![]() ![]() an idealized version of what Lovecraft's life and death should have been". Gale of Galaxy Science Fiction said that except for "The Shadow Out of Space" "Derleth generates unintended humor in most of his reconstructions", and that "Alhazred" "might aptly have been titled 'Eulogy'. knew very well what he was doing when he left the outlines uncompleted,"with the exception of "The Lamp of Alhazred," in which, according to him, "with a flash of inspiration" Derleth introduced Lovecraft as a character and produced "a warmly moving tribute." Floyd C. Reception Īnthony Boucher noted wryly that "I can't help feeling that H.P.L. "The Gable Window" had appeared in the May 1957 issue of the science fiction/fantasy pulp Saturn under the title of "The Murky Glass". "The Survivor" had been published originally in the July 1954 issue of Weird Tales. Derleth was in fact Lovecraft's literary executor after the latter's death in 1937.Įxcept as noted, the stories were original to this volume. ![]() Lovecraft, and billed as "posthumous collaborations" with him. The stories were based on and inspired by unused ideas of H. ![]() ![]() It was reissued in paperback by Ballantine Books in 19. It was released in an edition of 2,096 copies. The Survivor and Others is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by American writer August Derleth. ![]()
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