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H.P. LOVECRAFT IN PAPERBACK BOOKS, The First 50 Years compiled by Jeff Willmot. (2024).

A Complete Listing of the English Language editions of the Collected Works of H.P. Lovecraft in Paperback Books with All Cover Art and Printing History 1944-1994.

First printing (sold out) 50 numbered copies. Second printing, 50 numbered copies. For information and copies [email protected]

Highly recommended, full-color biblio from a Lovecraft expert and scholar.

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THE RED RAVEN LIBRARY: Stirring Tales of Old Buccaneer Days (New York: Winner Library, 1905)

American publication modeled on the penny dreadfuls. 37 issues were published in 1905 before it changed its name to Paul Jones Weekly. Instead of pirates, the focus was now on fictional adventures of John Paul Jones, a real-life naval hero of the American Revolution. 19 issues were published before it finally folded in 1906.

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RED RALPH; OR, THE DAUGHTER OF NIGHT by Percival Wolfe. (London: London Romance Company, 1866)

A Romance of the Road in the Days of Dick Turpin

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THE WOODWOSE OF CANNOCK CHASE (London, 1867)

‘The Penny Horrible was a cheap form of sensational journalism extremely popular in the second half of the 19th century. Although embellished, the stories were often based on fact and one such tale from 1867 describes an encounter with a Cannock Chase Woodwose said to have taken place one hundred years before.

The Hunstone sisters of Brockton Hall did not return from their weekly ride across Cannock Chase, and their family became concerned. The Penny Horrible describes how the young women were attacked by a Woodwose and their bodies found by Lord Hunstone and his friends. Lady Martha appeared to have been partially devoured, her remains left in a cave on the Chase. Lady Hannah had apparently escaped from the cave but had then been accidentally shot and killed by members of a search party hunting for the Woodwose.’ — Internet Archives

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LORD OF LIGHT by Roger Zelazny (New York: Doubleday, 1967) Cover by Howard Bernstein.

LORD OF LIGHT was awarded the 1968 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and nominated for a Nebula Award in the same category. Two chapters from the novel were published as novelettes in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction – "Dawn" in April 1967, and "Death and the Executioner" in June 1967.

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (New York: 1967) Cover by Grey Morrow • (New York: Avon, 1969) Cover by Ron Walotsky.

(London: Panther, 1971) Cover by Michael Johnson. • (London: Panther, 1973) Cover by Bob Haberfield

• (London: Methuen, 1986) Cover by John Harris. • (London: Gollalncz, 1999) Cover by Fred Gambino

. • (New York: HarperCollins, 2004) Cover by Steve Stones. • (China: Beijing Publishing, 2015)

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SKULL-FACE AND OTHERS by Robert E. Howard (Sauk City: Arkham House,1946) Cover by Hannes Bok.

Fantasy/horror collection. Limited to 3004 copies.

Skull-Face is a fantasy novella originally serialized in Weird Tales (October through December, 1929). Clearly influenced by Sax Rohmer's opus Fu Manchu it substitutes a resuscitated Atlantean necromancer for the Asian villain. From the center of a web of crime and deceit he means to end Western world domination in order to re-instate surviving Atlanteans (lying dormant in submerged sarcophagi) as the new ruling elite.

Wolfshead (Weird Tales, April 1926) Cover by F.M. Stevenson • The Fire of Asshurbanipal (Weird Tales, December 1936) Cover by J. Allen St. John • Shadows in Zamboula (Weird Tales, November 1935) Cover by Margaret Brundage.

Contents:

vii · Foreword · August Derleth

ix · Which Will Scarcely Be Understood (Weird Tales, October 1937)

xiii · Robert E. Howard: A Memoriam by H.P. Lovecraft (Fantasy Magazine, September 1936), as “In Memoriam: Robert E. Howard”; revised from “Robert Ervin Howard: 1906-1936” (The Phantagraph, August 1936)

xvii · A Memory of R.E. Howard by E. Hoffmann Price [A slightly different version appeared in The Ghost, May 1945 as “The Book of the Dead, Chapter 2, Robert Ervin Howard”.]

Wolfshead (Weird Tales, April 1926) [de Montour]

The Black Stone (Weird Tales, November 1931) [Cthulhu]

“The Horror from the Mound” (Weird Tales, May 1932)

The Cairn on the Headland (Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror, January 1933)

Black Canaan (Weird Tales, June 1936)

The Fire of Asshurbanipal (Weird Tales, December 1936) [Cthulhu]

“A Man-Eating Jeopard” (Cowboy Stories, June 1936) [Buckner Grimes]

The Hyborian Age (LANY Cooperative Publications, 1938) [The first half was published in The Phantagraph, (February, August, & October/November 1936)]

Skull-Face (Weird Tales, October 1929) [Kathulos]

Worms of the Earth (Weird Tales, November 1932) [Bran Mak Morn]

The Valley of the Worm (Weird Tales, February 1934) [James Allison]

“Skulls in the Stars” (Weird Tales, January 1929) [Solomon Kane]

“Rattle of Bones” (Weird Tales, June 1929) [Solomon Kane]

The Hills of the Dead (Weird Tales, August 1930) [Solomon Kane]

Wings in the Night (Weird Tales, July 1932) [Solomon Kane]

The Shadow Kingdom (Weird Tales, August 1929) [Kull]

“The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune” (Weird Tales, September 1929) [Kull]

Kings of the Night (Weird Tales, November 1930) [Bran Mak Morn; Kull]

The Phoenix on the Sword (Weird Tales, December 1932) [Conan]

The Scarlet Citadel (Weird Tales, January 1933) [Conan]

The Tower of the Elephant (Weird Tales, March 1933) [Conan]

Rogues in the House (Weird Tales, January 1934) [Conan]

Shadows in Zamboula (Weird Tales, November 1935) [Conan]

Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die (Weird Tales, August 1938)

Famous Fantastic Mysteries (December, 1952) Cover by Lawrence. [reprint magazine]

Skull-Face by Robert E. Howard [Weird Tales, October 1929]

Killdozer! by Theodore Sturgeon [Astounding Science Fiction, November 1944]

“The Homecoming” by Ray Bradbury [Mademoiselle, October 1946]

“The Coat” by A.E.D. Smith [from POWERS OF DARKNESS edited by Philip Allan, 1934]

(London: Panther, 1976) Cover by Chris Achilleos. • (New York: Berkley, 1978) • (Japan)

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FANCIES AND GOODNIGHTS: Tales Unlike Other Tales by John Collier. (New York: Doubleday, 1951) Cover by Margot Tomes.

"Bottle Party" from PRESENTING MOONSHINE (1939)

"De Mortuis" (The New Yorker 1942)

"Evening Primrose" from PRESENTING MOONSHINE (1941)

"Witch's Money" (The New Yorker 1939)

"Are You Too Late or Was I Too Early?" (The New Yorker 1951)

"Fallen Star"

"The Touch of Nutmeg Makes It" (The New Yorker 1941)

"Three Bears Cottage"

"Pictures in the Fire"

"Wet Saturday" (The New Yorker 1938)

"Squirrels Have Bright Eyes" from PRESENTING MOONSHINE (1941)

"Halfway to Hell" from THE DEVIL AND ALL (1934)

"The Lady on the Grey" (The New Yorker 1951)

"Incident on a Lake" (The New Yorker 1941)

"Over Insurance" [… cont’d]

(New York: Bantam, 1953) Cover by Charles Binger. • (New York: Bantam, 1957) Cover uncredited.

"Old Acquaintance" from PRESENTING MOONSHINE (1941)

"The Frog Prince" from PRESENTING MOONSHINE (1941)

"Season of Mists"

"Great Possibilities"

"Without Benefit of Galsworthy" (The New Yorker 1939)

"The Devil, George, and Rosie" from THE DEVIL AND ALL (1934)

"Ah the University" (The New Yorker 1939)

"Back for Christmas" (The New Yorker 1939)

"Another American Tragedy" (The New Yorker 1940)

"Collaboration" from PRESENTING MOONSHINE (1941)

"Midnight Blue" (The New Yorker 1938)

"Gavin O'Leary" [chapbook, 1945]

"If Youth Knew, If Age Could" from PRESENTING MOONSHINE (1941)

"Thus I Refute Beelzy" (Atlantic Monthly 1940)

"Special Delivery" from PRESENTING MOONSHINE (1941)

"Rope Enough" (The New Yorker 1939)

"Little Memento" (The New Yorker 1938)

"Green Thoughts" (Harper's Magazine 1931)

"Romance Lingers Adventure Lives"

"Bird of Prey" from PRESENTING MOONSHINE (1941) [… cont’d]

(New York: Time, 1965) Cover by Seymour Chywast.

"Variation on a Theme" [chapbook 1935]

"Night! Youth! Paris! and the Moon!" (The New Yorker 1938)

"The Steel Cat" from LILIPUT (1941)

"Sleeping Beauty" (Harper’s Bazaar (UK edition) 1938)

"Interpretation of a Dream" (The New Yorker 1951)

"Mary" (Harper’s Bazaar 1939)

"Hell Hath No Fury" from THE DEVIL AND ALL (1934)

"In the Cards"

"The Invisible Dove Dancer of Strathpheen Island" from PRESENTING MOONSHINE (1941)

"The Right Side" from THE DEVIL AND ALL (1934)

"Spring Fever"

"Youth from Vienna"

"Possession of Angela Bradshaw" from THE DEVIL AND ALL (1934)

"Cancel All I Said"

"The Chaser" (The New Yorker 1940)

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CHILDHOOD’S END by Arthur C. Clarke (New York: Ballantine, 1953) Cover by Richard Powers.

(New York: Ballantine, 1953) Cover by Richard Powers. • (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1954) Cover by Deborah Jones

(London: Pan 1956) Cover by Gerard Quinn. 8 • (New York: Ballantine, 1960) Cover by Richard Powers • (London: Great Pan, 1961) Cover by S.R. Boldero.

(New York: Ballantine, 1969) No artist credit. • (London: Pan, 1970) Cover by Cris Foss.

(New York: Ballantine, 1972) Cover by Dean Ellis. • (…1976) Cover by Stanislaw Fernandes.

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THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS by Poul Anderson. (New York: Doubleday, 1961) Cover art by Edward Gorey.

Holger Carlsen, an American-trained Danish engineer, is shot while resisting the Nazis in WWII, and suddenly finds himself transported to a parallel universe in which Northern European legend is real.

Expanded from the novella serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September and October, 1953.

(New York: Avon, 1962) Cover by Richard Powers. // New York: Avon, 1970) Cover by Jeff Jones.

(London: Sphere, 1974) Cover by Patrick Woodruffe. [digitally enhanced for detail]

(New York: Berkley, 1978) Cover by Wayne Barlowe // (New York: Berkley, 1984) Cover by Carl Lundgren

(London: Gollancz, 2013) Cover by Paul Gregory.

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NEEDLE [aka FROM OUTER SPACE] by Hal Clement. (New York: Doubleday, 1950) Cover by Hector Garrido.

The book broke new ground in the science fiction field by postulating an alien lifeform, not hostile, which could live within the human body. A similar plotline was used in the film The Hidden.

Astounding Science Fiction, May 1949. Edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Cover art by Paul Orban.

NEEDLE by Hal Clement. Illustrated by Paul Orban [Part 1 of 2; Robert Kinnaird]

“Prophecy” by Poul Anderson. Illustrated by Orban

“Mother Earth” by Isaac Asimov. Illustrated by Orban

“Lost Ulysses” by William L. Bade. Illustrated by Brush [Advent]

“The Conroy Diary” by René Lafayette [aka L. Ron Hubbard]. Illustrated by Brush.

FROM OUTER SPACE (New York: Avon, 1957) Cover by Richard Powers. // (London: Corgi, 1963) // (New York: Avon 1967) Cover by Hector Garrido.

(New York: Avon, 1967) Cover by Frank Kelly Freas // (New York: Avon Rediscovery, 1976) Cover by Michael Pressley.

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LECHEROUS LIMERICKS by Isaac Asimov. (New York: Walker, 1975)

This was the first of several compilations of dirty limericks by Asimov (1920–1992).

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ATOMSK by Carmichael Smith [aka Paul Linebarger; aka Cordwainer Smith] (New York: Newell, Sloan, Pearce,1949)

Drawing on Paul Linebarger's own expertise in the field of psychological warfare, the book is a study of the personality of a U.S. operative (Major Michael Dugan) who has little in common with James Bond except his extreme resourcefulness under cover and in danger.

It is considered b some to be the first Cold War secret agent novel.

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PILGRIMAGE: THE BOOK OF THE PEOPLE by Zenna Henderson (Garden City, Doubleday, 1961) Cover art by Mel Hunter. // (London: Gollancz, 1962)

PILGRIMAGE is a ‘fix-up novel’ of Henderson’s first six stories about The People, a society whose members control special psychic abilities. The stories premiered separately in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction edited by Anthony Boucher, and were later “refurbished” into the longer form.

“Ararat” — October, 1952

“Gilead” — August, 1954

“Pottage” — September, 1955

“Wilderness” — January 1957

“Captivity” — June, 1958

“Jordan” — March, 1959

“Wilderness”, January 1957. Cover by Paul Blaisdell. // “Captivity”, June 1958. Cover by Mel Hunter.

(New York: Avon, 1965) Cover by Neil Boyle. // (London: Panther, 1965) Cover by Michael Leonard. // (New York: Avon, 1965) Cover by Hector Garrido.

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THE TITAN: A Tale of the Red Planet by P. Schuyler Miller. (Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1952). Cover by Hannes Bok.

Published in an addition of 2069 copies. The stories originally appeared in the magazines Marvel Tales, Astounding, Weird Tales, Amazing Stories, and Wonder Stories.

Contents

"The Titan"

"As Never Was"

"Old Man Mulligan"

"Spawn"

"In the Good Old Summertime"

"Gleeps"

"The Arrhenius Horror"

"Forgotten"

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UNDER THE TRIPLE SUNS by Stanton A. Coblentz (Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1955) Cover by Hannes Bok.

Published in an edition of 1,528 copies.

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THE CASTLE OF IRON by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt. (New York: Gnome Press, 1950). [Harold Shea] Dust jacket illustration by Hannes Bok.

Originally published as a 35,000 word novella in Unknown, this story is set in a parallel universe where magic works. It is the third story (and second volume) in the Harold Shea series.

Unknown, April 1941. Edited by John W. Campbell.

THE CASTLE OF IRON by Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt. Illustrated by Edd Cartier

“They” by Robert A. Heinlein. Illustrated by Charles Schneeman

“Over the River” by P. Schuyler Miller. Illustrated by Edd Cartier

“The Haunt” by Theodore Sturgeon. Illustrated by R. Isip

“A Length of Rope” by Chester S. Geier. Illustrated by Edd Cartier

“The Forbidden Trail” by Jane Rice. Illustrated by Edd Cartier

THE CASTLE OF IRON (New York: Pyramid, 1962) Cover by Ed Emshwiller // THE COMPLETE ENCHANTER (Garden City: Nelson Doubleday, 1975) Cover by D.K. Stone.

THE COMPLEAT ENCHANTER (New York: del Rey, 1976) Cover by the Hildebrandt Brothers.// THE CASTLE OF IRON (London: Sphere, 1979) Cover by Peter Jones.

THE COMPLETE COMPLEAT ENCHANTER (New York: Baen, 1989) Cover by Thomas Kidd // THE COMPLEAT ENCHANTER (London: Gollancz, 2000 ) Cover by Edd Cartier.

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THE CRYSTAL HORDE by John Taine [aka Eric Temple Bell] (Reading, PA: Fantasy Press, 1952) Cover by Hannes Bok.

Published in an edition of 2,328 copies, the novel is a science horror story that involves silicon crystalline lifeforms threatening to overwhelm carbon life on Earth. It was substantially rewritten from a version that originally appeared in the magazine Amazing Stories Quarterly in 1930 under the title White Lily.

Amazing Stories Quarterly, Winter 1930. Cover by H. Wesso.

WHITE LILY by John Taine. Illustrated by H. Wesso

“The Astounding Enemy” by Louise Rice & Tonjoroff-Roberts. Illustrated by Leo Morey

“Tani of Ekkis” by Aladra Septama. Illustrated by H. Wesso [Severus Masonby]

“Dirigibles of Death” by A. Hyatt Verrill. Illustrated by Leo Morey

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