Wordsworth Editions in the U.K. has just brough out a massive trade paperback collection of Henry S. Whitehead called VOODO TALES: The Ghost Stories of Henry S. Whitehead. Looking at the contents, all of the Arkham House books WEST INDIA LIGHTS and JUMBEE AND OTHERS have been included, plus the paperback THE BLACK BEAST AND OTHER TALES, and uncollected stories. Virtually all of Whitehead's fantastic fiction has been collected. He was in WEIRD TALES in the late 20 and early 30s and in STRANGE TALES. There are two straight adventure stories from ADVENTURE, a story from PEOPLE'S, a story from THE POPULAR MAGAZINE, and a western uncollected.
So get this book. Whitehead is one of the top seven writers for WEIRD TALES- Lovecraft, Smith, Howard, Donald Wandrei, C. L. Moore, Whitehead, and Ray Bradbury.
www.wordsworth-editions.com
Morgan
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Posted 06 October 2012 - 04:30 PM
Ignorance can be cured. Stupid is forever.
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Posted 06 October 2012 - 04:36 PM
Many thanks, Morgan.
I've read a couple of Whitehead's tales in anthologies and thought they were pretty good.
But noting how highly H.P. Lovecraft esteemed the author, I always wished i could find more of his work so as to really understand what HPL saw in him.
This volume fixes that problem with a vengeance..
I've read a couple of Whitehead's tales in anthologies and thought they were pretty good.
But noting how highly H.P. Lovecraft esteemed the author, I always wished i could find more of his work so as to really understand what HPL saw in him.
This volume fixes that problem with a vengeance..
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Posted 06 October 2012 - 06:20 PM
Been looking forward to this since I heard about it. I remember seeing those Wordsworth horror anthologies on sale one October at a book store, all of them with lurid titles, jet black, an impressed skull on a third of the page of the cover and red, dripping blood. A lot of those spook stories from the late 1800s, early 1900s are a fairly tedious read, but I'm definitely thrilled about the Whitehead collection. He's fresh on my mind again because last night I was reading REHs letters vol III and Howard quoted to Lovecraft a letter from Whitehead that was printed in a 1923 issue of adventure.
