"The Horror at Oakdeene & Others" by Brian Lumley. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1977. First edition. Jacket art by Stephen Fabian
An early acolyte of H. P. Lovecraft, Brian Lumley emerged as a talented and versatile writer in the domain of the uncanny. He developed his own imaginative adaptation of the Cthulhu Mythos in stories that range from the nethermost regions of subterranean dread to the star flung spaces beyond the rim of the world.
The title story, "The Horror at Oakdeene," begins within the eerie confines of Oakdeene Sanatorium, where an invocation from the pages of the Cthaat Aquadingen leads the reader into the realm of nightmare. Another story, "The Statement of Henry Worthy," opens on the bleak Yorkshire moors and culminates in a primeval cavern where a race of hideous fungoid anomalies lurk.
Also included in the volume is Lumley's short novel, "Born of the Winds," in which the reader is taken on a trek across the Great White North, lacerated by icy arctic winds and confronted by the Ithaqua legend, an entity of awesome cosmic malevolence. Other tales of the occult and the macabre in this collection are "The Viking's Stone," "Aunt Hester," "No Way Home," "The Cleaner Woman," and "Darghud's Doll."
"The Horror at Oakdeene & Others" by Brian Lumley. Sauk City: Arkham House, 1977. First edition. Jacket art by Stephen Fabian
An early acolyte of H. P. Lovecraft, Brian Lumley emerged as a talented and versatile writer in the domain of the uncanny. He developed his own imaginative adaptation of the Cthulhu Mythos in stories that range from the nethermost regions of subterranean dread to the star flung spaces beyond the rim of the world.
The title story, "The Horror at Oakdeene," begins within the eerie confines of Oakdeene Sanatorium, where an invocation from the pages of the Cthaat Aquadingen leads the reader into the realm of nightmare. Another story, "The Statement of Henry Worthy," opens on the bleak Yorkshire moors and culminates in a primeval cavern where a race of hideous fungoid anomalies lurk.
Also included in the volume is Lumley's short novel, "Born of the Winds," in which the reader is taken on a trek across the Great White North, lacerated by icy arctic winds and confronted by the Ithaqua legend, an entity of awesome cosmic malevolence. Other tales of the occult and the macabre in this collection are "The Viking's Stone," "Aunt Hester," "No Way Home," "The Cleaner Woman," and "Darghud's Doll."