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Product Identifiers
PublisherSubterranean Press
ISBN-101596061650
ISBN-139781596061651
eBay Product ID (ePID)63856662
Product Key Features
Book TitleHaggopian and Other Stories
Number of Pages424 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Horror
IllustratorEggleton, Bob, Yes
GenreFiction
AuthorBrian Lumley
Book SeriesBest Mythos Tales Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight29 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
Series Volume NumberVol. 2
Dewey Decimal823.914
SynopsisPrior to the first American publication of Brian Lumley's ground-breaking, dead-waking, best-selling Necroscope? in 1988 -- the first novel in a long-lived, much-loved series -- this British author had for twenty years been earning himself something of a reputation writing short stories, novellas, and a series of novels set against H. P. Lovecraft's cosmic Cthulhu Mythos backdrop. A soldier in 1967, serving in Berlin with the Royal Military Police, Lumley jump-started his literary career by writing to August Derleth, the then dean of macabre publishers at his home in Sauk City, Wisconsin, telling of his fascination with the Mythos, and purchasing books by the "Old Gentleman of Providence, RI." In addition, he sent a page or two of written work allegedly culled from the various forbidden or "black books" of the Mythos. Suitably impressed, the master of Arkham House invited Lumley to write something solid in the Mythos as a possible contribution to a new volume he was currently contempla, Prior to the first American publication of Brian Lumley's ground-breaking, dead-waking, best-selling Necroscope in 1988 -- the first novel in a long-lived, much-loved series -- this British author had for twenty years been earning himself something of a reputation writing short stories, novellas, and a series of novels set against H. P. Lovecraft's cosmic Cthulhu Mythos backdrop. A soldier in 1967, serving in Berlin with the Royal Military Police, Lumley jump-started his literary career by writing to August Derleth, the then dean of macabre publishers at his home in Sauk City, Wisconsin, telling of his fascination with the Mythos, and purchasing books by the Old Gentleman of Providence, RI. In addition, he sent a page or two of written work allegedly culled from the various forbidden or black books of the Mythos. Suitably impressed, the master of Arkham House invited Lumley to write something solid in the Mythos as a possible contribution to a new volume he was currently contempla
