The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft

  The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales

  edited with an introduction and notes by Maria Tatar

  The Annotated Brothers Grimm

  by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, with an introduction by A. S. Byatt, edited with a preface and notes by Maria Tatar

  The Annotated Hunting of the Snark

  by Lewis Carroll, with an introduction by Adam Gopnik, edited with notes by Martin Gardner

  The Annotated Uncle Tom’s Cabin

  by Harriet Beecher Stowe, edited with an introduction and notes by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Hollis Robbins

  The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen

  translated by Maria Tatar and Julie Allen, with an introduction and notes by Maria Tatar

  The Annotated Secret Garden

  by Frances Hodgson Burnett, edited with an introduction and notes by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

  The New Annotated Dracula

  by Bram Stoker, with an introduction by Neil Gaiman, edited with a preface and notes by Leslie S. Klinger

  The Annotated Wind in the Willows

  by Kenneth Grahame, with an introduction by Brian Jacques, edited with a preface and notes by Annie Gauger

  The Annotated Peter Pan

  by J. M. Barrie, edited with an introduction and notes by Maria Tatar

  ALSO BY LESLIE S. KLINGER

  The Life and Times of Mr. Sherlock Holmes, John H. Watson, M.D.,

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Other Notable Personages

  “The Date Being—?”: A Compendium of Chronological Data

  with Andrew Jay Peck

  The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library

  a ten-volume scholarly edition of the Sherlock Holmes stories

  Baker Street Rambles

  Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle, & The Bookman: Pastiches, Parodies, Letters, Columns, and Commentary from America’s “Magazine of Literature and Life” (1895–1933)

  with S. E. Dahlinger

  The Grand Game: A Celebration of Sherlockian Scholarship

  with Laurie R. King

  A Study in Sherlock: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon

  with Laurie R. King

  In the Shadow of Sherlock Holmes: Classic Detective Fiction

  In the Shadow of Dracula: Classic Vampire Fiction, 1819–1914

  with Jeff Conner

  The Annotated Sandman

  with Neil Gaiman

  Photographs by Will Hart used with permission. Photographs by Donovan Loucks copyright © by Donovan K. Loucks as of the date indicated and used with permission. Maps by Joseph Morales copyright © 2006, 2007 and used with permission. Map by Karl Beech copyright © Karl Beech 2012 (http://myriadlives.wordpress.com) and used with permission. Illustrations by Jason C. Eckhardt copyright © Jason C. Eckhardt as of the date indicated and used with permission. Use of the text and images of the stories, letters, and essays written by Howard Phillips Lovecraft is with permission of Lovecraft Holdings, LLC. Introduction copyright © 2014 by Alan Moore. All other material is copyright © 2014 by Leslie S. Klinger.

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