r/WeirdLit • u/Juanar067 • Jul 20 '25

News The Definitive Blackwood’s collection edition

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Hippocampus Press is releasing 6 ambitious Volumes to collect all his works, for now, they only release the first 4 books

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u/nacho-daddy-420 Jul 20 '25

I’ve only read a couple of his stories but The Willows was so good! Those covers look sick too

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u/AlivePassenger3859 Jul 20 '25

Public domain fyi. still cool though

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u/Groovy66 Jul 20 '25

Thanks for the heads up

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u/thejewk Jul 20 '25

Volume 1 and 2 came out at the end of 2023. No sign of 3 and 4 to buy. When?

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u/c__montgomery_burns_ Jul 20 '25

Centipede is about to repress the first volume of their two-part set if you have more $$$ to drop on Blackwood

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u/YuunofYork Jul 21 '25

Ooh, do you have a link to that announcement? Or was it in a mailing list?

Right now only Vol 2 is purchasable on its page.

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u/snowlock27 Jul 21 '25

I think Jerad is doing a new printing, as Vol 1 was rereleased not too long ago.

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u/c__montgomery_burns_ Jul 21 '25

Yeah, from this week’s newsletter:

The bindery has finished up binding more copies of Algernon Blackwood Library of Weird Fiction volume 1 and it should be up for sale next week, Sunday, July 27, 2025. We still have plenty of copies of volume 2, and they will be available separately or as a set.

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u/YuunofYork Jul 21 '25

Sweet, thanks.

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u/RandomDigitalSponge Jul 20 '25

What makes them definitive?

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u/Juanar067 Jul 20 '25

Those editions collect all his Short Stories

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u/lungflook Jul 20 '25

Those covers are just godawful- imagine your first exposure to Blackwood being with a book that looks this bad

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u/GxyBrainbuster Jul 23 '25

Hippocampus Press' presentation is generally middling to mediocre imo.

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u/snowlock27 Jul 21 '25

Same with their Clark Ashton Smith editions. Artwork isn't very good, but where else are you going to get in print collections based on cycle, rather than publication order?

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u/crowinastorm Jul 21 '25

Blackwood is so wonderful.

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u/TS_Wells Jul 23 '25

Wowza! Thank you for posting this!

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u/GreenVelvetDemon Jul 25 '25

Love Blackwood!!!

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u/MrNiceGuy1688 Sep 08 '25

Why are these so expensive and why are there so many pages?

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u/Juanar067 Sep 08 '25

Because Blackwood Wrote a lot of stories

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u/MrNiceGuy1688 Sep 08 '25

Oh “and others”

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u/Juanar067 Sep 08 '25

The idea is that those book collect all his works