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The Lurker at the Threshold (Mass Market Paperback)

by H.P. Lovecraft (Author), August Derleth (Author)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 186 pages
  • Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc; New edition edition (18 Jul 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 088184408X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0881844085
  • Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.2 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,317,899 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read (even if it's not really Lovecraft), 5 Jul 1997
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BEWARE! Carroll & Graf are lying to you! This book is really by long-time friend of H.P.'s August Derleth! DO NOT BE FOOLED! I was, and I'm frankly a bit pissed, but nevertheless...It's true: Derleth merely uses a few snippets of Lovecraft's stuff to embellish it with his own. Granted, it is a fine book, but it really should say, at least, "by Derleth and Lovecraft." It's false advertising - no more, no less. The text is approximately 2% Lovecraft's!!! But enough bitching, it's a great book, quite chilling...
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars In Defence of Derleth, 30 Oct 2006
By Comte d'Erlette (Glasgow, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lurker at the Threshold (Hardcover)
Most of the reviews that have been posted so far seem to be from Lovecraft purists who object to Derleth's creation of a novella from a 1200-word sketch by HPL. We should maybe bear in mind the debt that Lovecraftians owe to Derleth. He founded Arkham House specifically to keep HPL's memory alive and to bring his work to a larger audience than the readers of Weird Tales Magazine.
So, let's try to approach Lurker from another angle. Of course Derleth is different. But he's good too. The character that holds much of the narrative together is Quamis. Derleth does a sound job of tracing his malignant influence. Derleth also makes good use of Lovecraft's literary apparatus - his cosmology, his imaginary New England landscape, the sights, sounds and even the smells of the Lovecraft landscape (gambrel roofs ... dereliction and decay ... you know all that stuff). If you don't like Derleth's treatment, you don't have to read the book. As for me, I am at present re-reading it for about the tenth time. I like it!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Some reviewers are missing the point, 23 Sep 2007
By Brian Elliston (Hong Kong) - See all my reviews
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Read this book alone in the house with all the lights off but a small reading lamp and the hairs on the back of your neck will be standing up. It's deliciously creepy, atmospheric in the traditional Lovecraft style, and you'll probably end up reading it again and again. I can't see anyone who hasn't been spellbound by Lovecraft's other stories not enjoying this.

As people like to point out about this book, and they've been doing this since it was published, long before Amazon (or even computers) ever appeared, it's 'by' August Derleth, not H.P.Lovecraft. Derleth was a 'pupil' of Lovecraft and used notes and ideas to put this together after Lovecraft's death. However that's not really an issue. Lovecraft actively encouraged other writers to take his works and the mythos he created and use it in their own writings : develop the settings and the characters, and to build on what he had started. Most modern horror writers have published some Cthulhu mythos stories, Brian Lumley produced some wonderful ones and it's great to be reading a Stephen King and suddenly find some 'Hastur' reference and to thoroughly understand the whole history behind it. Such work should be celebrated. Can anyone these days imagine J.K.Rowling encouraging other people to publish stories from the Harry Potter 'mythos'? She'd have a lawsuit on them before they could blink!

Personally I think the world of literature is a better place because people like Lovecraft viewed their work as a creative phenomenon to be developed and grown by future generations rather than as a product to be jealously guarded and I sometimes feel that people who reject such developments as not 'Pure Lovecraft' are missing the point.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Incredible
This is a brilliant book by one of the greatest authors in history (H.P. Lovecraft). Even if you have several people around you at a party even reading the book will make you feel... Read more
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2.0 out of 5 stars The usual Derlethian mess
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3.0 out of 5 stars A Fair Book -- But Who's the Author?
This is a fairly good novel and one of the better Mythos works August Derleth ever wrote. Yes, I said August Derleth. H. P. Read more
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