The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham (The Annotated Books)

This is the second volume of Klinger’s Lovecraft annotations and it is full of information.It comes in about half the weight of the first one ,still a large book but carrying around and reading isn’t as hard as the first.The annotations also are all closer to the page they are referring to this time.Most of of them are in the same page.This is an improvement because the first volume had some very long annotations and if 3 or so were close ,you would be flipping back to find the information.Shorter stories in this one ,one of my favorites “He” is included and I found out even more information.Leslie is very in depth and keeps almost all political/social commentary out of all of his works which is such a positive especially now and with Lovecraft.”Just the facts,Mam” Joe Friday of annotated works. Beautiful photos and illustrations inside as well.

Well, the rest of his Horror works anyway. Leaving a comedy work like Sweet Ermengarde itself is understandable. This volume focuses more on HP's non-Mythos horror stories like The Lurking Fear, Cool Air, and Pickman's Model, and well as some of his 'Dreamlands' cycle. Their lack of includment in the previous volume was my one and only complaint about the previous volume, which was focused primarily on his Cthlulu/Arkham stories. Overall, this is a much slimmer book than the first one, though still not light reading by any means.

Neat expansion on the HPL universe. The commentary is a detailed and fascinating addition to the mythos.

Been a Lovecraft fan since I was in 7th. grade. Still have all the Ballantine Books paperback editions from 1973. This edition is a joy to read!

My10 year old flew through this book in about two weeks. The hardback arrived in great condition. The writing style is older which not everyone enjoys. The font size is average.

This is the second volume. I already own the first volume, so this was a must.

The reason I'm giving this a 4 star review is because this book arrived with salt/sand inside the box it came in. I was very confused and worried about the condition of the book. Upon checking it, it had this grainy material inside the hardcover flaps and seam, but not in the pages. The cover was hardly damaged, but you can still feel the indentations when you run your hands over them. I decided to keep it, but still felt necessary to explain what happened. Anyway, this goes along nicely with my copy of the Annotated H.P. Lovecraft

a must for any lover of horror or weird fiction

So worth it if you're a Lovecraft fan.

Mainly I prefer the form factor of this volume since it's a little smaller and easier to handle than the first (which is still a lovely book). It includes a really nice collection of stories.. I mostly got it for The Lurking Fear (loved the artwork and original publication information contained within), but it was nice to find that it also includes some of Lovecraft's lesser known stories which are even slight collaborations such as Under the Pyramids. Many stories which fit in between these two in terms of their popularity are included I now have the two annotated Lovecraft's and also 'Medusa's Coil and Others' and 'The Crawling Chaos and Others' and I'm really happy with this particular combination of books as a means to owning pretty much everything Lovecraft wrote in the most satisfying way to me in terms of readability and visual/physical quality of books, decided upon after very careful and lengthy research on the various current options available for doing this, of which there are many!

This follow up volume to the 2014 annotated Lovecraft concentrates on many of his shorter stories and those not belonging to the so-called 'Cthulhu Mythos' hence the 'Beyond Arkham' title but in my opinion includes some of his very best writing. Both books are really for Lovecraft aficionados looking for more background on the stories themselves as well as revealing more about their creator and Klingor has done a superb job again in this dept with salient facts and illustrations. I wouldn't recommend this if you are new to the writer - get one of the excellent (and now pretty inexpensive) collected fictions of the author (the Chartwell Classics Complete fiction is an absolute bargain). My only criticism of this volume is the introduction by Victor Lavalle that brings up Lovecraft's undoubted racism but doesn't try to explain or discuss it but merely suggests to ignore it for the greater legacy of what he has left.

The book is well made and well written, has excellent writing and references. Be sure to also get the FIRST volume, "The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft" to accompany this volume.

Very nice collection of (maybe lesser known) HPL stories with lots of background information. For all fans of HPL a must have.