Horror in the Museum

The book was in excellent condition. This was very important to me, I hate books that falling apart, or look as if they have been dragged through the mud. The book was nice and clean, and I was very happy to have it.

Having read and enjoyed most of Lovecraft's other works, I picked up this book for a diversion - curious to see how the collaborations worked out. I was unprepared for the fantastic quality of some of the stories, which in my opinion rank with his best work. My two personal favorites include "The Last Test" and "The Mound." Those two stories are worth the price alone. Not all of the stories, of course, are equally successful, and Lovecraft's level of involvement varied. One thing that remained clear, however, was that Lovecraft was ahead of his time, and no modern horror/weird fantasy writer has yet to catch up.

Because there are so many different Lovecraft collections out there, it may be useful to prospective buyers to know what's actually in this volume:[By S. T. Joshi:] A Note on the Texts; [By August Derleth:] Lovecraft's "Revisions"; [Hereupon stories effectively ghostwritten by H. P. Lovecraft:] The Green Meadow; The Crawling Chaos; The Last Test; The Electric Executioner; The Curse of Yig; The Mound; Medusa's Coil; The Man of Stone; The Horror in the Museum; Winged Death; Out of the Aeons; The Horror in the Burying-Ground; The Diary of Alonzo Typer; [Hereupon stories moderately revised by Lovecraft:] The Horror at Martin's Beach; Ashes; The Ghost-Eater; The Loved Dead; Deaf, Dumb, and Blind; Two Black Bottles; The Trap; The Tree on the Hill; The Disinterment; "Till A' the Seas"; The Night OceanContrary to the claim on the dustjacket that this "collection includes all known revisions and collaborations undertaken by Lovecraft", it actually misses several: "Under the Pyramids" (a.k.a. "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs"), ghosted for Harry Houdini; "Through the Gates of the Silver Key", a collaboration with E. Hoffmann Price; several revisions for and collaborations with R. H. Barlow; and participation in "The Challenge from Beyond", a pulp magazine's round robin. Still, this volume is just about indispensable for anyone seeking to build a textually sound collection of the complete fiction of Lovecraft.

Oke, this book gets five stars for collectors. If you are into Lovecraft, by it. That's why I give it 5. But for the overall quality of the stories is average. I believe this is because Lovecraft wrote them for hardneeded money. Revisions in this case mean: an idea by writer, Lovecraft doing the whole work. He said himself in a letter, that he would not like his name associated with this stuff. Still, stories like The Mound and The Museum are still good. The rest is oke, but not 'Lovecraftian'.

When i bought the book, it cost me a lot,but it's worth it. It's so good that if you read it on the night you will not sleep or you will dream about it.