Cold Print is a collection of Lovecraftian

H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft --often credited as H.P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction....

 horror stories by Ramsey Campbell

Ramsey Campbell

John Ramsey Campbell is an English horror fiction author.Since he first came to prominence in the mid-1960s, critics have cited Campbell as one of the leading writers in his field: T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today", while S. T...

, first published in 1985 and reissued in an expanded edition in 1993 by Headline

Hodder Headline

Headline Publishing Group is a British publishing company. It was founded in 1986 by Tim Hely Hutchinson, and acquired Hodder & Stoughton in 1992 to form Hodder Headline. It was acquired by Hachette Livre, from the WHSmith Group PLC, in 2005....

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Cold Print contains all the stories from Campbell's first collection, The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants

The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants

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...

, and two stories ("The Church in High Street" and "The Stone on the Island"), which first appeared in anthologies edited by August Derleth

August Derleth

August William Derleth was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first publisher of the writings of H. P...

, as well as later material written explicitly in the Lovecraft vein. "Among the pictures are these:" is not a narrative story but a description of numerous sketches made by the author.

The book is dedicated to Fritz Leiber

Fritz Leiber

Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theatre and films, playwright, expert chess player and a champion fencer. Possibly his greatest chess accomplishment was winning clear first in the 1958 Santa Monica Open.. With...

 and Robert Bloch

Robert Bloch

Robert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock...

, "who were there before me, and did it better", and contains two introductory pieces by the author, "Lovecraft: An Introduction" (1990) and "Chasing the Unknown" (1985).

The book contains the following stories:

• "The Church in High Street" (1962)
• "The Room in the Castle" (1964)
• "The Horror from the Bridge" (1964)
• "The Insects from Shaggai" (1964)
• "The Render of the Veils" (1964)
• "The Inhabitant of the Lake" (1964)
• "The Plain of Sound" (1964)
• "The Return of the Witch" (1964)
• "The Mine on Yuggoth" (1964)
• "The Will of Stanley Brooke" (1964)
• "The Moon-Lens" (1964)
• "The Stone on the Island" (1964)
• "Before the Storm" (1980)
• "Cold Print" (1969)
• "The Franklyn Paragraphs" (1973)
• "A Madness from the Vaults" (1972)
• "Among the pictures are these:" (1973)
• "The Tugging" (1976)
• "The Faces at Pine Dunes" (1980)
• "Blacked Out" (1985)
• "The Voice of the Beach" (1982)