The House of the Worm

The House of the Worm is a collection of stories by American writer Gary Myers. It was published in 1975 by Arkham House in an edition of 4,144 copies and was the author's first book. The book is a close stylistic pastiche of H. P. Lovecraft and Lord Dunsany, and is effectively an expansion of Lovecraft's Dream Cycle.[1] While presented by the publisher as if a novel of the Cthulhu Mythos, it is, in fact, a collection of linked stories.

The House of the Worm
Dust-jacket illustration by Allan Servoss for The House of the Worm
AuthorGary Myers
IllustratorAllan Servoss
Cover artistAllan Servoss
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreHorror, fantasy
PublisherArkham House
Publication date
1975
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pagesix, 77
ISBN0-87054-071-8
OCLC1582475
813/.5/4
LC ClassPZ4.M99724 Ho PS3563.Y37

The first of these stories, "The House of the Worm", was included (as "The Feast in the House of the Worm") in Lin Carter's anthology New Worlds for Old (1971), the thirty-fifth volume in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series. All ten stories were included in Myers's 2013 collection, The Country of the Worm.

Contents
  • "Introduction"
  • I "The House of the Worm"
  • II "Yohk the Necromancer"
  • III "Xiurhn"
  • IV "Passing of a Dreamer"
  • V "The Return of Zhosph"
  • VI "The Three Enchantments"
  • VII "Hazuth-Kleg"
  • VIII "The Loot of Golthoth"
  • IX "The Four Sealed Jars"
  • X "The Maker of Gods"
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gollark: According to current physical theories; it's not like future ones will *have* to obey all the same conservation laws necessarily.
gollark: It's one of those unfalsifiable things, but you can't say that it *definitely isn't* true because of that.
gollark: Perhaps in the real reality™ atoms don't exist and everything is made of very small bees.
gollark: You can be *practically* sure, but not *absolutely* sure inasmuch as, again, you could be in a simulation or being fed fake sensations somehow.

References
  1. Page, G.W. (1975). Nameless places. Arkham House. p. 278. ISBN 978-0-87054-073-8. Retrieved 4 May 2019. ... His The House of the Worm, a book-length pastiche of Lovecraft and Dunsany, published recently by Arkham House ...
  • Carter, Lin (1971). New Worlds for Old. New York, NY: Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-02365-X.
  • Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. pp. 109–110. ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
  • Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923–1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd. p. 51.
  • Joshi, S.T. (1999). Sixty Years of Arkham House: A History and Bibliography. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. p. 133. ISBN 0-87054-176-5.
  • Nielsen, Leon (2004). Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 119. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4.
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