The Watchers Out of Time and Others

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name = The Watchers Out of Time and Others
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image_caption = Dust-jacket illustration by Herb Arnold for "The Watchers Out of Time and Others"
author = H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
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cover_artist = Herb Arnold
country = United States
language = English
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genre = Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror short stories
publisher = Arkham House
release_date = 1974
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media_type = Print (Hardback)
pages = ix, 405 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-87054-033-5
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"The Watchers Out of Time and Others" is a collection of stories by August Derleth inspired in part by notes left by H. P. Lovecraft after his death and presented as a "posthumous collaboration" between the two writers. (Derleth acted as Lovecraft's literary executor.) Some controversy exists among Lovecraft's admirers as to the ethics of presenting the stories as collaborative works. It was in an edition of 5,070 copies. The book is an omnibus volume of Derleth's posthumous collaborations with Lovecraft. Several of the stories relate to the Cthulhu Mythos and had appeared previously in the earliest collections "The Lurker at the Threshold", "The Survivor and Others", "The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces", "The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces" and other Arkham House publications.

Contents

"The Watchers Out of Time and Others" contains the following tales:

# "Foreword", by April Derleth
# "The Lurker at the Threshold"
# "The Survivor"
# "Wentworth's Day"
# "The Peabody Heritage"
# "The Gable Window"
# "The Ancestor"
# "The Shadow Out of Space"
# "The Lamp of Alhazred"
# "The Shuttered Room"
# "The Fisherman of Falcon Point"
# "Witches' Hollow"
# "The Shadow in the Attic"
# "The Dark Brotherhood"
# "The Horror from the Middle Span"
# "Innsmouth Clay"
# "The Watchers Out of Time"

Reprints

Arkham House

*2nd printing, 1984 - 1,974 copies.
*3rd printing, 1988 - 3,000 copies.

Others

New York: Carroll & Graf, 1991 (omits "The Lurker at the Threshold").

References

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