The Country of the Worm: Excursions Beyond the Wall of Sleep

Gary Myers first appeared on the Lovecraftian scene in 1970, when August Derleth’s Arkham House published his earliest Lovecraftian dreamworld fantasies in The Arkham Collector. He reached a peak some five years later, when Arkham House published his first collection, The House of the Worm.The Country of the Worm is Myers’s follow-up to The House of the Worm. It contains the ten stories that made up that first book, together with twenty other stories in the same fantastic vein that Myers has written since. Here are thirty explorations bordering on the literary lands of Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany and Clark Ashton Smith. Here are thirty excursions beyond the wall of sleep, into worlds poised between breathtaking beauty and paralyzing fear, where darkness is a palpable presence and reality can be as slippery as a shade.This second edition, released in 2022, adds eight new stories to the twenty-two that comprised the first edition, released in 2013. The short novel, “The City of the Dead,” has been removed from this edition.

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