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After Yahoo!’s announcement to sell del.icio.us quite a few people were looking for a safer home for their bookmarks. And found Pinboard. If you are among them you may like the following script by Rafael Bugajewski which imports your Pinboard bookmarks into DEVONthink. Click here to download the script.
In early December (2010), I used a file from the Australian Project Gutenberg to create an EPUB of most of Lovecraft’s works. It wasn’t a comprehensive file and while it’s been popular (just having hit 1,000 downloads this morning, in under 3 months), it isn’t what I want for my own use or what the librarian-in-training in me thinks should be out there.
So, after several months of working on the project when I could—snatching minutes and hours between work, grad school, and making Cthulhus—I am very proud to announce that I have finished an eBook of The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft. In fact, I expanded my original project and made versions both for the Nook (EPUB) and for the Kindle (MOBI). If you’re downloading to a mobile device and want the EPUB, try this download link instead or (new) if you have Stanza or if you’re getting a validation error try this copy instead.
I started this project because I couldn’t find a free or inexpensive (or expensive) EPUB eBook of Lovecraft’s complete works for my Nook. Many compilations or standalone stories exist, but as you can see from the table of contents list below, there are a lot of these stories and having them in individual files would be a bit of an organizational nightmare.
About the eBook
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft contains all the original stories which Lovecraft wrote as an adult. It begins in 1917 with “The Tomb” and ends in 1935 with his last original work “The Haunter of the Dark.” The book is ordered chronologically by the date the story was written. Because Lovecraft was a terrible businessman and left no heirs to his intellectual property, all of his works are already in the public domain. I did not include collaborations or revisions because some of those works may still be under the co-author’s copyright.
After putting together one very large HTML file containing the complete works with a linked table of contents, I formatted it as EPUB for Nook using Sigil and converted it to MOBI for Kindle using Calibre. When I created the original EPUB of most of Lovecraft’s works, based on a file from the Australian Project Gutenberg, I had used Calibre to convert it from HTML. But while Calibre converts well from EPUB to MOBI, it doesn’t work nearly so well going from HTML to EPUB. HTML tags were dropping in places, making the layout look sloppy. Sigil’s interface allows one to create and edit the book, which made it something far better than I was getting through my many Calibre conversion attempts.
3/4/11 – I’ve updated the eBook with a cover created by Santiago Casares, an artist and Lovecraftian fan.
A note on using your Nook’s chapter lookup function (this may apply to other devices, my testers didn’t respond one way or the other). If you use Go To -> Chapter, there are a few unnamed “chapters” at the beginning of the chapter list. After that it’s got a proper list of each story’s title.
Putting the eBook on Your eReader
The eBook downloads contain slightly different files for the two differing formats. I’ve put together a page with my own and other people’s tips and walk-throughs to help you add the book to your eReader. People with Sony Readers are particularly advised to use the page as it appears they’ll need to do an EPUB -> EPUB conversion on Calibre or it won’t display correctly.
Licensing and Acknowledgments
This book and all the works contained therein are in the public domain. The book may be redistributed, torn apart, revised, etc. If you choose to share or redistribute the book, please give credit to CthulhuChick.com.
I would like to express my gratitude to three websites without which I could not have made the book: HPLovecraft.com, DagonBytes.com, and Project Gutenberg (especially the Australian Project Gutenberg). I’d also like to thank The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast for getting me interested in Lovecraft and Terry from GameCouch for proofreading the Kindle version.
If you discover any typos or other problems with the eBook, please leave a comment or send me an e-mail letting me know which story and format to fix! I’ll do my best to keep the download file updated based on reader reports.
Table of Contents
The eBook’s table of contents is listed below. It includes the year each story was written.
- The Tomb (1917)
- Dagon (1917)
- Polaris (1918)
- Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919)
- Memory (1919)
- Old Bugs (1919)
- The Transition of Juan Romero (1919)
- The White Ship (1919)
- The Doom That Came to Sarnath (1919)
- The Statement of Randolph Carter (1919)
- The Terrible Old Man (1920)
- The Tree (1920)
- The Cats of Ulthar (1920)
- The Temple (1920)
- Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1920)
- The Street (1920)
- Celephaïs (1920)
- From Beyond (1920)
- Nyarlathotep (1920)
- The Picture in the House (1920)
- Ex Oblivione (1921)
- The Nameless City (1921)
- The Quest of Iranon (1921)
- The Moon-Bog (1921)
- The Outsider (1921)
- The Other Gods (1921)
- The Music of Erich Zann (1921)
- Herbert West — Reanimator (1922)
- Hypnos (1922)
- What the Moon Brings (1922)
- Azathoth (1922)
- The Hound (1922)
- The Lurking Fear (1922)
- The Rats in the Walls (1923)
- The Unnamable (1923)
- The Festival (1923)
- The Shunned House (1924)
- The Horror at Red Hook (1925)
- He (1925)
- In the Vault (1925)
- The Descendant (1926)
- Cool Air (1926)
- The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
- Pickman’s Model (1926)
- The Silver Key (1926)
- The Strange High House in the Mist (1926)
- The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1927)
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)
- The Colour Out of Space (1927)
- The Very Old Folk (1927)
- The Thing in the Moonlight (1927)
- The History of the Necronomicon (1927)
- Ibid (1928)
- The Dunwich Horror (1928)
- The Whisperer in Darkness (1930)
- At the Mountains of Madness (1931)
- The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1931)
- The Dreams in the Witch House (1932)
- The Thing on the Doorstep (1933)
- The Evil Clergyman (1933)
- The Book (1933)
- The Shadow out of Time (1934)
- The Haunter of the Dark (1935)
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We made Talker free
The time has come to talk of many things: About Talker’s present and future, and about what’s in for you.
Talker is now a part of the Teambox ecosystem. If you don’t know about it yet, I encourage you to take a look at our fine project collaboration software.
We love Talker. Just as Teambox, it became an essential part of our workflow. We want Talker to be useful for more people, and that’s why…
Talker is now free, with unlimited users
We are doing this because Teambox is our premium offering, and we consider group chat something essential for any team.
There is still a premium Talker version offering more storage and logs for those who choose paid accounts.
What will happen to existing premium plans?
If you have a premium plan, you can either keep your current plan indefinitely or ask for a refund for your last payment and stay on the free plan.
What’s next for Talker
We are working on opening more parts of Talker. In the following months, we plan to release more tools for embedding and writing custom clients.
The focus will be on having rooms that are either public or private, and having different clients that can connect to it.
One of the applications consuming Talker as a chat service will be Teambox, which we plan to integrate fully with Talker.
Gute Nacht, FDP!
Als ich das letzte Mal auf die Uhr sah, war es 11:57. Ich weiß noch, dass ich dann mit dem Kopf auf die Tastatur gefallen bin und während ich träumte versuchte, mit der Nase „Bitte aufhören“ zu tippen. Dabei hatte ich nur sieben Sekunden vom wahrscheinlich charismatischsten FDPler dieser Tage gesehen, darf ich vorstellen: Friedhelm Ernst, FDP Bruchsal.
Ich leg mich jetzt wieder hin.
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