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Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre (2011)

por H. P. Lovecraft

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Following on from the phenomenal success of NECRONOMICON comes ELDRITCH TALES. Howard Phillips Lovecraft died at the age of 47, but in his short life he turned out dozens of stories which changed the face of horror. His extraordinary imagination spawned both the Elder God Cthulhu and his eldritch cohorts, and the strangely compelling town of Innsmouth, all of which feature within these pages. This collection gathers together the rest of Lovecraft's rarely seen but extraordinary short fiction, including the whole of the long-out-of-print collection FUNGI FROM YOGGOTH. Many of these stories have never been available in the UK! Stephen Jones, one of the world's foremost editors of dark fiction, will complete the Lovecraft story in his extensive afterword, and award-winning artist Les Edwards will provide numerous illustrations for this must-have companion volume to NECRONOMICON.… (mais)
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Eldritch Tales: A miscellany of the Macabre
H.P. Lovecraft was a fascinating poet and writer of the 1920's. He was also a big fan of Edgar Allan Poe, which is obvious in some of his work, that it was influenced by Poe. I can also say that I am a big fan of Edgar Allan Poe as well. In the supernatural horror in literature essay by H.P. Lovecraft himself,he gives his opinion on other writer's work and criticizes it as well. This book like the Necronomicon contains the lesser known work by H.P. Lovecraft, but it has a refreshing mix of short stories and poetry and like the Necronomicon, it is beautifully bound in leather and illustrated.
The following will be a list of the contents within the book, and I will give a summary of the stories and poems in this book.
Their may be some spoilers sorry :/ Beside all my favourite stories/poetry I will but this symbol *

Contents:
The History of the Necronomicon*
The Alchemist*
The reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson
The Beast in the Cave*
The Po-et's Nightmare (Poem)*
Memory
Despair (Poem)
The Picture in the House*
Beyond the Wall of Sleep*
Psychopompos- A Tale in Rhyme*
The White Ship
The House (Poem)
The Nightmare Lake (Poem)*
Poetry and the Gods (With Anna Helen Crofts)*
Nyarlathotep*
Polaris
The Street*
Ex Oblivione*
Facts concerning the late Jermyn and his family*
The Crawling Chaos (With Winifred Virginia Jackson)
The Terrible Old Man*
The Tree
The Tomb*
Celephais
Hypnos*
What the Moon Brings*
The Horror at Martin's Beach (With Sonia H. Greene)*
The Festival
The Temple
Hallowe'en in a Suburb (Poem)*
The Moon-Bog*
He*
Festival (Poem)
The Green Meadow (With Winifred Virginia Jackson)
Nathicana (Poem)*
Two Black Bottles (With Winifred Blanch Talmon)*
The Last Test (With Adolphe De Castro)*
Fungi from Yuggoth:
1-The Book
2-The Pursuit
3-The Key
4-Recognition
5-Homecoming
6-The Lamp
7-Zaman's Hill
8-The Port
9-The Courtyard*
10-The Pigeon-Flyers
11-The Well
12-The Howler*
13-Hesperia
14-Star-winds*
15-Antarktos
16-The Window
17-A Memory*
18-The Gardens of Yin
19-The Bells*
20-Night-Gaunts*
21-Nyarlathotep*
22-Azathoth
23-Mirage
24-The Canal
25-St Toads*
26-The Familiars*
27-The Elder Pharos
28-Expectancy
29-Nostalgia
30-Background
31-The Dweller*
32-Alienage
33-Harbour Whistles
34-Recapture
35-Evening Star
36-Continuity
The Trap (With Henry s. Whitehead)
The Other Gods
The Quest of Iranon
The Challenge from Beyond
In a Sequester'd Providence Churchyard Where Once Poe Walk'd*
Ibid
Azathoth
The Descendent
The Book
The Evil Clergyman*
The Very Old Folk
The Thing in the Moonlight
The Transition of Juan Romero
Supernatural Horror in Literature*
Afterword Lovecraft in Britain By Stephen Jones*
Collaborations and other Revisions

History of the Necronomicon: The historical information is insightful, and interesting information about the abhorrent Necronomicon.
The Alchemist: This is a good story about French characters that are cursed with witchcraft.
The Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson: This story is about the journal and last remaining thoughts of a dying man.
The Beast in the Cave: This is a good short story about a beast in a cave, that a man discovers.
The Po-et's Nightmare (Poem):This poem is about demons
Memory: This short story is about apes that are man, the first of their kind.
Despair (Poem): Another poem about demons. (I will add a bit more detail about them when I have re-read them)
The Picture in the House: This story is about a picture of grotesque origin and a haunted book about cannibals.
Beyond the Wall of Sleep: A mentally ill man, in an institution is plagued by nightmares that result in his death. He is afraid to sleep, because when he does he dreams, and he has nightmares.
Psychopompos-A Tale in Rhyme: This is a poem about wolves and demons, it is similar to Poe's writing style. H.P. Lovecraft was a big fan of Poe's work so his influence is recognizable in Lovecraft's work, since I am also a fan of Edgar Allan Poe as well.
The White Ship: The boat in the story is used to travel to strange distant lands.
The House (Poem): This is a poem about Forgotten memories.
The Nightmare Lake (Poem): This is a poem about creatures in a lake being devoured.
Poetry and the Other Gods (With Anna Helen Crofts): This is a poem about artisans and poets, one of them is the muse and poet of the Gods in Olympus. I really liked this story, since I am really interested in Greek Mythology and Artisans of the 18-20th Century from all over the world, they are interesting, intelligent people, and they inspire me.
Polaris: This story is about an alien race that exists in a dream world.
The Street: This short story was about an ancient street that had a soul, that is affected by a necromancer.
Ex Oblivione: This short story was about demons that exist, in a secret place that you can visit but not return from.
Facts concerning the late Jermyn and his family: This story is about the Jermyn family. There was madness within the Jermyn family and they all posses obscure facial features. There was "an object" in a box that was of strange and terrifying origin. The protagonist turned out to not be human, he was of an unknown race, that was not from our world.
The Crawling Chaos (With Winifred Virginia Jackson):
De Quincey is the main character in the story, he used opium to avoid sentient beings that wished to harm him.
Hypnos: Two people in this story do whatever is possible for themselves to avoid sleep at all costs, no matter what. They both avoid sleep, in the aid of a drug that they both take. Time is dis-proportioned and at a rate that is out of their control and beyond our laws of time and science.
What the Moon Brings: A dead sea creature arises from the sea and it is powered by the moon. Other dead creatures also awaken, whenever the moon glows.
The horror at Martin's Beach (With Sonia H. Greene): A strange and unique creature is washed ashore, a group of men are curious and go and investigate what it is. However, they get pulled into the water by the strange creature and die, while something is laughing in the background unseen.
The Festival: An ancient sea town celebrates forgotten hideous ceremonies during their festival of Yuletide. They perform hideous rituals and summon demons.
The Temple: The Main character in this story, is a German Imperial Navy Officer named Karl Heinrich Graf Von Altberg upon the U-29.
The Imperial Navy discovers Atlantis, after the U-boat falls to the bottom of the ocean. One of the crewmen kept a strange coin in his hand most of the time, since he was superstitious. However whenever a person was in possession of this coin, it had a strange affect on them psychologically. It caused visual hallucinations and drove the crewmen mad. Karl escapes the U-boat, to wander around the ancient crumbling underwater city, he discovers that the temple he found is beckoning people to it, to their death.
Hallowe'en in a Suburb (Poem): This poem is about vampires and other supernatural creatures. Dead creatures are beckoned by the moon.
The Moon-Bog: The servants and laborers are disturbed by the moon-bog since that is where the dead are including the protagonist.
The moon-bog is illuminated by the moon.
He:This short story is about a man with knowledge of ancient civilizations, that is a guide to a fellow antiquarian. He is also a necromancer and shows off his powers.
Festival (Poem): This poem is about cannibalistic druids.
The Green Meadow (With Winifred Virginia Jackson): Fishermen have found a slate rock or meteorite, that contained a strange book inside. People started chanting in the green meadow.
Nathicana (Poem): This poem is about a godlike, pure beautiful being the land of it's people is destroyed by the presence of a demon.
Two Black Bottles(With Winifred Blanch Talmon): The main character Vanderhoof is in league with the devil. Another character Abel Foster is similar to him, but he is a grave robber.
The Last Test (With Adolphe De Castro): A scientist (Dr. Claredon) sets out to create a cure for the disease black fever, he had good intentions, but along the line he becomes very cruel and evil. He is cruel especially to his animal specimen and eventually to his sister and assistant Surama. Dr. Claredon, does experiments on his sister's dog, but it later dies.
The antidote he created for the black fever disease is not yet perfected, so that is why he has animal specimens in cages. It is not quite ready for human testing. Surama his evil assistant that always chuckles is neither living or dead or entirely human when he is killed in a fire, when Dr. Claredon burnt the animal specimens, his sister's dog and his assistant Surama. Surama's remains look human, even though while he was alive, he looked like he was anything but human.
Dr. Claredon is bewitched by Surama and the primordial gods that he worships. Surama chuckles at the pain or destruction or others human or animal alike. However the last time he chuckled was when Dr. Clarendon said that his sister would be the first human subject for the antidote that he created, even though it would have unstable results and result in her death. When it fails to work he burns all of his specimens, his research.
I don't like the fact that this story involved animal cruelty, like the story The Cats of Ulthar.
The Wood: This poem is about a wood that has been destroyed, but the dead have awoken upon words that have been spoken there.
The Ancient Track: This poem is about an ancient track that no one knows about except the person that discovered it.
The Electric Executioner (With Adolphe De Castro): A man left the mining company that he works for with important legal documents.
The main character needs to retrieve them, so he travels by train, where he notices to his annoyance another person, in the carriage opposite him. The man notices that the strange passenger is possessively holding a suitcase that contains a strange devise.
The devise affects the man's appearance and time itself. The man that is holding the suitcase radiates light, but no one ever pays enough attention to notice. The man, wishes to use the other passenger as his first human test subject. The end result of the story was that the man was either never really there or he disappeared completely. I think that the tired passenger fell, asleep and had a very vivid dream, since that would explain why he wasn't there when he woke up.

Fungi From Yuggoth (Poetry):
1-The Book: Old crumbling books in a library are discovered.
2-Pursuit: Someone is in pursuit of the book thief.
3-The Key: The book thief has acquired key, the person that is in pursuit of him, is fumbling at the window of his house.
4-Recognition: An altar was discovered, the man recognized that he was inhuman and feasted upon a human being.
5-Homecoming: The man is reminded of his home by a demon.
6-The Lamp: The man discovered a lamp in the hollow cliff side. There is also a scroll with written incantations and obscure symbols all over it.
7-Zaman's Hill: Dead animals, and dead people were supposedly found. People have also disappeared.
8-The Port: An eerie port shrouded in darkness.
9-The Courtyard: A courtyard full of corpses that have no hands or heads.
10-The Pigeon-Flyers: There are lots of evil pigeons from other-worldly lands.
11-The Well: Two farmers are trying to cover up a well, one of them went insane while the other covered the well and killed himself.
12-The Howler: An animal with four paws but a human face was discovered howling in pain.
13-Hesperia: Sphinxes, the river of time. The land has never been soiled by humans.
14-Star-Winds:
Twilight gloom's inspiring poets of forgotten ancient alien lore.
15-Antarktos: A distant forgotten land that is dimly guessed by the elder gods what actually inhabits it.
16-The Window: An old house with a window sealed with stone.A blast of air unveiled a dream world in another reality.
17-A Memory: At a campsite, a dead cloaked form appears.
18-The Gardens of Yin: Moss covered towers with terraced gardens.
19-The Bells: The bells recoil buried memories, summoning people to the sea.
20-Night Gaunts: Creatures crawling out of a crypt, they are horned demons with wings and tails, they are taking a man to a hideous lake.
21-Nyarlothotep: Ancient mummies bow down to Nyarlathotep and wait for his command, to arise and play hideous ancient music and dance.
22-Azathoth: In the presence of a demon, where there is no space or shape to anything that is natural, only chaos exists in this realm of the demon.
23-Mirage: A vague image of a floating world, that may or may not exist.
24-The Canal: An evil place, that has a spectral glow.
25-St. Toad's: Warnings from the toad's of the chimes of the bell's.
26-The familiar's: John Whately is talking to his demon familiars. The town, that he lives in believes that he is mad.
27-The Elder Pharos: Ancient elder beings that still communicate with their brethren.
28-Expectancy: Expectancy of unrivaled marvels in the universe.
29-Nostalgia: Birds wish to return to a land of their memories.
30-Background: A land remembered from childhood dreams.
31-The Dweller: A long forgotten buried secret in ancient times, that a dweller discovers and then leaves with it.
32-Alienation:A creature that does not belong in our time, our even in our world.
33-Harbour Whistles: Sounds emanate from a ship that no one else other than the main character in the poetry has ever heard before or since.
34-Recaptured: The man was recaptured back into the dream-world.
35-Evening Star: The rays of the evening star reveals the man's lost home.
36-Continuity: Without any form or weight ancient beings are connected to time and space in our world.
The Trap (With Henry S. Whitehead): A teacher posses a strange ancient mirror, one of his students has gone missing and is now stuck in the mirror. There is a portal-lie entrance to the mirror, that sucks people in and traps them there forever, so long as the mirror is still intact they will remain stuck there.
The Other Gods: This short story is about elder Gods that miss their land and want it back.
The quest of Iranon: The prince of Iranon, a singer wishes to own the land of his childhood memories. Iranon is supposedly dead, but he still remains at the end of the story.
Thew Challenge from Beyond: This story is about ancient beings that are travelling trans-galactic gulfs of space with their minds. They are worm-like in appearance, they use a human being's body as a vessel, in which they are able to animate.
In a Sequester'd Providence Where Once Poe Walk'd:Edgar Allan Poe spectral form is walking around in a graveyard, which is befitting of the style of poetry and short stories that he wrote.
Ibid: A writer/scribe in Roman times is murdered and his skull is passed between leaders of invaders.
Azathoth: "Mere walls and windows soon drive a man to madness" Edgar Allan Poe Quote A dreamer glimpses a fascinating world at night time.
The Descendant: A man shrieks at the sound of the church bells ringing he lives by himself, and it driven mad by the sound they make. The main character is dying and wishes to avoid all forms of thought, anything that might inspire his imagination is abhorrent to him. Lord Northam is a descendant of an ancient castle, in his mind and soul, he holds the key to other worlds.
The Book: A worm-infested book was discovered in a ancient decaying room. It contained a key or guide, that opened a way to beyond our realm of three dimensions.The man felt as if someone was following him, after he discovered the book. He has no memory who he is, or if he had a family, or even the year that he was alive. His soul was temporarily separated from his body when he was chanting incantations from the book that he found.
The Messenger (Poem): To Bertrand K. Esq. This poem is about the arrival of a demon.
The Evil Clergyman: An evil clergyman performed evil rites at the church, the other priests are very afraid of him, and won't even say his name. They refer to him as "him", "it" or the evil clergyman.
The other priests are unaware of the grave of the evil clergyman.
An object was left on a table and the priest said not to tamper with it. Another person, was curious and they did pick up the object, it hurt his mind and personality till it drove him to insanity and he shot himself. This man became the evil clergyman, that the other priests are afraid of.
The very Old Folk: Strange older mountain folk, that speak very fast perform hideous rituals. Some people have gone missing, these people might have from their tribe and were sacrificed, in their rituals. People from the tribe have noticed their absence, and they are curious about what happened to them. Tethered horses at the bottom of the mountains screamed as a man killed himself, and a group of centurions were seized by flying demon.
The Thing in the Moonlight: A man unable to speak English coherently suddenly feels the urge to write in English. He was haunted, by a man howling at him in a strange dream-world every time he fell asleep.
The Transition of Juan Romero:Juan Romero, a Mexican miner died during a strange storm and stole his friend's ring. It might have a been a dream, or it may have been real.
Supernatural Horror in Literature: This essay is about influential and possibly lesser know, authors of supernatural horror in literature in the 18th-19th century and on-wards. Of course Edgar Allan Poe is mentioned among some of the greatest authors of supernatural horror fiction or horror in general. Some are known to me, while others are of a foreign land so I have not ever heard of them or read their work, but I look forward to discovering new authors of influence in this genre of writing.
Afterword-Lovecraft in Britain: This afterword is very informative, as was the information about H.P. Lovecraft in the Necronomicon. It was interesting to read, but I never quite understood why. H.P. Lovecraft never bothered to claim, intellectual property rights of his short stories and poetry so no one could illegally publish it with his or August Derleth's permission.
This book was much like the Necronomicon, because it is a collection of stories by H.P.Lovecraft but also contains poetry. It was refreshing to be able to read poetry between the short stories, since before reading this book I wasn't aware that H.P. Lovecraft wrote poetry. Some of the short stories however, seemed like they were rushed, when they written, and the story wasn't long enough for anything interesting to happen. Most of them seemed like they were half a story, since they were only a few pages long. I liked reading this book, and would recommend this to fans of H.P. Lovecraft. I like the poetry and the beautiful illustrations, just like in the Necronomicon.
I also have the complete collection of his work, and I intend to read that, the second Anthology comic book as well as a Necronomicon by Alan Moore and a book about the films that were made based on his work. ( )
  EvilCreature | Sep 7, 2022 |
More accurately, a miscellany of Lovecraft. Blackstone Audio had already put together two almost definitive multi-voiced collections of the master: “Necronomicon” covering his great horror tales, and “Dreams of Terror and Death” covering his dark fantasy tales. This collection is full of the stuff that most “Best of Lovecraft” anthologies leave out. Included here are the master’s less regarded horror stories, stories already performed in “Dreams” and regurgitated here for filler, his poetry, his collaborations with other authors, and his essay on the history of horror stories, “Supernatural Horror in Literature.”

I feel that the lesser regarded stories are usually less regarded for a reason, but I did enjoy listening to them being performed. (Favorite example: the solemn Stefan Rudnicki reading “The Temple” with a slight German accent.) I was didn’t dislike the poetry, but I wonder if that is because it was good or that I can’t tell poetry from doggerel. I enjoyed one collaboration, “The Crawling Chaos,” a superb apocalyptic vision. I hated the others. I would recommend them for the library at Guantanamo. I wouldn’t listen to them again unless a track of Mike, John, and Kevin was added. As for “Supernatural Horror in Literature,” well, look at my latest acquisitions on Library Thing. Thank you, Mr. Lovecraft, I’m sure I will enjoy them. ( )
  Coach_of_Alva | Jun 1, 2016 |
This is a really wonderful collection, beautifully design'd & with very good illustrations. One of the book's finest features is its inclusion of Lovecraft's wonderful poetry. Despite what some clueless critics may express, Lovecraft's poems are often superb, "Fungi from Yuggoth" being a good example. I have found these sonnets so evocative that they inspir'd me to write an entire book of prose poems that are influenced by "Fungi from Yuggoth." ELDRITCH TALES gives us that curious mock-document, "History of the NECRONOMICON," and prints the first side of Lovecraft's handwritten draft of the piece. We are also presented with some unfinished fragments such as "The Descendant" and "The Book" -- the latter of which was Lovecraft's futile attempt to write out "Fungi from Yuggoth" in short story form. The book also includes the very queer story, "Hypnos," which I have been studying of late. Although I do not think that Lovecraft was gay, "Hypnos" contains a sentiment that is almost homoerotic in nature -- almost. The book concludes with an extraordinarily fine and informative essay by its editor, "Lovecraft in Britain." I can highly recommend this book. The texts are sometimes questionable, not being the definitive texts edited by S. T. Joshi.
3 vote wilum | Jan 14, 2014 |
This is the second volume of the macabre output of H.P.Lovecraft. While the first volume contained the major stories,this second one is rather more of a mixed bag. Let me say from the start that it is fantastic to have all but the very least of his tales published in these two volumes. Even these it is hinted may be published in the fullness of time.
'Eldritch Tales' contains fifty six separate items - short stories,poems and essays by Lovecraft. These vary considerably in quality,from 'The Terrible Old Man', 'The Temple' and 'Hypnos',which are as good as anything he wrote. At the other end of the scale are several of his unfortunate collaborations and his truly terrible poems -'Fungi From Yuggoth' being a good example.
That being said,this is a book which any Lovecraft enthusiast must own,because with these pair of well-produced volumes you will have in your hands (or claws) most of HPL's tales from the pit & from space that you will ever need. ( )
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Following on from the phenomenal success of NECRONOMICON comes ELDRITCH TALES. Howard Phillips Lovecraft died at the age of 47, but in his short life he turned out dozens of stories which changed the face of horror. His extraordinary imagination spawned both the Elder God Cthulhu and his eldritch cohorts, and the strangely compelling town of Innsmouth, all of which feature within these pages. This collection gathers together the rest of Lovecraft's rarely seen but extraordinary short fiction, including the whole of the long-out-of-print collection FUNGI FROM YOGGOTH. Many of these stories have never been available in the UK! Stephen Jones, one of the world's foremost editors of dark fiction, will complete the Lovecraft story in his extensive afterword, and award-winning artist Les Edwards will provide numerous illustrations for this must-have companion volume to NECRONOMICON.

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