The House of the Worm

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The House of the Worm
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Dust-jacket illustration by Allan Servoss for The House of the Worm
Author Gary Myers
IllustratorAllan Servoss
Cover artistAllan Servoss
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Horror, fantasy
Publisher Arkham House
Publication date
1975
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pagesix, 77
ISBN 0-87054-071-8
OCLC 1582475
813/.5/4
LC Class PZ4.M99724 Ho PS3563.Y37

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 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.

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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 ...