Wormwoodiana takes a look at Gary Myers’s Dreamlands tales in their original 1975 form. Said elsewhere to be typo-ridden in its 1975 edition, but the problem is not mentioned here.
It’s noted that the more recent book was a “corrected edition” as well as expanded, and Wormwoodiana usefully draws my attention to a further “2022” edition which had escaped me.
Also new in affordable ebook, S.T. Joshi’s compilation Ooze and Others (2023), being the best pulp shockers of Anthony M. Rud. Rud was an influence on Lovecraft, since the otherwise lacklustre March 1923 issue of the fledgling Weird Tales featured his tales of the Alabama swamplands…
“a striking novelette, “Ooze” by Anthony M. Rud, which Lovecraft enjoyed” (Joshi, I Am Providence)
Available in Kindle ebook…
The 2019 edition of THE COUNTRY OF THE WORM is 362 pages and contains more stories than the one of 2022.
That’s interesting to know. Many thanks. It then sounds like a reader might want both the 2019 paperback edition and the latest 2022 ebook for comparison, then. Though I’m not sure that one can get this 2019 edition? I don’t see it on Amazon or eBay. Nor can Google searches bring it to the surface. Did you perhaps mean the 2013 edition? That is listed as 372 pages in paper at Goodreads, and its blurb stated “30 stories”. Yet the 2022 ebook edition’s blurb has the same number of stories present… “Here are thirty explorations”.
No, it is copyrighted 2019 (ISBN 9781484801970) — I used to have an earlier edition but upgraded to the 2019 edition when I learned of the additions. The latest edition (2022) omits the last section, “The City of the Dead”, which is probably a novella rather than a series of interconnected stories (alas, I have not read it yet).
Myers apparently keeps revising and updating this collection (there are stories in it that were published elsewhere after 2013 and then added to this book). It is good to know that I do not need the 2022 version, but there may still be new versions down the road.