Jacket illustration by Ronald Clyne for The Curse of Yig
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Author | Zealia B. Bishop |
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Cover artist | Ronald Clyne |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | fantasy, horror short stories, memoir |
Publisher | Arkham House |
Publication date
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1953 |
Media type | Print (Hardback) |
Pages | 175 pp |
The Curse of Yig is a collection of fantasy and horror short stories and essays by author Zealia Bishop. It was released in 1953 and was the author's only collection published by Arkham House. It was released in an edition of 1,217 copies.
The three stories had originally appeared in the magazine Weird Tales and were actually ghostwritten by H. P. Lovecraft. The stories are part of the Cthulhu Mythos.
The Curse of Yig contains the following tales:
Boucher and McComas, while dismissing the fiction as "three negligible stories from Weird Tales, praised the "two first-rate biographical profiles."