The House of the Worm explained

The House of the Worm
Author:Gary Myers
Illustrator:Allan Servoss
Cover Artist:Allan Servoss
Country:United States
Language:English
Genre:Horror, fantasy
Publisher:Arkham House
Release Date:1975
Media Type:Print (hardback)
Pages:ix, 77
Isbn:0-87054-071-8
Dewey:813/.5/4
Congress:PZ4.M99724 Ho PS3563.Y37
Oclc:1582475

The House of the Worm is a collection of stories by American writer Gary Myers. It was published in 1975 by Arkham House in an edition of 4,144 copies and was the author's first book. The book is a close stylistic pastiche of H. P. Lovecraft and Lord Dunsany, and is effectively an expansion of Lovecraft's Dream Cycle.[1] While presented by the publisher as if 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 Ballantine Adult Fantasy series. All ten stories were included in Myers's 2013 collection, The Country of the Worm.

Contents

References

. Sheldon Jaffery . The Arkham House Companion . Mercer Island, WA . Starmont House, Inc. . 109–110 . 1989 . 1-55742-005-X.

. Jack L. Chalker . Mark Owings . The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923–1998 . Westminster, MD and Baltimore . Mirage Press, Ltd. . 51 . 1998.

. S.T. Joshi . Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography . Sauk City, WI . Arkham House . 133 . 1999 . 0-87054-176-5.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Page, G.W. . Nameless places . Arkham House . 1975 . 978-0-87054-073-8 . registration . 4 May 2019 . 278 . ... His The House of the Worm, a book-length pastiche of Lovecraft and Dunsany, published recently by Arkham House ....