Cosmic Horror Classics
The Call of Cthulhu and The King in Yellow
Eldritch. Cyclopean. Carcosa. At last, you’ll know.
H. P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu and eleven more stories, and Robert W. Chambers’s The King in Yellow, the book H. P. Lovecraft borrowed names from. A note before every story and a glossary of the strange words.
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Why these books
Finally know what eldritch means
Cyclopean: built of blocks so vast the Greeks thought only giants could raise them. The glossaries explain eldritch, gibbous and squamous, and Chambers’s French and studio slang too.
Follow the play no one should read
Chambers never prints more than a few lines of his play. Our guide gathers what his four linked tales let slip, from Cassilda to the Pallid Mask, and traces Carcosa and Hastur to Ambrose Bierce.
Watch an invented country grow
Arkham and the Miskatonic first show up in story 2; Kingsport and Dunwich come later. The note before every story points you to where a town, a book or a being returns.
See where the names went next
Hastur, the Lake of Hali and the Yellow Sign turn up again in an H. P. Lovecraft story of 1931. The introduction to The King in Yellow tells how.
Never reach for your phone
An introduction for today’s reader, a who’s who and a glossary of old and unfamiliar words in every book: the context, without the research.
To keep or to give
Hardcovers printed on rigid boards with a matte finish, each with its ebook (EPUB + PDF). Order to your own address or straight to someone else’s.
Two books of cosmic horror, in one order:
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Tales: 12 of H. P. Lovecraft’s stories in their 1920s magazine texts, from the title story and The Colour Out of Space to Pickman’s Model and The Dunwich Horror. 242 pages.
The King in Yellow: Robert W. Chambers’s book of 1895, all ten stories with Cassilda’s Song and his epigraphs, and a guide to the imaginary play at its heart. 228 pages.
Every book is a Reader’s Companion Edition, the same edition sold on its own page. Each opens with an introduction for today’s reader and sets a short reader’s note before every chapter, letter, story or poem: whose voice you are hearing, where and when, and what to notice. Each also has a who’s who of the characters and a glossary of old and unfamiliar words. The two share one design, 6 × 9 inches on cream paper, so they stand together on a shelf.
Read them with the lights low.
The two books
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Tales
Twelve Stories of Cosmic Horror
Twelve stories in their 1920s magazine texts, a glossary of his strange words, a note before every story. Read it with the lights low.
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The King in Yellow
Stories
The complete 1895 text, with a guide to the play, a note before each story and a glossary. Read it slowly, with the lights on.
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