''At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels'' is a collection of stories by American author
H. P. Lovecraft. It was originally published in 1964 by
Arkham House
Arkham House is an American publishing house specializing in weird fiction. It was founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin, in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to publish hardcover collections of H. P. Lovecraft's best works, which had ...
in an edition of 3,552 copies. The true first edition has no head- or tailbands and features a green dustjacket (as depicted right). (Later states of the dustjacket are red and orange.)
The collection was revised in 1986 by
S. T. Joshi, replacing the introduction by
August Derleth
August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and th ...
for one by Joshi and another by
James Turner. It was published in an edition of 3,990 copies and designated a "corrected 5th printing".
Contents
''At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels'' contains the following tales:
# H. P. Lovecraft's Novels by
August Derleth
August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and th ...
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At the Mountains of Madness
''At the Mountains of Madness'' is a science fiction-horror novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931 and rejected that year by ''Weird Tales'' editor Farnsworth Wright on the grounds of its length. It was or ...
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
''The Case of Charles Dexter Ward'' is a short horror novel (51,500 words) by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in early 1927, but not published during the author's lifetime. Set in Lovecraft's hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, it w ...
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The Shunned House
"The Shunned House" is a horror fiction novelette by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written on October 16–19, 1924. It was first published in the October 1937 issue of ''Weird Tales''.
Inspiration
The Shunned House of the title is based ...
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The Dreams in the Witch-House"
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The Statement of Randolph Carter
"The Statement of Randolph Carter" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December 1919, it was first published in ''The Vagrant'', May 1920. It tells of a traumatic event in the life of Randolph Carter, a student of t ...
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The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'' is a novella by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Begun probably in the autumn of 1926, the draft was completed on January 22, 1927 and it remained unrevised and unpublished in his lifetime. It is both the l ...
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The Silver Key
"The Silver Key" is a fantasy short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in 1926, it is considered part of his Dreamlands series. It was first published in the January 1929 issue of ''Weird Tales''. It is a continuation of "The Drea ...
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Through the Gates of the Silver Key
"Through the Gates of the Silver Key" is a short story co-written by American writers H. P. Lovecraft and E. Hoffmann Price between October 1932 and April 1933. A sequel to Lovecraft's "The Silver Key", and part of a sequence of stories focusing ...
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Reprints
Arkham House
*2nd printing, 1968 - 2,987 copies.
*3rd printing, 1971 - 3,082 copies.
*4th printing, 1975 - 4,005 copies.
*corrected 5th printing, 1986 - 3,990 copies.
*corrected 6th printing, 1987 - 4,077 copies.
*corrected 7th printing, 1991 - 4,461 copies.
*corrected 8th printing, 1997 - 3,032 copies.
*corrected 9th printing, 2001 - 2,500 copies.
Others
*London: Victor Gollancz, 1966 (of the original edition).
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{{At the Mountains of Madness
1964 short story collections
Short story collections by H. P. Lovecraft
Cthulhu Mythos anthologies