The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants contains the following tales: Now, for the first time ever, the book bears the chosen title. The title had to be changed to match the cover, though I felt few tenants could be less welcome than Glaaki. Alas, when he sent Frank Utpatel instructions for the cover art, he misremembered the addition as and Less Welcome Tenants (perhaps with his own forthcoming Colonel Markesan and Less Pleasant Persons in mind). Derleth thought we might add and Other Unwelcome Tenants, and I liked that too. As well as the stories from the 1964 Arkham House version, the volume prints the early drafts of the tales as they were before being revised according to Derleth's suggestions (these early drafts had previously been gathered in Crypt of Cthulhu 6, No 1 (Whole Number 43) (Hallowmas 1986) ( The Tomb-Herd and Others) together with correspondence between Derleth and Campbell regarding the collection.Ĭampbell explains the story of the volume's original mistitling in his 'Afterword' to the new edition, as follows: '. The expanded reissue appears under the title Campbell had originally intended - The Inhabitant of the Lake and Other Unwelcome Tenants - and as by Ramsey Campbell. (The Arkham House edition was published in 1964, but Campbell began writing the stories that appear in it in 1961, and continued through 1963). The original book was reissued in an expanded and illustrated version promoted as a 'fiftieth anniversary edition' by PS Publishing in 2011. Two forewords by Campbell, both different from that in the Arkham House edition (which is titled 'A Word from the Author'), were included. The expanded/definitive edition of Cold Print (Headline, 1993) includes all the tales from The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants. Most of the contents (three stories omitted) were reprinted, with some of Campbell's later Lovecraftian work, in his 1985 collection Cold Print. The title story introduces Campbell's fictitious book of occult lore, the Revelations of Gla'aki, similar to Lovecraft's Necronomicon. Lovecraft's invention of such locales as Arkham, Dunwich, and Kingsport. The stories utilise such settings as Brichester, Goatswood and Clotton - Campbell's equivalent English invented locales comprising the Severn Valley, based upon H.

However, Arkham's editor, August Derleth, decided to use it here (retitled 'A Word from the Author'). Campbell had originally written his introduction to be included in the book The Dark Brotherhood and Other Pieces under the title 'Cthulhu in Britain'. The stories are part of the Cthulhu Mythos.

It was released in 1964 by Arkham House in an edition of 2,009 copies and was the author's first book. Ramsey Campbell, who dropped the initial from his name in subsequent publications. The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories by British author J.

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