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''The Lurker at the Threshold'' is a short novel in the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror. It was written by August Derleth, based on short fragments written by H. P. Lovecraft,〔April Derleth, "Foreword", ''The Watchers Out of Time'', p. ix.〕 who died in 1937, and published as a collaboration between the two authors. According to S. T. Joshi, of the novel's 50,000 words, 1,200 were written by Lovecraft.〔S.T. Joshi, ''H. P. Lovecraft: A Comprehensive Bibliography''〕〔("August Derleth's 'Posthumous collaborations'" ), The H. P. Lovecraft Archive.〕 The novel was originally published in 1945 by Arkham House in a hardcover edition of 3,041 copies, listed as the second (and final) volume in the "Library of Arkham House Novels of Fantasy and Terror". A British hardcover followed from Museum Press in 1948. The first British paperback was issued in 1970, with an American paperback published by Beagle Books in 1971. The novel has since been regularly reissued by Ballantine Books, then by Carroll & Graf. A French translation, ''Le rôdeur devant le seuil'', appeared in 1973.〔(ISFDB publishing history )〕 ''Lurker'' was included in ''The Watchers Out of Time and Others'', the 1974 Arkham House omnibus edition of Derleth's stories credited as collaborations with Lovecraft (but excluded from similarly titled paperback editions compiling those stories).〔 ==Composition== "I constructed and wrote ''The Lurker at the Threshold'', Derleth acknowledged, "which had nowhere been laid out, planned, or plotted by Lovecraft". He elsewhere described the novel as "decidedly inferior work, since 9/10ths of it was written by me from Lovecraft’s notes".〔"Afterword: Lovecraft in Britain", Stephen Jones, in ''Eldritch Tales'', 2011〕 Derleth reported using two Lovecraft fragments in writing the novel.〔"The Unfinished Manuscripts", ''Some Notes on H. P. Lovecraft'', Arkham House, 1959〕 S. T. Joshi, however, finds that while Derleth incorporated text from two Lovecraft fragments into the novel,〔''H. P. Lovecraft and Lovecraft Criticism: An Annotated Bibliography'', Wildside Press, 2002, pp. 96, 147〕 "Of Evill Sorceries Done in New-England of Daemons in no Humane Shape" and "The Round Tower",〔First published as "Notes for the Round Tower: (An Unwritten Story)" in an amateur magazine, ''Golden Atom'', in 1943〕 he also used an untitled fragment, usually referred to as "The Rose Window", in framing his narrative.〔("Legacy of the Lurker" ), Robert M. Price, ''Crypt of Cthulhu'' #6, 1982〕 Derleth cited only the "Tower" and "Window" fragments in his account of his writing ''Lurker'',〔"In the Steps of Lovecraft", Arthur F. Hillman, ''Fantasy Review'', December 1948, p.24〕 although he drew on "Evill Sorceries" much more extensively.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Lurker at the Threshold」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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