By H. P. Lovecraft

From the back cover

“If you look at the way critics describe Lovecraft . . . they often say he’s purple, overwritten, overblown, verbose, but it’s un-put-downable. There’s something about that kind of hallucinatory intense purple prose which completely breaches all rules of ‘good writing’, but is somehow utterly compulsive and affecting.”

—China Miéville, Science Fiction Studies


Since his stories began to appear in magazines such as Weird Tales in the 1920s and 30s, H.P. Lovecraft and his vivid imagination have been entertaining generations of readers with tales that both drew upon and pushed the boundaries of the genres of horror and science fiction.

Lovecraft’s influence has been immense: countless writers—from Stephen King to Neil Gaiman—and filmmakers such as Guillermo del Toro have acknowledged the way in which Lovecraft has inspired them.

Filled with suspense, amazing creatures and sensationally scary scenarios, this chronologically ordered collection of his short stories and novellas demonstrates the power of Lovecraft’s ability to thrill and entertain.

Contents

• Introduction by Paul Roland
• The Tomb
• Dagon
• A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson
• Sweet Ermengarde or, The Heart of a Country Girl
• Polaris
• Beyond the Wall of Sleep
• Memory
• Old Bugs
• The Transition of Juan Romero
• The White Ship
• The Doom That Came to Sarnath
• The Statement of Randolph Carter
• The Terrible Old Man
• The Tree
• The Cats of Ulthar
• The Temple
• Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
• The Street
• Celephaïs
• From Beyond
• Nyarlathotep
• The Picture in the House
• Ex Oblivione
• The Nameless City
• The Quest of Iranon
• The Moon-Bog
• The Outsider
• The Other Gods
• The Music of Erich Zann
• Herbert West—Reanimator
• Hypnos
• What the Moon Brings
• Azathoth
• The Hound
• The Lurking Fear
• The Rats in the Walls
• The Unnamable
• The Festival
• The Shunned House
• The Horror at Red Hook
• He
• In the Vault
• The Descendant
• Cool Air
• The Call of Cthulhu
• Pickman’s Model
• The Silver Key
• The Strange High House in the Mist
• The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
• The Colour out of Space
• The Very Old Folk
• History of the Necronomicon
• Ibid
• The Dunwich Horror
• The Whisperer in Darkness
• At the Mountains of Madness
• The Shadow over Innsmouth
• The Dreams in the Witch House
• The Thing on the Doorstep
• The Evil Clergyman
• The Book
• The Shadow out of Time
• The Haunter of the Dark

Bibliographic Information

The H. P. Lovecraft Collection: Classic Tales of Cosmic Horror. By H. P. Lovecraft. London, UK: Arcturus Publishing Limited; 2016; ISBN 978-1-78428-247-9; 928 pages; paperback.

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