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The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by British author J. Ramsey Campbell, who dropped the initial from his name in subsequent publications.
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is a collection of short horror stories by British horror fiction author and Mythos contributor Ramsey Campbell published by Arkham House. As it was edited by August Derleth, the stories are considered by this wiki to be set in the Derleth Cthulhu Mythos.
Originally published in 1964 by Arkham House, The Inhabitant of the Lake was later reprinted with new forewords as Cold Print in 1985 with three of the original stories removed and others added in their stead. However, the 1993 reissue of Cold Print saw the missing stories reinstated.
In 2011, PS Publishing released an expanded and illustrated print of the book which was promoted as the '50th Anniversary Edition,' counting from when the stories were first begun in 1961. This edition was titled The Inhabitant of the Lake and Other Unwelcome Tenants (which was to have been the first release title, but had to be changed at the last minute due to a miscommunication with the cover illustrator) and featured the original versions of Campbell's stories, before they had undergone revision by Derleth.
•"The Room in the Castle"
•"The Horror from the Bridge"
•"The Insects from Shaggai"
•"The Render of the Veils"
•"The Inhabitant of the Lake"
•"The Plain of Sound"
The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants. J. Ramsey CAMPBELL. 3.79. 210 ratings24 reviews. A collection of fantasy and horror short stories by British author J. Ramsey Campbell, who dropped the initial from his name in subsequent publications.
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The outcome was a ten-year professional relationship and the appearance in 1964 of the first book of previously unpublished Lovecraftian fiction for five years. It was The Inhabitant of the Lake. This sixtieth-anniversary edition reprints that book in full, including the original introduction.
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Sep 29, 2020 · Choosing as his setting not the Arkham country of Massachusetts, but the Severn Valley in England, J. Ramsey Campbell has expanded the background of the Mythos, and brought into vivid being an entirely new setting to parallel that of Arkham-Dunwich-Innsmouth.
An expanded and illustrated edition of The Inhabitant of the Lake & Less Welcome Tenants (Arkham House, 1964) was published by PS Publishing in 2011 as The Inhabitant of the Lake & Other Unwelcome Tenants. Contents: A Word From the Author. The Room in the Castle. The Horror from the Bridge. The Insects from Shaggai. The Render of the Veils.
THE INHABITANT OF THE LAKE AND LESS WELCOME TENANTS. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1964. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Campbell's first book, a collection of short fiction, published when he was eighteen. 2009 copies printed. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-60.
