The House of the Worm is a collection of Cthulhu Mythos short stories by American author Gary Myers. It has been described as a pastiche of H. P. Lovecraft and Lord Dunsany, and is essentially an expansion on Lovecraft's Dream Cycle.
Publication History[]
Published by Arkham House in 1975 as a limited-edition hardcover with a run of 4,144 copies, The House of the Worm was writer Gary Myers' first published book. All ten of the stories contained in this volume were reprinted in a subsequent collection of Myers' Mythos work, The Country of the Worm, in 2013.
Contents[]
- "Introduction"
- I "The House of the Worm"
- II "Yohk the Necromancer"
- III "Xiurhn"
- IV "Passing of a Dreamer"
- V "The Return of Zhosph"
- VI "The Three Enchantments"
- VII "Hazuth-Kleg"
- VIII "The Loot of Golthoth"
- IX "The Four Sealed Jars"
- X "The Maker of Gods"
Trivia[]
- Despite being a collection of short stories, The House of the Worm was actually marketed as a novel by Arkham House, as shown in the publisher's text on the dust jacket below. The stories are at least thematically linked and sometimes directly reference events in earlier tales in the collection..
Gallery[]
Full dust jacket