The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants
Dust-jacket illustration by Frank Utpatel for The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants
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| Author | J. Ramsey Campbell |
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| Cover artist | Frank Utpatel |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | fantasy, horror short stories |
| Publisher | Arkham House |
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1964 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | xii, 207 pp |
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. It was released in 1964 by Arkham House in an edition of 2,009 copies and was the author's first book. The stories are part of the Cthulhu Mythos. Campbell had originally written his introduction to be included in the book The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces under the title "Cthulhu in Britain". However, Arkham's editor, August Derleth, decided to use it here (retitled "A Word from the Author").
The stories utilise such settings as Brichester, Goatswood and Clotton - Campbell's equivalent English invented locales comprising the Severn Valley, based upon H. P. Lovecraft's invention of such locales as Arkham, Dunwich, and Kingsport. The title story introduces Campbell's fictitious book of occult lore, the Revelations of Gla'aki, similar to Lovecraft's Necronomicon.
Most of the contents (three stories omitted) were reprinted, with some of Campbell's later Lovecraftian work, in his 1985 collection Cold Print. The expanded/definitive edition of Cold Print (Headline, 1993) includes all the tales from The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants. Two forewords by Campbell, both different from that in the Arkham House edition (which is titled "A Word from the Author"), were included.
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