[Prestidigitweeze]

I can't believe this tangent has gone on to plague you for two whole pages.

"Almost-Complete" does not make the collection sound as if it were complete. It is an unusually accurate (though perhaps unnecessary) compound adjective for you to use.

If you did use it, masses of people would bypass your version to download other versions -- possibly less complete and carefully formatted -- in the mistaken belief their titles indicated a greater number of stories.

Besides which, simply titling the collection Complete Works is not misleading except in the literal sense. If one chooses to be literal, innumerable volumes of "Complete Works" have remained incomplete whether published by Naughty Oxygen Masks Quarterly or Oxford University Press, with this or that piece being disincluded for various reasons.

This has gone on for centuries, hence the seeming paradox, Complete Works (Newly Expanded).

Complete Collection is more ambiguous, since you could argue it means a complete version of your own collection. The real reason people use the word collection is to distinguish single authors (short-story collections) from many (short-story anthologies).

Whatever you choose to call the finished product, thanks tons for all your extra work.

At this point, I'm interested in finding the best proofread and least compromised versions of stories by Lovecraft. I'm less concerned with completism than whether someone took the time to make certain the text was correct -- down to fixing every scan error and reproducing idiosyncratic punctuation.