The Horror in the Museum (76 page)
“Lovecraft’s fiction is one of the cornerstones of modern horror … a unique and visionary world of wonder, terror, and delirium,” said Clive Barker. “[Lovecraft is] the American writer of the twentieth century most frequently compared with Poe, both in the quality of his art [and in] its thematic preoccupations,” observed Joyce Carol Oates. “[He has] had an incalculable influence on succeeding generations of writers of horror fiction.” And Stephen King concluded: “H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.
The Horror in the Museum
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the authors’ imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 1970, 1989 by Arkham House Publishers, Inc. “A Note on the Texts” copyright © 1970 by S. T. Joshi “Lovecraft’s ‘Revisions’” copyright © 1970 by August Derleth Introduction copyright © 2007 by Stephen Jones
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“Two Black Bottles” by Wilfred Blanch Talman, copyright © 1927 by the Popular Fiction Publishing Company; copyright © 1944 by August Derleth. By permission of Wilfred Blanch Talman. Frontispiece courtesy of Brown University Library
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