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Collected Fiction Of William Hope Hodgson Volume 5: The Dream Of X & Other Fantastic Visions (The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson) (v. 5)

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I goofed and paid 90.00 for this book last week. The book is in my possesion, but Night Shade books JUST released it, so don't pay anything over $35.00. The book is WELL WORTH the price. It has a minor printing error and is scheduled to be corrected soon with a new printing. This might be worth the investment for collectors of missprinted books. The error is negligible and NIGHT SHADE has a corrected version of the story in PDF form on their website.

It seems like a very long wait to finally get my hands on this book, but it is well worth the wait. I purchased it directly from the publisher, but it looks like Amazon has it at least for now. The book consists of four sections: Fantastic Visions; Copyright Versions; Alternate Versions; and Counterfeits. There are about 31 stories, which makes for a nice long reading. All fans of the previous volumes will want to have this to complete the collection.
One note of interest to me. There is a story here called "Captain Dan Danblasten" which is almost identical to "The Home-Coming of Captain Dan" in Volume 2 of the series, with just a slight name change to the main character. This is not mentioned in the introduction to either volume and make me wonder about it. Another mystery!
Like all the other volumes, this one is quite handsome and well-made. What a shame that the author died so young.

How can this seller be selling a book that is yet to be published, me thinks he lies