Title Announcement: The Dunwich Horror and Others

Apr 15

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We recently announced that we are publishing a fine press edition of H P Lovecraft's THE DUNWICH HORROR. We have now decided to extend this edition to a full length volume inspired by the original Arkham House edition published in 1963.

We do not have the full TOC as yet but it will definitely include the following stories:

The Dunwich Horror

The Rats in the Walls

The Terrible Old Man

The Outsider

Cool Air

Pickman's Model

We can further announce that the lettered edition of THE DUNWICH HORROR and Others will be bound by master bookbinder Amy Borezo of Shelter Bookworks. Amy's studio is located in Western Massachusetts, her relationship with Lovecraft and Lovecraft Country is an intimate and personal one, and we are very excited to be collaborating with her on this project.

In 2016 she created the exquisite Shelter Bookworks edition of THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE in an edition of only 40 copies, which is in our opinion one of the most beautiful fine press editions ever published, a masterpiece in concept and design.

Her artist's books have been shown widely and are in over thirty artist's book collections including Yale, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, RISD, Columbia, Smith, and the Library of Congress.

Amy Borezo received an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2000 where she studied Letterpress and the Art of the Book with Walter Feldman of the Ziggurat Press. After graduating, she worked as a specialist at a library bindery and for Master Bookbinder Daniel Kelm, focusing on the editioning of artist's books and boxes with a high level of craftsmanship. Shelter Bookworks opened its doors in the Orange Innovation Center in 2007.

Amy's Studio in Western Massachusetts

The Colour out of Space, by H.P. Lovecraft, introduction by S.T. Joshi. Images, design, and binding by Amy Borezo. 56 pages, 7.3125 x 10.3125”. Edition of 40. 2016

Of all HPL's stories, it has always been The Dunwich Horror which has resonated most with me and we are going to mark the 100th anniversary of it being penned with our most ambitious production to date regarding traditional fine-press production.

The book will be presented in 3 states and printed monotype by Nomad Letterpress.

I am a huge fan of the illustrator Lee Brown Coye, who is most famous for his incredible Arkham House covers of Lovecraft's work which include The Dunwich Horror, Dagon, 3 Tales of Horror and Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. Eli has long dreamed of working on this title. The Dunwich Horror therefore will be illustrated with linocuts, including the reduction linocut technique printing in two colours and hand coloured linocuts which will be inspired by and evoke the primitive, graphic qualities of Coye's work and I believe inhabit the unique atmosphere of Lovecraft's unique landscape.

In his short essay on Coye in the glorious Centipede Press edition 'A Lovecraft Retrospective', Stefan Dziemiancowicz writes...

" 'The true epicure in the terrible, to whom a new thrill of unutterable ghastliness is the chief end and justification of existence, esteems most of all the ancient, lonely farmhouses of backwoods New England; for there the dark elements of strength, solitude, grotesueness and ignorance combine to form the perfection of the hideous'

When H.P. Lovecraft wrote this memorable opening line for his story 'The Picture in the hous' in 1920, he was articulating an idea that runs through much of his fiction: how in the civilized world , there are still pockets of primivitism where ancient horrors, born of superstion and savagery, maintain a foothold. He might just as well have been appraising the work of Lee Brown Coye (1907-1981), the artist who captured, better than any other, the horrific potential of the primitive in Lovecraft's writing."

This title is scheduled for pre-order around August 2027, and publication late 2027/early 2028.