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The Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft
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The Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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If you want to read H.P. Lovecraft in the original collections of short stories he published during his lifetime, you will come up empty-handed. Lovecraft couldn’t find a commercial publisher willing to issue his stories in book form—the first widely-available collections were issued posthumously by Lovecraft’s friend August Derleth.

Derleth and his col…

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