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The Ceremonies is a Lovecraftian horror novel by T. E. D. Klein, published by the Viking Press in 1984. Klein's only published novel, it is an expansion of his 1972 short story, "The Events at Poroth Farm."
The book is in part an homage to "The White People" by Arthur Machen, quotes from whom appear as epigraphs before several chapters.
The Ceremonies won the 1986 British Fantasy Award for best novel.[1] Stephen King has called the novel "the Moby-Dick of '80s horror," "the best of the best" of the genre from that decade.[2]
Publication History[]
After its initial publication in hardcover by Viking in June 1984, The Ceremonies was released in paperback by Bantam in July 1985. A British edition was published by Pan in 1986.[3]
A limited-edition hardcover version came out from PS Publishing in June 2016, followed by a trade paperback by Drugstore Indian Press in November 2017.[3]
A German translation was published by Goldmann in September 1986, titled MorgenGrauen, "Morning Grey." A Spanish version called Ceremonias macabras came out in 1987, from Martinez Roca, with another German translation (titled The Ceremonies) published by Piper in December 2022.[3]
External Links[]
- The Ceremonies (novel) at Wikipedia
- Title: The Ceremonies at Internet Speculative Fiction Database
References[]
- ↑ Science Fiction Awards Database, "1986 British Fantasy Awards."
- ↑ Twitter, Stephen King, January 4, 2018.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Internet Speculative Fiction Database, "Title: The Ceremonies."