Would you like to read the works of H.P. Lovecraft and raise money for charity? Well now is your chance.
The members of the FantasyBookClub.org & ScienceFictionBookClub.org will be reading all of The Collected Works of H.P. Lovecraft by November 19th 2013 to raise funds in support of the Mental Health charity Mind.
If you are up to the challenge of reading all (or almost all depending on your chosen edition) then you can do good while reading about depravity, madness and cosmic evil.
All money raised as well as all the dues collected for November's normal meeting will be donated to Mind, the mental health charity.
All you have to do is read all HPL's works by 19th November. Easy.
You see our Team LovecraftAthon's progress here
http://www.justgiving.com/teams/CharityLovecraftAthon/
And you can Join our team here
http://www.justgiving.com/teams/CharityLovecraftAthon/join/
Your Dark Lord ®'s own page is here.
If you are posting on social media you can use the hashtag #LovecraftAthon.
To make things super easy we are just going to aim to raise £60 each but together as a team that should add up.
<<<<CLICK HERE TO JOIN TEAM LOVECRAFTATHON>>>>
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THE PRIZE
While the LovecraftAthon is strictly for charity our friends at Orion Publishing have very generously given us a copy of the Leather bound Hardback edition of both the Necronomicon and Eldritch Tales which we will be giving away to the person who raises the most!!!!! These editions are obviously one of our recommended editions.
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WHAT TO READ? - THE MINIMUM READING LIST
The following stories can all be found in the three editions that we are recommending people read from as they are well stocked in shops and online. They should be considered the minimum reading list for you to qualify as having completed the LovecraftAthon. They are in HPL's written order.
01 - 1917 - The Tomb
02 - 1917 - Dagon
03 - 1918 - Polaris
04 - 1919 - Beyond the Wall of Sleep
05 - 1919 - The Transition of Juan Romero
06 - 1919 - The White Ship
07 - 1919 - The Doom That Came to Sarnath
08 - 1919 - The Statement of Randolph Carter
09 - 1920 - The Tree
10 - 1920 - The Cats of Ulthar
11 - 1920 - The Temple
12 - 1920 - Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
13 - 1920 - The Street
14 - 1920 - Celephaïs
15 - 1920 - From Beyond
16 - 1920 - The Picture in the House
17 - 1921 - The Nameless City
18 - 1921 - The Quest of Iranon
19 - 1921 - The Moon-Bog
20 - 1921 - The Outsider
21 - 1921 - The Other Gods
22 - 1921 - The Music of Erich Zann
23 - 1922 - Herbert West — Reanimator
24 - 1922 - Hypnos
25 - 1922 - Azathoth
26 - 1922 - The Hound
27 - 1922 - The Lurking Fear
28 - 1923 - The Rats in the Walls
29 - 1923 - The Unnamable
30 - 1923 - The Festival
31 - 1925 - The Horror at Red Hook
32 - 1925 - He
33 - 1926 - The Descendant
34 - 1926 - The Call of Cthulhu
35 - 1926 - Pickman’s Model
36 - 1926 - The Silver Key
37 - 1926 - The Strange High House in the Mist
38 - 1927 - The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
39 - 1927 - The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
40 - 1927 - The Colour Out of Space
41 - 1927 - The Thing in the Moonlight
42 - 1928 - The Dunwich Horror
43 - 1931 - At the Mountains of Madness
44 - 1931 - The Shadow Over Innsmouth
45 - 1933 - The Thing on the Doorstep
46 - 1933 - The Evil Clergyman
47 - 1934 - The Shadow out of Time
48 - 1935 - The Haunter of the Dark
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WHICH BOOKS SHOULD WE READ FROM?
First of all its worth barinf in mind that all of HPL's works are in the public domain, free of charge!!!!
I've compiled a Google Spreadsheet showing which stories are in which edition is available <<<<<<here>>>>>>.
RECOMMENDED ePUB VERSION
CthulhuChick has compiled an amazing epub which contains lots of original text copies of most HPL stories. It's a free 100% Public Domain version which can be downloaded from here.
RECOMMENDED HARDBACK VERSION
Orion Publishing have a luxury black leather bound hardback Necronomicon & Eldritch Tales which can be purchased from Amazon from this link.
RECOMMENDED PAPERBACK EDITION
Penguin have been publishing their three Paperback Omnibus editions for over 20 year and they are very easy to find new and second hand via Amazon.
