS AND AFFINITIES Lovecraft, A Citizen of Rome Lovecraft Speaks French, in a Manner of Speaking Lovecraft and O'Neill: The New England Haunts The book is an AMAZING study, clever, insightful, astounding, hypnotic, and it has that same devotion to intelligence and Literary Art that makes TLO the finest forum online. | |||||||||||
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02-02-2012 | #9 | |||||||||||
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Re: "H.P. Lovecraft's Collection"
Does anyone have an ISBN or picture of the "corrected" HPL Barnes and Nobles book? I have the one that says "HP Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction". It's a purplish cover, but it has gold gilt edge and gold ribbon. Those were the only editions I found at the Barnes and Nobles where I live near. I haven't been able to find anything about exactly what the book looks like, the ISBN, and where the typos would be if I have the uncorrected edition. Anyone able to help?
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02-03-2012 | #10 | |||||||||||
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Re: "H.P. Lovecraft's Collection"
On the Copyright page, at the top and in italics, it says: The publisher would like to thank Martin Andersson for his help in the preparation of the texts for this edition. The finest H. P. Lovecraft site is THE H. P. LOVECRAFT ARCHIVE, and they provide a link in which all of the hundreds of Martin's corrections are listed at H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Fiction | |||||||||||
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