{"id":35358,"date":"2020-02-13T10:55:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T07:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=35358"},"modified":"2026-02-08T17:03:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:03:37","slug":"the-house-of-the-worm-in-ebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/02\/13\/the-house-of-the-worm-in-ebook\/","title":{"rendered":"The House of the Worm in ebook"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you been looking for the well-regarded book of Dreamlands tales The House of the Worm<\/em> (1975)? S.T. Joshi has referred to it as (I paraphrase from memory) ‘an exercise in how closely one can write like Lovecraft’. Which, to me, is a kind of recommendation. Thus I was pleased to discover that the book is now a Kindle ebook titled The Country of the Worm: Excursions Beyond the Wall of Sleep<\/a><\/em> (2013). In early 2020 this ebook edition is currently on a heavy discount, at a somewhat affordable \u00a37.60.<\/p>\n

The Country of the Worm is Myers\u2019s long-awaited follow-up to The House of the Worm. It contains that first book in a corrected edition<\/strong>, together with all the stories in the same fantastic vein that Myers has written in the forty-three years since.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Corrected” because the Arkham edition of 1975, though said to be nicely printed and collectable, was also reportedly<\/a> riddled with typos.<\/p>\n

Note also that recent issues of Crypt of Cthulhu<\/em> (#111 and #122) appear to have had short Dreamlands fiction by Myers, which I’m guessing from their titles may be new or newly-published post-2013 tales? These issues are also available in ebook format<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2012 the Miskatonic Debating Club & Literary Society blog usefully reviewed the original Arkham The House of the Worm<\/a><\/em>, adding some detail on how… “Chaosium has milked it dry for inspiration for their own compilations”, re: commercial RPG game books for the Dreamlands setting.<\/p>\n

In Norwegian, there’s also the blog review “Gennem den dybe slummers porte”<\/a>, which shows some of the interior illustrations from the 1975 edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you been looking for the well-regarded book of Dreamlands tales The House of the Worm (1975)? S.T. Joshi has …<\/p>\n

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