Two Panther Horror Lovecrafts
Lovecraft, H. P and August Derleth (Ed.). The Tomb and Other Tales. Panther Books, 1970. Cover photo by Tony Marshall. $20.
Lovecraft, H. P and August Derleth (Ed.). At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror. Panther Books, 1970. Cover art by John Dore and John Claridge. $20.
Two photo-horrific mass-market paperbacks spanning Lovecraft's oeuvre, from the microcosm of the Arkham-esque town depicted in his early story, 'The Tomb', where young Jervas Dudley becomes obsessed with a neighboring mausoleum, to the deep time uncovered during the expedition to Antarctica related in At the Mountains of Madness. After first skewering the shoggoth creator as 'sick' and 'a bad writer', Colin Wilson later acknowledged that given sufficient income, Lovecraft's work 'would have been, in some respect, closer to that of Anatole France or . . . Jorge Luis Borges.'
Both books have tight, square spines with some cosmetic creasing. Both have clean, unmarked interiors. Both have small former seller stickers and areas of creasing to their front covers, as well as areas of moderate to heavy edge-wear. Mass-Market Paperbacks.
