H. P. Lovecraft Collected Fiction: Volume 1 Chiroptera Press

At last year’s Nightlands festival we asked our friends at Hippocampus Press if we could produce an illustrated version of thier Variorum editions of Lovecraft’s Collected Fiction, and here we are! Artist Karmazid has given us 12x new pieces, plus jacket and stamping art. If you already own the Hippocampus editions of Lovecraft’s Collected Fiction, you don’t need this. If you don’t, then this is a MUST BUY. We’re printing only 500x copies of each volume. A new volume will be released every four to six months until all four volumes are completed. We’ll also offer a custom slipcase to house all four volumes for those interested, when the last volume goes up for sale.

Synopsis:
In the 1980s, S. T. Joshi prepared revised editions of H. P. Lovecraft’s stories for Arkham House. Basing his work on consultation of manuscripts, early publications, and other sources, Joshi corrected thousands of errors in the existing texts of Lovecraft’s fiction, allowing readers to appreciate the stories as Lovecraft originally wrote them.
In the thirty years that have followed, Joshi has continued to do research on the textual accuracy of Lovecraft’s stories, and this comprehensive new edition is the result. For the first time, students and scholars of Lovecraft can see at a glance all the textual variants in all relevant appearances of a story—manuscript, first publication in magazines, and first book publications. The result is an illuminating record of the textual history of the tales, along with how Lovecraft significantly revised his stories after initial publication.
Along the way, Joshi has made small but significant revisions to his earlier corrected texts. He has determined, for example, that Lovecraft slightly revised some stories when a reprint of them was scheduled in Weird Tales, and he has altered some readings in light of a better understanding of Lovecraft’s customary linguistic usages.
The result is the definitive text of Lovecraft’s fiction—an edition that supersedes all those that preceded it and should endure as the standard text of Lovecraft’s stories for many years.
In this first volume, Lovecraft’s earliest stories are printed in chronological order by date of writing. Included are such early triumphs as “Dagon” and “The Outsider,” along with the many tales Lovecraft wrote under the inspiration of Lord Dunsany. The celebrated “Herbert West—Reanimator” and “The Rats in the Walls” show Lovecraft experimenting with longer narratives—a tendency that will culminate in the novelettes and novellas of his final decade of writing