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The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces

August Derleth

First published 1966
Publisher Arkham House
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Frank Utpatel
Pages x+321
Price $5.00

No statement of printing or edition. The colophon states that 3500 copies were printed. The actual number is 3460 copies per S.T. Joshi's Sixty Years of Arkham House. Author listed as "H.P. Lovecraft & Divers Hands", Derleth is not credited as editor, but is listed as editor per Joshi. Dates from Contento "Alfredo: A Tragedy" is a play "The Cancer of Superstition" is unfinished The unnumbered interior art occurs on unpaginated pages between pp 274 & 275. Derleth Thirty Years of Arkham House: 86. Joshi Sixty Years of Arkham House: 86. Jaffery The Arkham House Companion: 94. Nielsen Arkham House Books: 92.

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 The Dark Brotherhood H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth Novelette
30 Suggestions for a Reading Guide H. P. Lovecraft Essay
64 Alfredo: A Tragedy H. P. Lovecraft Poem
82 Amateur Journalism: Its Possible Needs and Betterment H. P. Lovecraft Essay
88 What Belongs in Verse Howard P. Lovecraft Essay
91 Bells H. P. Lovecraft Poem
92 Oceanus H. P. Lovecraft Poem
93 Clouds H. P. Lovecraft Poem
94 Mother Earth H. P. Lovecraft Poem
95 Cindy: Scrub Lady in a State Street Skyscraper H. P. Lovecraft Poem
96 On a Battlefield in France H. P. Lovecraft Poem
97 Three Stories (introduction) August Derleth Essay
100 The Loved Dead C. M. Eddy, Jr. Short Story
111 Deaf, Dumb and Blind C. M. Eddy, Jr. Short Story
123 The Ghost-Eater C. M. Eddy, Jr. Short Story
134 The Lovecraft "Books": Some Addenda and Corrigenda William Scott Home Essay
153 To Arkham and the Stars Fritz Leiber Short Story
164 Through Hyperspace with Brown Jenkin: Lovecraft's Contribution to Speculative Fiction Fritz Leiber Essay
179 Lovecraft and the New England Megaliths Andrew E. Rothovius Essay
198 Howard Phillips Lovecraft: A Bibliography Jack Laurence Chalker Essay
242 Walks with H. P. Lovecraft C. M. Eddy, Jr. Essay
246 The Cancer of Superstition C. M. Eddy, Jr. & H. P. Lovecraft Short Fiction
262 The Making of a Hoax August Derleth Essay
268 Lovecraft's Illustrators John E. Vetter Essay
302 Final Notes (The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces) August Derleth Essay
ix Introduction (The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces) August Derleth Essay