The House of the Worm
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| The House of the Worm | |
 Dust-jacket illustration by Allan Servoss for The House of the Worm |
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| Author | Gary Myers |
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| Illustrator | Allan Servoss |
| Cover artist | Allan Servoss |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Horror, Fantasy short stories |
| Publisher | Arkham House |
| Publication date | 1975 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | ix, 77 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-87054-071-8 |
The House of the Worm is a collection of stories by author Gary Myers. It was released in 1975 by Arkham House in an edition of 4,144 copies and was the author's first book. The book is a stylistic pastiche of H. P. Lovecraft and Lord Dunsany, and may be seen as an expansion of Lovecraft's Dream Cycle. While presented as a novel of the Cthulhu Mythos, it is, in fact, a collection of linked stories.
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 celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series. The third story, "Xiurhn," was selected by Carter for The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 2 (1976). The collection itself was listed by Carter as one of the year's best fantasy books.
[edit] Contents
The House of the Worm contains the following:
- "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"
[edit] References
- Carter, Lin (1971). New Worlds for Old. New York, NY: Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-02365-X.
- Carter, Lin (1976). The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 2. New York, NY: DAW Books, Inc..
- Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc., 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., 51.
- Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 133. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
- Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., 119. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.
