About a week or so ago, I ordered two volumes of the Centipede Press Library of Weird Fiction series. Normally I can't really justify paying for Centipede Press books because they are typically very expensive (but beautiful). However, these volumes are at a much more affordable price. I found them on Amazon for about $40 each. I just took a look and Centipede Press is also selling them right now for $50.
The Blackwood volume contains some of his best stories and is edited with an introduction by S.T. Joshi. Limited to 500 copies and coming in at 880 pages, this book is a massive, beautiful tome. It is cloth-bound, has Blackwood's signature embossed on the front cover and comes with a beautiful dust jacket. I cannot comment on the editing or content since I haven't read it yet but I am very happy to own this great looking book.
The table of contents is as follows:
Introduction
A Haunted Island
Smith: An Episode in a Lodging House
The Listener
The Willows
The Insanity of Jones
The Woman's Ghost Story
A Psychical Invasion
Ancient Sorceries
The Wendigo
The Sea Fit
The Glamour of the Snow
The Golden Fly
The Man Whom the Trees Loved
Sand
The Wings of Horus
The Regeneration of Lord Ernie
The Damned
A Descent Into Egypt
May Day Eve
Old Clothes
The Old Man of Visions
The Occupant of the Room
Bibliography
The Hodgson volume is just as beautiful as the Blackwood and has all of the same features (embossed signature, cloth binding, great dust jacket). It is also edited with an introduction by S.T. Joshi. It is slightly shorter in length coming in at 733 pages. However, it is still an enormous volume. It does not contain what is typically considered Hodgson's magnum opus - The Night Land. It does contain many of his other great stories though.
Here is the table of contents:
The House on the Borderland
The Ghost Pirates
The Goddess of Death
A Tropical Horror
From the Tideless Sea
The Mystery of the Derelict
The Voice in the Night
Out of the Storm
The Gateway of the Monster
The House Among the Laurels
The Whistling Room
The Horse of the Invisible
The Searcher of the End House
The Thing Invisible
The Derelict
The Thing in the Weeds
The Finding of the Graiken
The Haunted Pampero
Demons of the Sea
The Haunted Jarvee
The Hog
The Riven Night
The Room of Fear
Bibliography
The Blackwood volume contains some of his best stories and is edited with an introduction by S.T. Joshi. Limited to 500 copies and coming in at 880 pages, this book is a massive, beautiful tome. It is cloth-bound, has Blackwood's signature embossed on the front cover and comes with a beautiful dust jacket. I cannot comment on the editing or content since I haven't read it yet but I am very happy to own this great looking book.
The table of contents is as follows:
Introduction
A Haunted Island
Smith: An Episode in a Lodging House
The Listener
The Willows
The Insanity of Jones
The Woman's Ghost Story
A Psychical Invasion
Ancient Sorceries
The Wendigo
The Sea Fit
The Glamour of the Snow
The Golden Fly
The Man Whom the Trees Loved
Sand
The Wings of Horus
The Regeneration of Lord Ernie
The Damned
A Descent Into Egypt
May Day Eve
Old Clothes
The Old Man of Visions
The Occupant of the Room
Bibliography
Here is the table of contents:
The House on the Borderland
The Ghost Pirates
The Goddess of Death
A Tropical Horror
From the Tideless Sea
The Mystery of the Derelict
The Voice in the Night
Out of the Storm
The Gateway of the Monster
The House Among the Laurels
The Whistling Room
The Horse of the Invisible
The Searcher of the End House
The Thing Invisible
The Derelict
The Thing in the Weeds
The Finding of the Graiken
The Haunted Pampero
Demons of the Sea
The Haunted Jarvee
The Hog
The Riven Night
The Room of Fear
Bibliography
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