Collected Fiction: A Variorum Edition, Volume 4?

[lynnfredricks]

Does anyone know if this is the previously discussed variorum of the revisions?

 

[w h pugmire esq]

S. T. shew'd me ye galleys last week, and it is one HUGE volume of all ye revisions & collaborations, in format with the three previous Variorum editions that have already been publish'd.

 

[lynnfredricks]

S. T. shew'd me ye galleys last week, and it is one HUGE volume of all ye revisions & collaborations, in format with the three previous Variorum editions that have already been publish'd.

Wow, that must be big! Thanks!

 

[pablo]

Any time frame for release?

 

[Ningauble]

Any time frame for release?

Coming in 2016. The Hippocampus Press release schedule is up to May right now, so probably not before June.

 

[Ningauble]

Derrick posted an image of the ARC of the fourth volume on Facebook a few days ago.

 

[pablo]

Any updates on this yet?

 

[Ningauble]

Any updates on this yet?

Last week I reminded S. T. of an error in "The Mound" that he would need to take a look at, and he mentioned that Dave Schultz is working on the text right now.

 

[lynnfredricks]

Any updates? My three volumes are acting as if they have a phantom limb ;-)

 

[Ningauble]

Any updates? My three volumes are acting as if they have a phantom limb ;-)

According to Joshi's latest blog entry:

Currently my time is largely taken up with (a) preparing an index of proper names for the Hippocampus variorum edition of Lovecraft (which will be published in Volume 4 of the edition, containing HPL’s revisions and collaborations), and (b) editing and annotating HPL’s Family Letters (which will include his letters to his mother, his two aunts [Lillian D. Clark and Annie E. P. Gamwell], a few postcards to his wife Sonia, and sundry other letters).

 

[Ningauble]

And from S. T.'s latest blog entry:

Otherwise, I continue to work on (a) Lovecraft’s Family Letters (containing letters to his mother, aunts, and others), and (b) a complete index of proper names to Lovecraft’s fiction, keyed to the new variorum edition (including Volume 4, containing his revisions and collaborations, which should be out later this year or early next). This index is, amidst the inevitable tedium, proving to be rather amusing in some senses. One could fashion a really, really hard Lovecraft quiz along these lines:

• Of the stories At the Mountains of Madness, “The Shadow out of Time”, and “The Haunter of the Dark,” which one does not mention Antarctica? (Answer: At the Mountains of Madness! Strange, but true: in that novel only the adjective “antarctic” and other such formulations are mentioned, but never the specific term “Antarctica.”)
• In what work is “Father Iwanicki” (a Polish Catholic priest in Arkham) first mentioned? (Answer: The discarded draft of “The Shadow over Innsmouth” [1931]. Otherwise, he is mentioned in “The Dreams in the Witch House” [1932].)
• Where does Lovecraft mention Poe’s story “A Descent into the Maelström”? (Answer: In a footnote to “The Transition of Juan Romero.”)

 

[Extollager]

And from S. T.'s latest blog entry:

I've been reading HPL for almost 50 years and would have missed every one of those, I suppose.

 

[Ningauble]

I've been reading HPL for almost 50 years and would have missed every one of those, I suppose.

I might have caught the third one, but that's a big "might". I hope he puts together a quiz like that; it'd be fun!

 

[Ningauble]

Here is what Hippocampus Press answered to a question on FB regarding the fourth volume of the Variorum:

It's coming in January as a paperback only. The CM Eddy estate refused our generous offer to license their four stories, and sued us into the bargain... so the planned hardcover state is cancelled. If this disappoints, sorry. We are disappointed too.

 

[pablo]

Out this spring (or May), so should be soon. But sad news it's paperback only and not complete

Collected Fiction: A Variorum Edition: Revisions and Collaborations : Hippocampus Press, specializes in classic horror and science fiction

 

[Ningauble]

Out this spring (or May), so should be soon. But sad news it's paperback only and not complete

Collected Fiction: A Variorum Edition: Revisions and Collaborations : Hippocampus Press, specializes in classic horror and science fiction

Out in hardcover now, and complete (i.e., including the Eddy revisions).