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The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions
Dust-jacket illustration by Gahan Wilson.
AuthorH. P. Lovecraft
Cover artistGahan Wilson (original), Raymond Bayless (revised)
LanguageEnglish
GenreFantasy, horror, science fiction
PublisherArkham House
Publication date
1970 (original), 1989 (revised)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pagesix., 383 (original), x. 450 (revised)
ISBN0-87054-040-8
OCLC18715164
813/.52 19
LC ClassPS3523.O833 H6 1989

The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions is a collection of stories revised or ghostwritten by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was originally published in 1970 by Arkham House in an edition of 4,058 copies. The dustjacket of the first edition features art by Gahan Wilson.

The collection was revised in 1989 by S. T. Joshi adding an introduction by Joshi, correcting the texts and expanding the contents.

In 2007, Del Rey published a trade paperback version with a new introduction by Stephen Jones, and a brief biography of Lovecraft at the end.

The revised version of Lovecraft's revisions includes Henry S. Whitehead's "The Trap" but not the other two stories by Whitehead in which Lovecraft had a hand ("Cassius" and "Bothon"). The revised version also includes two collaborations by Lovecraft with Robert H. Barlow, but not the other tales on which they worked together, of which there are four or five. Sonia Greene's "Four O'Clock" is omitted from the revised version, S.T. Joshi having determined that this tale is not properly a part of the Lovecraft corpus; the story is entirely Sonia's, Lovecraft having simply made a few suggestions as to its prose style.

Contents

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Original

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The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions (original 1970 edition) contains the following 21 tales:

  1. "Lovecraft's 'Revisions'" by August Derleth
  2. "The Crawling Chaos" with Elizabeth Berkeley
  3. "The Green Meadow" with Elizabeth Berkeley
  4. "The Invisible Monster" by Sonia Greene
  5. "Four O'Clock" by Sonia Greene
  6. "The Man of Stone" by Hazel Heald
  7. "Winged Death" by Hazel Heald
  8. "The Loved Dead" by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
  9. "Deaf, Dumb, and Blind" by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
  10. "The Ghost-Eater" by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
  11. "To All the Seas" by Robert H. Barlow
  12. "The Horror in the Museum" by Hazel Heald
  13. "Out of the Eons" by Hazel Heald
  14. "The Diary of Alonzo Typer" by William Lumley
  15. "The Horror in the Burying-Ground" by Hazel Heald
  16. "The Last Test" by Adolphe de Castro
  17. "The Electric Executioner" by Adolphe de Castro
  18. "The Curse of Yig" by Zealia Bishop
  19. "Medusa's Coil" by Zealia Bishop
  20. The Mound by Zealia Bishop
  21. "Two Black Bottles" by Wilfred Blanch Talman

Revised

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Cover by Raymond Bayless of the 1989 corrected third printing of The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions

The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions (revised 1989 edition, designated by the publisher a "corrected third printing") contains the following 26 tales:

  1. "A Note on the Texts" by S.T. Joshi
  2. "Lovecraft's 'Revisions'" by August Derleth
  3. "The Green Meadow" with Elizabeth Berkely
  4. "The Crawling Chaos" with Elizabeth Berkely
  5. "The Last Test" by Adolphe de Castro
  6. "The Electric Executioner" by Adolphe de Castro
  7. "The Curse of Yig" by Zealia Bishop
  8. The Mound by Zealia Bishop
  9. "Medusa's Coil" by Zealia Bishop
  10. "The Man of Stone" by Hazel Heald
  11. "The Horror in the Museum" by Hazel Heald
  12. "Winged Death" by Hazel Heald
  13. "Out of the Aeons" by Hazel Heald
  14. "The Horror in the Burying-Ground" by Hazel Heald
  15. "The Diary of Alonzo Typer" by William Lumley
  16. "The Horror at Martin’s Beach" by Sonia H. Greene
  17. "Ashes" by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
  18. "The Ghost-Eater" by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
  19. "The Loved Dead" by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
  20. "Deaf, Dumb, and Blind" by C. M. Eddy, Jr.
  21. "Two Black Bottles" by Wilfred Blanch Talman
  22. "The Trap" by Henry S. Whitehead
  23. "The Tree on the Hill" by Duane W. Rimel
  24. "The Disinterment" by Duane W. Rimel
  25. "'Till A’ the Seas" by R. H. Barlow
  26. "The Night Ocean" by R. H. Barlow

Notes

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References

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  • Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. pp. 95–96. ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
  • Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 107, 135–136. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.
  • Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. pp. 45, 57.
  • Joshi, S. T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. pp. 109, 159–160. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
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