Please note: The edition was fully subscribed prior to publication in November 2024. These pages are for reference only.

HM’s new edition of The Dunwich Horror (7.75 x 10.5 inches, 54 pages + prints), with original aquatints by Briony Morrow-Cribbs, is limited to 50 numbered copies (+ six hors commerce), all signed by the artist. The text was set in Bembo and Desdemona types, with chapter tailpieces created from Bodoni ornaments, and printed from polymer plates at HM with a handpress, on dampened Barcham Green handmade papers. The aquatints have been be printed by the artist on Arches wove. Twenty copies have been boxed with first state proofs (i.e. etchings) of the prints, and some additional material. The edition was sewn and quarter-bound by hand at HM, with original etchings by the artist covering the boards.

Our approach is not to illustrate the story; this isn’t a book for children. Briony’s prints draw on the story’s imagery and tone to create a visual accompaniment. They are interspersed through the text, placed to provide a pause – or even interruption – to the narrative, a moment for the reader to ponder the image’s textual connections and references.

The Dunwich Horror was first published in Weird Tales, in 1929. The story partly revolves around Lovecraft’s fictitious Necronomicon, an ancient text of terrible secrets that developed its own history as it made appearances in stories by other authors. A short history of the book written by Lovecraft was published in 1938 by the Rebel Press as a modest four-page pamphlet. This text is included as an appendix in HM’s new edition of The Dunwich Horror.