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It is more efficient to do the ACE first, think about it.Done
1. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... – Duplicate of ISBN 9780871404534, but the duplicate has way more shelvings. Also, Victor LaValle didn’t write the introduction to this book, it was Alan Moore.
2. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... – Duplicate of ISBN 9780871404534.
3. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... – this edition is the current hardcover ACE for ISBN 9780871404534, but it was never assigned the ISBNs it should have. The following steps need to be taken:
3A. Create the following ACE for ISBN 9780871404534:
TITLE: The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
AUTHOR: H.P. Lovecraft
EDITOR: Leslie S. Klinger
INTRODUCTION: Alan Moore
ISBN-10: 0008180016
ISBN-13: 9780871404534
ASIN: 0008180016
PUBLISHER: Liveright
DATE PUBLISHED: 2020 (I don’t have a specific month or day, but digging through the Wayback Machine confirms that the cover art swapped over from the gold tentacles to the pink tentacle beastie in 2020: https://web.archive.org/web/201910271...).
NUMBER OF PAGES: WorldCat confirms 852: https://search.worldcat.org/title/884...
FORMAT: Hardcover
DESCRIPTION:
“With an increasing distance from the twentieth century . . . the New England poet, author, essayist, and stunningly profuse epistolary Howard Phillips Lovecraft is beginning to emerge as one of that tumultuous period’s most critically fascinating and yet enigmatic figures,” writes Alan Moore in his introduction to The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft. Despite this nearly unprecedented posthumous trajectory, at the time of his death at the age of forty-six, Lovecraft’s work had appeared only in dime-store magazines, ignored by the public and maligned by critics. Now well over a century after his birth, Lovecraft is increasingly being recognized as the foundation for American horror and science fiction, the source of “incalculable influence on succeeding generations of writers of horror fiction” (Joyce Carol Oates).
In this volume, Leslie S. Klinger reanimates Lovecraft with clarity and historical insight, charting the rise of the erstwhile pulp writer, whose rediscovery and reclamation into the literary canon can be compared only to that of Poe or Melville. Weaving together a broad base of existing scholarship with his own original insights, Klinger appends Lovecraft’s uncanny oeuvre and Kafkaesque life story in a way that provides context and unlocks many of the secrets of his often cryptic body of work.
Over the course of his career, Lovecraft—“the Copernicus of the horror story” (Fritz Leiber)—made a marked departure from the gothic style of his predecessors that focused mostly on ghosts, ghouls, and witches, instead crafting a vast mythos in which humanity is but a blissfully unaware speck in a cosmos shared by vast and ancient alien beings. One of the progenitors of “weird fiction,” Lovecraft wrote stories suggesting that we share not just our reality but our planet, and even a common ancestry, with unspeakable, godlike creatures just one accidental revelation away from emerging from their epoch of hibernation and extinguishing both our individual sanity and entire civilization.
Following his best-selling The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Leslie S. Klinger collects here twenty-two of Lovecraft’s best, most chilling “Arkham” tales, including “The Call of Cthulhu,” At the Mountains of Madness, “The Whisperer in Darkness,” “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” “The Colour Out of Space,” and others. With nearly 300 illustrations, including full-color reproductions of the original artwork and covers from Weird Tales and Astounding Stories, and more than 1,000 annotations, this volume illuminates every dimension of H. P. Lovecraft and stirs the Great Old Ones in their millennia of sleep.
EDITION LANGUAGE: English
COVER ART: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/8... // https://a.co/d/7uh8vaN
3B. Merge it with the above linked edition.