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(4 Audio Cassettes) At the end of World War II, the United States and Soviet Russia vied for dominance around the world. This contest was called The Cold War. Both Korea and Vietnam felt the full brunt of this conflict, each country was divided into two ideologically opposing sectors. To the north, the Communists dominated; to the south, the United States prevailed. In both countries, America faced what has been called her worst nightmare: involvement in a land war in Asia. The United States at War is a collection of cassette presentations that review the political, economic and social forces that have erupted the military conflict. They describe the historical context for each of the nine major U.S. wars, and examine how a military conflict resolved, or failed to resolve, the forces that caused war. ... Read more

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This chilling cycle book includes thirteen tales related to Ithaqua, the Wind-Walker, collected together for the first time. Ithaqua was created by August Derleth and is based upon the terrible winter spirits, or Wendigo, of Native North American mythology. Includes stories by August Derleth, Brian Lumley, Algernon Blackwood, Joseph Payne Brennan, and others. A perfect book for those cold winter nights.

This book is part of an expanding collection of Cthulhu Mythos horror fiction and related topics. Call of Cthulhu fiction focuses on single entities, concepts, or authors significant toreaders and fans of H.P. Lovecraft. ... Read more

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Also known as the Derleth Cycle
If you are reading this right now, you owe August Derleth a debt of gratitude.That is, if you enjoy Lovecraftian fiction, it is probably due to Derleth's efforts to keep it in print and widely read.This is certainly an inestimable service and one for which I appreciate him greatly.

His writing is another matter entirely.

This collection starts off with one of the best weird stories ever, "The Wendigo" by Algernon Blackwood.A deadly creature in the Canadian hinterland issues a siren call, summoning those who hear it to run alongside it in the air, and in the process, stealing the hearer's humanity.This concept is brought to life by atmospheric detail and ruminations on the cowering of men's souls when confronted with the vastness of the unknowable North.This is a masterpiece, recognized even by HP Lovecraft himself.

The next three stories are Derleth's work.Perhaps something about the Wendigo legend caught his fancy - perhaps he just saw an opening to be exploited.In any case, he created a mythos deity "Ithaqua" to be part of the Lovecraft pantheon that would fulfill the duties of the wendigo spirit.His first two stories in this book are the same, "The Thing that Walked on the Wind" and "The Snow Thing".They deal with "cultus interruptus", intruding on a deity's private worship and incurring that wrath.But of course, the trespasser has enough time to write a testimony before being gathered into the great beyond.These are certainly not his worst work; "Beyond the Threshold" would give that title a run for its money.Derleth descends to a new low in pulpishness while shilling for his own publishing press - THE OUTSIDER AND OTHERS is mentioned along with fan-favorite mythos tome THE NECRNOMICON as a source of forbidden knowledge.Why?Because Derleth was trying to sell his own press's copies!Well, a guy's gotta make a buck... In both this and "Dweller in the Darkness", Derleth shills his own books within the story and alternates between mythos baddies Ithaqua and Nyarlathotep as the actual source of the evil occurrences.As editor Robert Proce points out, many of Derleth's stories seem to be put together post haste as if he couldn't decide which Lovecraftian qualities to throw into the story.The collection would have been better selecting only the first Ithaqua story and just making an apology for Derleth and moving on.

That being said, the rest of the book, which builds on the foundation Derleth erected, is pretty good.Lumley has an entry "Born of the Winds", which is a rewrite of Derleth's original Ithaqua atory but with real character this time.Although the outcome was inevitable, I found the story engaging."Spawn of the North" is a wendigo story involving a mountain man and a Texan in the Yukon, executing frontier justice against a corrupt mining company and trying to escape the bounty on their heads.In "Jendick's Swamp", Ithaqua is an Indian wind god without the arctic connotations, allowing the story to be set further south.This one was entertaining if for no other reason than variety.There are a few other stories with the same idea (Ithaqua as wind god), one involving an occult society and one with WWI fighter pilots.

Excepting only Derleth, the tales in this collection are quite good, with a variety of characters, locations, and motivations (and I'll even grant that Derleth's first was seminal).Robert Price's notations were also valuable in helping to understand how Derleth wrote, which was interesting in itself.My only complaint about the volume as a whole is that Price often interjects comments about Biblical higher criticism as he does his editor's notes.Why?The connection seems torturous at best.I don't expect to hear an evaluation of the Cthulhu Mythos in a sermon and I really don't expect to read a discussion on higher criticism when reading about the Cthulhu Mythos.Sometimes these collections are better if you don't read the editor's notes first.Well, caveat emptor!

i have seen the wind, and it's cold enough for me
this book opens with blackwood's great story: the wendigo. B is the master of the setting, noone can create the background and atmosphere like him. a very well written story from Brennan here. and Meloff's story is also an interesting read. derleth is at his best here. i don''t care that much for the guy, have never considered him to be HPL's great successor or anything, but he knows how to write, and i have always considered his story about Ithaqua to be his best contribution. the rest of the stories are well written. i don't think any of chaosium's anthologies contains of so much good writing than this. but good is not great. and the rest of the stories never turns out to be really good. the suspence killed by irrelevant writing going on for too long, mostly. sad. but the book is still wort reading ... Read more

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The two volumes of this series contain the proceedings of the Twelfth International James Joyce Symposium held in Monte Carlo in June 1990 under the auspices of the Princess Grace Irish Library and the patronage of H. S. H. Rainer III, Sovereign Prince of Monaco. The first volume contains general and biographical essays and those dealing with theoretical and linguistic matters, sources, influences, and comparative studies. ... Read more

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Bodleian Library (Oxford)

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Dated at head of the drop-head title: 5. July 1800.The 7,[1]pp. section is the appendix.

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1885Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or an index.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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