The Survivor and Others

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The Survivor and Others
literary executor
after the latter's death in 1937.

Contents

  • "The Survivor"
  • "Wentworth's Day"
  • "The Peabody Heritage"
  • "The Gable Window"
  • "The Ancestor"
  • "The Shadow Out of Space"
  • "The Lamp of Alhazred"

Except as noted, the stories were original to this volume. "The Survivor" had been published originally in the July 1954 issue of Weird Tales. "The Gable Window" had appeared in the May 1957 issue of the science fiction/fantasy pulp Saturn under the title of "The Murky Glass".[1]

Reception

Floyd C. Gale of Galaxy Science Fiction said that except for "The Shadow Out of Space" "Derleth generates unintended humor in most of his reconstructions", and that "Alhazred" "might aptly have been titled 'Eulogy' ... an idealized version of what Lovecraft's life and death should have been".[3] Avram Davidson concluded that Derleth "does his best to conjure up the late master's prose from its essential salts, but he doesn't make it [...] because he is as sane as they come, and Lovecraft was as nutty as a five-dollar fruitcake."[4]

Everett F. Bleiler, noting that several of these pastiches were modeled on published Lovecraft stories, found all were "routine" except the "much more interesting 'The Lamp of Alhazred'".[5]

References

  1. ^ Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections
  2. ^ "Recommended Reading," F&SF, July 1957, p.92.
  3. ^ Gale, Floyd C. (April 1960). "Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf". Galaxy Science Fiction. pp. 100–103.
  4. F&SF
    , January 1963, pp.48-50
  5. ^ E. F. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction, Kent State University Press, 1983, p.327-28

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