Summary
The House of the Worm is a collection of stories by American writer Gary Myers. It was published in 1975 by Arkham House in an edition of 4,144 copies and was the author's first book. The book is a close stylistic pastiche of H. P. Lovecraft and Lord Dunsany, and is effectively an expansion of Lovecraft's Dream Cycle.[1] While presented by the publisher as if a novel of the Cthulhu Mythos, it is, in fact, a collection of linked stories.
 Dust-jacket illustration by Allan Servoss for The House of the Worm | |
| Author | Gary Myers |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Allan Servoss |
| Cover artist | Allan Servoss |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Horror, fantasy |
| Publisher | Arkham House |
Publication date | 1975 |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | ix, 77 |
| ISBN | 0-87054-071-8 |
| OCLC | 1582475 |
| 813/.5/4 | |
| LC Class | PZ4.M99724 Ho PS3563.Y37 |
The first of these stories, "The House of the Worm", was included (as "The Feast in the House of the Worm") in Lin Carter's anthology New Worlds for Old (1971), the thirty-fifth volume in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series. All ten stories were included in Myers's 2013 collection, The Country of the Worm.
Contents edit
- "Introduction"
- I "The House of the Worm"
- II "Yohk the Necromancer"
- III "Xiurhn"
- IV "Passing of a Dreamer"
- V "The Return of Zhosph"
- VI "The Three Enchantments"
- VII "Hazuth-Kleg"
- VIII "The Loot of Golthoth"
- IX "The Four Sealed Jars"
- X "The Maker of Gods"
References edit
- Carter, Lin (1971). New Worlds for Old. New York, NY: Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-02365-X.
- Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. pp. 109–110. ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
- Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923–1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 51.
- Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. p. 133. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
- Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 119. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.