"IN THE END I RETURNED AND LIVED, BUT MY NIGHTS ARE FILLED WITH STRANGE MEMORIES"

LOVECRAFT, H.P. The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1970. Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket. $350.

First edition of this collection of Lovecraft's extensive revisions of tales sent to him by fellow writers, in original dust jacket designed by Gahan Wilson.

"However paradoxical it may seem, in view of his present posthumous fame as a master of the macabre, Howard Phillips Lovecraft made his scant living principally by revising and correcting manuscripts of prose and poetry sent to him by a variety of hopeful writers… These 'revisions' which are either largely or totally Lovecraft, properly belong in the Lovecraft canon… The best of these tales are certainly good enough to stand among Lovecraft's stories—and why not?—since Lovecraft wrote most of what is memorable in them!" (Introduction). "A collection of all the known 'revisions' by Lovecraft of weird tales for a variety of professional clients, taken largely from previous Arkham House volumes of Lovecraft miscellany… the one 'original' contribution is the story by Talman ["Two Black Bottles"], first published in Weird Tales for August 1927" (Joshi). One of 4058 copies printed according to Joshi (the colophon gives 4000). Joshi, Sixty Years of Arkham House 109.

Book in fine condition, in a crisp, very nearly fine dust jacket with slight toning to spine and edges.