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[Mikey_C]

... a triptych of volumes compiled and edited by Steve Jones and containing the complete Weird Tales poetry of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith? and all of them priced at just ?9.99 each.

HERE

(Thanks to Eldritch Dark)

[Taranaich]

Now THAT sounds awesome! The question is, do I put them on my separate REH/HPL/CAS shelves, or keep them together...

[deuce]

... a triptych of volumes compiled and edited by Steve Jones and containing the complete Weird Tales poetry of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith? and all of them priced at just ?9.99 each.

HERE

(Thanks to Eldritch Dark)

Mikey! I don't want to discourage your news-hounding activities, but Miguel Martins reported on that here:

http://www.thecimmerian.com/?p=7920

Of course, this is a newer notice with a bit more info. It was deserving of its own TC post, thus this entry by Al Harron:

http://www.thecimmerian.com/?p=9115

[Ningauble]

Of course, this is a newer notice with a bit more info. It was deserving of its own TC post, thus this entry by Al Harron:

http://www.thecimmerian.com/?p=9115

I have a list of every poem published in Weird Tales lying around somewhere, so I should be able to answer Al's question regarding what poems will be in those books -- however, that list is probably at the bottom of some box, buried under a ton of paper. But I can make an attempt.

However, from my interpretation of the description of the volumes, they will contain only poems by the Three Great Ones that were published in Weird Tales.

It?s presumable that Howard?s volume will only contain his weird poems: ?The Ride of Falume,? ?The Song of a Mad Minstrel,? ?A Word from the Outer Dark? and the like. I?d guess that poems linked to his most famous sons would also be included: ?Cimmeria,? ?The King and the Oak,? ?Song of the Race,? ?The One Black Stain,? ?The Return of Sir Richard Grenville,? and ?Solomon Kane?s Homecoming.?

A quick look at http://howardworks.com/weird.htm indicates that "The Ride of Falume", "The Song of a Mad Minstrel" and "The King and the Oak" were published in Weird Tales, so if my interpretation is correct, these poems will be included. But I hope that I'm wrong, because if I'm right, the book will have only 34 poems (based on the list at Howard Works).

Smith?s will be more difficult, as just about his entire poetic ouvre could be classed as ?weird?: I dearly hope some of my favourites like ?The Hashish Eater ? Or ? The Apocalypse of Evil,? ?Lament of the Stars,? ?The Titans in Tartarus,? ?The Sea-Gods? and ?The Song of the Worlds? will make it in.

"The Sea-Gods" was in Weird Tales in 1983. Again, I hope I'm wrong, because it seems as if Weird Tales published only about 30 poems by Smith (judging from the bibliography at The Eldritch Dark).

Lovecraft is in a similar boat: ?Fungi from Yuggoth? alone would account for a substantial portion. Still, it?s reasonable that his best known verse like ?The Cats,? ?Providence,? ?The House,? ?Festival,? and ?The City? will appear.

I have no bibliography of Lovecraft readily available, but IIRC, most (maybe all) of the "Fungi from Yuggoth" sonnets were in Weird Tales. "Festival" definitely was, but under the title "Yule Horror", with the last stanza dropped.

Again, I fervently hope that I'm wrong. Otherwise, these books will be mighty slim.

[deuce]

Thanks for pointing all of that out, Ningauble. While I hadn't done the checking of bibliographies that you did, my vague recollection was that none of the Three had a huge amount of poems published in WT. Hopefully the contents will be clarified soon.

[godzilladude]

I come up with 41 for REH, if you count all the variations of Weird Tales:

May 1927, The Song of the Bats (v)
October 1927, The Ride of Falume (v)
January 1928, The Riders of Babylon (v)
April 1928, Remembrance (v)
July 1928, The Gates of Nineveh (v)
September 1928, The Harp of Alfred (v)
December 1928, Easter Island (v)
February 1929, Crete (v)
April 1929, Moon Mockery (v)
July 1929, Forbidden Magic (v)
September 1929, The Moor Ghost (v)
January 1930, Dead Man?s Hate (v)
April 1930, A Song Out of Midian (v)
May 1930, Shadows (v)
September 1930, Black Chant Imperial (v)
February-March 1931, The Song of a Mad Minstrel (v)
March 1932, The Last Day (v)
August 1932, Arkham (v)
September 1932, An Open Window (v)
April 1933, Autumn (v)
May 1933, Moonlight on a Skull (v)
August 1937, The Soul-Eater (v)
September 1937, The Dream and the Shadow (v)
October 1937, Which Will Scarcely Be Understood (v)
November 1937, Futility (?Golden goats . . .?) (v)
February 1938, Haunting Columns (v)
March 1938, The Poets (v)
April 1938, The Singer in the Mist (v)
June 1938, The Last Hour (v)
July 1938, Ships (v)
August 1938, Lines Written in the Realization that I Must Die (v)
November 1938, Recompense (v)
December 1938, The Ghost Kings (v)
February 1939, The King and the Oak (v)
March 1939, Desert Dawn (v)
June-July 1939, The Hills of Kandahar (v)
Fall 1989 (#294), Universe (v)
Winter 1989-90 (#295), The Chant Demoniac (v)
Summer 1990 (#297), Memories (?Shall we remember . . .?) (v)
Fall 1991 (#302), Zukala?s Love Song (v)
Winter 1991-1992 (#303), The Zulu Lord (v)

That would indeed be a VERY slender book.

[Ningauble]

I come up with 41 for REH, if you count all the variations of Weird Tales:
[snip]

That would indeed be a VERY slender book.

Thanks for the correction; my count was very hurried.
In the case of Lovecraft: Even if all of HPL's weird poetry were included, that wouldn't amount to much either. Necronomicon Press released it all in two chapbooks, Fungi from Yuggoth and The Fantastic Poetry, and it doesn't add up to many pages.

[Taranaich]

Mikey! I don't want to discourage your news-hounding activities, but Miguel Martins reported on that here:

http://www.thecimmerian.com/?p=7920

D'oh! Here I thought I had a big scoop. Can't believe I missed it first time around.

I do hope that they'll be able to get more stories than just those in Weird Tales. I'm cautiously optimistic: Jones got the stories that didn't appear in Weird Tales for the Fantasy Masterworks Conan books, so it's possible he'll be able to do the same here.

[Mikey_C]

Mikey! I don't want to discourage your news-hounding activities, but Miguel Martins reported on that here:
http://www.thecimmerian.com/?p=7920

Hats off to Miguel then! That must have slipped under the radar. (But at least I was the first to mention it here... )

[godzilladude]

Mikey! I don't want to discourage your news-hounding activities, but Miguel Martins reported on that here:

http://www.thecimmerian.com/?p=7920

D'oh! Here I thought I had a big scoop. Can't believe I missed it first time around.

I do hope that they'll be able to get more stories than just those in Weird Tales. I'm cautiously optimistic: Jones got the stories that didn't appear in Weird Tales for the Fantasy Masterworks Conan books, so it's possible he'll be able to do the same here.

But then what is he going to shoot for? All the weird poetry? That'd be a massive book, maybe half of Collected Poetry. I dunno.

[Mikey_C]

Looking at PS's prices (generally around ?20 for a novel), my guess is these will be slim volumes. I would expect high production standards, though.

[Taranaich]

But then what is he going to shoot for? All the weird poetry? That'd be a massive book, maybe half of Collected Poetry. I dunno.

Well, it doesn't have to be all of them, just a selection, so poor HPL doesn't look so bad in comparison. Or something.

[Hyborian Frog]

Can't really see myself buying these. I already have ALL of it via Collected Poetry of REH(REH Foundation), Collected Poetry of CAS(Hippocampus Press), and The Ancient Track(Nightshade Books).

I'd be interested to see what they put together though!

[Ningauble]

Can't really see myself buying these. I already have ALL of it via Collected Poetry of REH(REH Foundation), Collected Poetry of CAS(Hippocampus Press), and The Ancient Track(Nightshade Books).

I'd be interested to see what they put together though!

In the "Forthcoming Books" section in the latest Locus they are listed as "art" -- could this mean that they will be lavishly illustrated? I'm hoping... But I, too, have all the poems of the above-mentioned guys (I even have the latest issue of Lovecraft Annual which contains some additional poems by HPL that didn't make it into The Ancient Track).

[Hyborian Frog]

Can't really see myself buying these. I already have ALL of it via Collected Poetry of REH(REH Foundation), Collected Poetry of CAS(Hippocampus Press), and The Ancient Track(Nightshade Books).

I'd be interested to see what they put together though!

In the "Forthcoming Books" section in the latest Locus they are listed as "art" -- could this mean that they will be lavishly illustrated? I'm hoping... But I, too, have all the poems of the above-mentioned guys (I even have the latest issue of Lovecraft Annual which contains some additional poems by HPL that didn't make it into The Ancient Track).

With nice art, I may reconsider.

[Ningauble]

I got the following from Pete Crowther at PS Publishing a few days ago, in reply to my question regarding the contents of the books:

We're getting close to finished layouts and covers on all three volumes and we're holding off from any further announcements until they're all ready -- which is when ordering pages will be available. But it's nice to know we've already got some interested parties out there just waiting for news. You'll just have to be patient.

I must admit that I am somewhat tempted, in spite of already having all of the poetry by the Three Great Ones. At worst, they will make great gifts.

[Ningauble]

The latest news at http://news.pspublis...-and-much-more/ doesn't mention REH, but has the following to say about HPL and CAS:

There?ll also be two new Weird Tales poetry books by H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, both of them edited by Stephen Jones, and Not Quite Atlantis: A Selection of Poems by Donald Sidney-Fryer with cover artwork by Les Edwards.

[Retro Pulp]

... a triptych of volumes compiled and edited by Steve Jones and containing the complete Weird Tales poetry of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith? and all of them priced at just ?9.99 each.

HERE

(Thanks to Eldritch Dark)

Now that's one event to look forward to. I hope they include Lovecraft's racist poems as well .

I hope they publish them all in one definitive volume though.

[Ningauble]

Now that's one event to look forward to. I hope they include Lovecraft's racist poems as well .

That would be a strange thing to do, since none of them can be considered "weird" or "fantastic", and none of them were published in his lifetime, least of all in Weird Tales.

I hope they publish them all in one definitive volume though.

A definitive volume of Lovecraft's poetry has already been done and is still in print. A couple of fugitive poems and occasional lines have turned up since its publication, but for all intents and purposes, that's the volume to get.

[Ningauble]

Here are the tables of contents for the three WT poetry volumes from Stanza Press:

REH:
http://store.pspubli...n_The_Mist.html

CAS:
http://store.pspubli...ecromancer.html

HPL:
http://store.pspubli...g/info_479.html