The Dunwich Cycle: Where the Old Gods Wait

by Arthur Machen, C.J. Henderson, H.P. Lovecraft, et al.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156882047X
• ISBN13: 9781568820477
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Chaosium
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A Lovely Tribute to H. P. Lovecraft

This is an early anthology in Chaosium's "Call of Cthulhu Fiction" series, and it is quite good. I think my favourite item is "The Round Tower," by the book's editor, Robert M. Price. It is the author's contention that the third and final portion of August Derleth's novel THE LURKER AT THE THRESHOLD is a huge mistake on Derleth's part. As Price explains in his introduction to his tale, "The third section, the 'Narrative of Winfield Phillips,' does not fit the other two at all. Plot threads are severed, intriguing characters of whom we cannot believe we have heard the last are rudely dropped, Yog-Sothth replaces Ossadogowah, and indeed the entire premise of the first two stories is discarded." Thus Price writes his own ending to THE LURKER AT THE THRESHOLD, and it is a vast improvement over Derleth's original work. We also get "The Devil's Hopyard" by one of the genre's finest fantasists, Richard A. Lupoff, and a charming tale by the recently deceased (and hugely loved) Ben Indick. My own tale, "The Tree-House," is a very early Sesqua Valley story, and one that was not a success. Happily, Bob Price revised the story and hugely improved it. The Cycle books that Bob has edited for Chaosium are among the most enjoyable Cthulhu Mythos anthologies ever published. My favourite in the series is THE NYARLATHOTEP CYCLE -- it is awesome and dead cool. A sequel anthology, TALES OUT OF DUNWICH, edited by Price, was published by Hippocampus Press -- and it contains the finest sequel to Lovecraft's original story, Stanley C. Sargent's magnificent "The Black Brat of Dunwich." Hippocampus will also be publishing another new anthology edited by Robert M. Price, THE TINDALOS CYCLE.

A collection of stories from the rotting town of Dunwich

This book has a collection of stories that were inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's Dunwich Horror, including that famous story. It's an interesting book and if you are an avid reader of Lovecraft or of the Cthulhu mythos, this book is a must have.