A definitive edition of stories by the master of supernatural fiction Howard Phillips Lovecraft's unique contribution to American literature was a melding of traditional supernaturalism (derived chiefly from Edgar Allan Poe) with the genre of science fiction that emerged in the early 1920s. This Penguin Classics edition brings together a dozen of the master's tales-from his early short stories "Under the Pyramids" (originally ghostwritten for Harry Houdini) and "The Music of Erich Zann" (which Lovecraft ranked second among his own favorites) through his more fully developed works, "The Dunwich Horror," The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and At the Mountains of Madness. ** The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories* * presents the definitive corrected texts of these works, along with Lovecraft critic and biographer S. T. Joshi's illuminating introduction and notes to each story. Contains the following tales: - The Tomb - Beyond the Wall of Sleep - The White Ship - The Temple - The Quest of Iranon - The Music of Erich Zann - Imprisoned with the Pharaohs aka Under the Pyramids - Pickman's Model - The Case of Charles Dexter Ward - The Dunwich Horror - At the Mountains of Madness - The Thing on the Doorstep

The weird fiction short stories of H.P. Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations. The eBook’s table of contents is listed below. It includes the year each story was written. The Tomb (1917) Dagon (1917) Polaris (1918) Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919) Memory (1919) Old Bugs (1919) The Transition of Juan Romero (1919) The White Ship (1919) The Doom That Came to Sarnath (1919) The Statement of Randolph Carter (1919) The Terrible Old Man (1920) The Tree (1920) The Cats of Ulthar (1920) The Temple (1920) Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1920) The Street (1920) Celephaïs (1920) From Beyond (1920) Nyarlathotep (1920) The Picture in the House (1920) Ex Oblivione (1921) The Nameless City (1921) The Quest of Iranon (1921) The Moon-Bog (1921) The Outsider (1921) The Other Gods (1921) The Music of Erich Zann (1921) Herbert West — Reanimator (1922) Hypnos (1922) What the Moon Brings (1922) Azathoth (1922) The Hound (1922) The Lurking Fear (1922) The Rats in the Walls (1923) The Unnamable (1923) The Festival (1923) The Shunned House (1924) The Horror at Red Hook (1925) He (1925) In the Vault (1925) The Descendant (1926) Cool Air (1926) The Call of Cthulhu (1926) Pickman’s Model (1926) The Silver Key (1926) The Strange High House in the Mist (1926) The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1927) The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927) The Colour Out of Space (1927) The Very Old Folk (1927) The Thing in the Moonlight (1927) The History of the Necronomicon (1927) Ibid (1928) The Dunwich Horror (1928) The Whisperer in Darkness (1930) At the Mountains of Madness (1931) The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1931) The Dreams in the Witch House (1932) The Thing on the Doorstep (1933) The Evil Clergyman (1933) The Book (1933) The Shadow out of Time (1934) The Haunter of the Dark (1935)

Fan-compiled eBook collection of (almost) all Lovecraft stories.

This is the collection that true fans of horror fiction have been waiting for: sixteen of H.P. Lovecraft's most horrifying visions, including Lovecraft's masterpiece, THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME--the shocking revelation of the mysterious forces that hold all mankind in their fearsome grip.

The Shunned House by H. P. Lovecraft

Originally written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and 1930s, H. P. Lovecraft's astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction, and cosmology that are as powerful today as they were when first published. This tome presents original versions of many of his most harrowing stories, including the complete Cthulhu Mythos cycle, in order of publication.

Collected in this volume are spine-tingling tales showing us that below the ground and at the top of mountain peaks lurk nameless gods and ghouls, powerful and horrific. In cemeteries and desert wastes and swampy bogs, the evidence of past civilizations remains waiting to be uncovered, ominously portending mankind s own inglorious future conclusion. Even more disconcerting in H. P. Lovecraft s fictional world is that one need not even leave home to come face-to-face with the cataclysmic revelation of man s insignificance. Monsters not only skulk in underground crypts and exotic foreign lands, but swarm all around us, just out of sight.Among the creepy tales included in this volume are He, The Moon-Bog, The Other Gods, Polaris. "

Fan-compiled eBook collection of (almost) all Lovecraft stories.

Voted one of the top ten Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2001 by *Cinescape Magazine.* "The Shadow out of Time" is H. P. Lovecraft's last major story. It was first published in Astounding Stories for June 1936. And yet, this text has never been published as Lovecraft wrote it--until now. The recent discovery of Lovecraft's handwritten manuscript allows readers to appreciate this magnificently cosmic story exactly as originally written. All previous editions of the story contain hundreds of serious errors, including errors in paragraphing, omissions and mistranscriptions of many words and passages, and erroneous punctuation. Leading Lovecraft scholars S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz have provided an exhaustive introduction and commentary on the story, elucidating names, places and other elements in this richly evocative story. A must for all devotees of Lovecraft and weird fiction!

*“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” –H. P. LOVECRAFT Welcome to the world of H. P. Lovecraft, the undisputed master of terror. His work has inspired countless nightmares, and this collection of some of his most chilling stories is likely to inspire even more. Cool Air–An icy apartment hides secrets no man dares unlock. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward–Ward delves into the black arts and resurrects the darkest evil from beyond the grave. The Terrible Old Man–The intruders seek a fortune but find only death. Herbert West–Reanimator–Mad experiments yield hideous results in this bloodcurdling tale, the inspiration for the cult film Re-Animator. The Shadow Over Innsmouth–A small fishing town’s population is obscenely corrupted by a race of fiendish undersea creatures. The Lurking Fear–An upstate New York clan degenerates into thunder-crazed mole like creatures with a taste for human flesh. PLUS TEN OTHER SPINE-TINGLING TALES From the Paperback edition.

Hours of great reading await, with tales from some of the 20th century's most renowned horror and dark fantasy authors. Included are:DAGON, by H.P. LovecraftTHE CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT, by Robert E. HowardMOTHER OF PEARL, by Fitz-James O'BrienTHE WALKING DEAD, by E. Hoffmann PriceSOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO SHOUT ABOUT IT, by Darrell SchweitzerTHE STORY OF MING-Y, by Lafcadio HearnBY MOONLIGHT, by John Gregory BetancourtTHE GATEWAY OF THE MONSTER, by William Hope HodgsonCANON ALBERIC'S SCRAP-BOOK, by M.R. JamesDRACULA'S GUEST, by Bram StokerTHE MAN WHO FOUND OUT, by Algernon BlackwoodPHANTAS, by Oliver OnionsFEAR, by Achmed AbdullahLUCIFER, by John D. SwainPENNIES FROM HELL, by Darrell SchweitzerTHE HOUND, by H. P. LovecraftTHE DUKE OF DEMOLITION GOES TO HELL, by John Gregory BetancourtJUKE-BOX, by Henry KuttnerTHE MUMMY'S FOOT, by Theophile GautierPIT OF MADNESS, by E. Hoffmann Price...

Following the phenomenal success of Necronomicon, its companion volume brings together Lovecraft’s remaining major stories plus his weird poetry, a number of obscure revisions, and some notable nonfiction, including the seminal critical essay Supernatural Horror in Literature Gathering together in chronological order the rest of Lovecraft's rarely seen but extraordinary short fiction, this collection includes the entirety of the long-out-of-print collection of 36 sonnets "Fungi from Yoggoth." Howard Phillips Lovecraft died at the age of 47, but in his short life he turned out dozens of stories which changed the face of horror. His extraordinary imagination spawned both the Elder God Cthulhu and his eldritch cohorts, and the strangely compelling town of Innsmouth, all of which feature within these pages. Stephen Jones, one of the world's foremost editors of dark fiction, will complete the Lovecraft story in his extensive afterword, and award-winning artist Les Edwards will provide numerous illustrations for this must-have collection.

Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft, the Commemorative Edition, as published by Hachette Littlehampton, in 2008. A competently assembled anthology of H.P. Lovecraft's fiction, this will serve as a good introduction to his literary work.  

Deadly forces are about to be awakened �In the degenerate, unliked backwater of Dunwich, Wilbur Whately, a most unusual child, is born. Of unnatural parentage, he grows at an uncanny pace to an unsettling height, but the boy�s arrival simply precedes that of a true horror: one of the Old Ones, that forces the people of the town to hole up by night, fearful for their lives, by day able only to trace the wreckage wrought by the gigantic, unseen monster.In this and other tales of the macabre, H. P. Lovecraft weaves unearthly fantasies of creatures beyond conception � existing between the spaces of the dimensions we know.

A Randy Carter story.Randy Carter and old and now very strange friend Richelle Pickman undergo a phantasmagoric odyssey into the realm of nightstallions and the Elder Ones. In a battle between ghasts and nightgaunts, can anyone but the Creeping Chaos emerge the victor? A Gender Switch Adventure.Rid is not your average thief, he was once a proud and arrogant prince of a nation called Rogue. However, Rid lost everything he held dear when his step brother framed him for a heinous crime, causing him to get banished far away into the outside cruel world. Thanks to two new friends he makes on the way, he learns to become deceitful, lying, dirty minded, and cunning as a way to survive his new environment. On a fateful day, the three ambush a merchant caravan carrying three sacred and powerful weapons, only to fall into a dangerous trap. Rid’s friends get captured by an evil tyrant woman named Katarina Fox and he must venture into oblivion to rescue them. Legions among legions of terrible monsters, evil humans, and treacherous cities await him, threatening to engulf him completely. Despite his many flaws, destiny has chosen him to be the one to shed light into his dark and madness consumed world.

This is the (more of less) complete public domain collaborative works of H. P. Lovecraft.

This volume collects, for the first time, the entire Dream Cycle created by H. P. Lovecraft, the master of twentieth-century horror, including some of his most fantastic tales:THE DOOM THAT CAME TO SARNATH--Hate, genocide, and a deadly curse.THE NAMELESS CITY--Death lies beneath the shifting sands, in a story linking the Dream Cycle with the legendary Cthulhu Mythos.THE CATS OF ULTHAR--In Ulthar, no man may kill a cat...and woe unto any who tries.THE DREAM QUEST OF UNKNOWN KADATH--The epic nightmare adventure with tendrils stretching throughout the entire Dream Cycle.AND TWENTY MORE TALES OF SURREAL TERROR

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."--H. P. LOVECRAFT, "Supernatural Horror in Literature"Howard Phillips Lovecraft forever changed the face of horror, fantasy, and science fiction with a remarkable series of stories as influential as the works of Poe, Tolkien, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. His chilling mythology established a gateway between the known universe and an ancient dimension of otherworldly terror, whose unspeakable denizens and monstrous landscapes--dread Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth, the Plateau of Leng, the Mountains of Madness--have earned him a permanent place in the history of the macabre. In Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, a pantheon of horror and fantasy's finest authors pay tribute to the master of the macabre with a collection of original stories set in the fearsome Lovecraft tradition: ̧ The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: The slumbering monster-gods return to the world of mortals. ̧ Notebook Found in a Deserted House by Robert Bloch: A lone farmboy chronicles his last stand against a hungering backwoods evil. ̧ Cold Print by Ramsey Campbell: An avid reader of forbidden books finds a treasure trove of deadly volumes--available for a bloodcurdling price. ̧ The Freshman by Philip José Farmer: A student of the black arts receives an education in horror at notorious Miskatonic University.PLUS EIGHTEEN MORE SPINE-TINGLING TALES!From the Trade Paperback edition.

H.P. Lovecraft: Great Tales of Horror features twenty of horror master H.P. Lovecraft's classic stories, among them some of the greatest works of horror fiction ever written, including: "The Rats in the Walls," "Pickman's Model," "The Colour out of Space," "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Dunwich Horror," "The Shadow over Innsmouth," "At the Mountains of Madness," "The Shadow out of Time," and "The Haunter of the Dark."

"The true weird tale has something more than a secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains. An atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; a hint of that most terrible conception of the human brain--a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those fixed laws of Nature which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons of unplumbed space." --H. P. LovecraftThis new collection features some of the greatest masters of extreme terror, among them Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Bram Stoker, and Henry James, and includes such classic works as Arthur Machen's "The White People," Algernon Blackwood's "The Willows," and of course Lovecraft's own weird and hideous "The Colour Out of Space."Contents:Edgar Allan Poe, "MS. Found in a Bottle"Bram Stoker, "The Squaw"Ambrose Bierce, "Moxon's Master"Ambrose Bierce, "The Damned Thing"Ambrose Bierce,...

“H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.” –Stephen King “Lovecraft’s fiction is one of the cornerstones of modern horror.” –Clive Barker Some tales in this collection were inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, others he revised, two he co-authored–but all bear the mark of the master of primordial terror. The Horror in the Museum–Locked up for the night, a man will discover the difference between waxen grotesqueries and the real thing.* *The Electric Executioner–Aboard a train, a traveler must match wits with a murderous madman. The Trap–This mirror wants a great deal more than your reflection. The Ghost-Eater–In an ancient woodland, the past comes to life with a bone-crunching vengeance. AND TWENTY MORE STORIES OF UNSPEAKABLE EVIL From the Trade Paperback edition.

The complete original short stories and novels/novellas of Howard Philips Lovecraft written between 1917 and 1935.

The thing came abruptly and unannounced; a demon, rat-like, scurrying from pits remote and unimaginable, a hellish panting and stifled grunting, and then from that opening beneath the chimney a burst of multitudinous and leprous life - a loathsome night-spawned flood of organic corruption more devastatingly hideous than the blackest conjurations of mortal madness and morbidity.'Only the expansive imagination of H.P. Lovecraft could conceive the delicious and spine-tingling horrors you will find within the pages of this unique collection. In addition to such classics as The Picture in the House, The Music of Erich Zann and The Rats in the Walls, this volume contains some fascinating rarities: examples of Lovecraft's earliest weird fiction and material unpublished during his lifetime.H.P. Lovecraft's creation of the Cthulhu Mythos has influenced many modern authors, and still remains at the forefront of supernatural literature.

From the Preface: The present volume is an attempt to bring serious critical scrutiny to bear on an author whose works in the field of fantasy horror, though they have enjoyed various kinds of popularity, have heretofore been afforded relatively little attention in the realm of literary criticism. H.P. Lovecraft was not only a writer of highly worthy and unique stories, novels, and poems; he was a philosopher of genuinely incisive perception, an essayist of much persuasive power, a literary critic, and an epistolarian whose equal is scarcely to be found. However, the present study shall, of necessity, focus on Lovecraft the writer of fiction as illuminated by his works, his self-criticism in his many letters, and the literary influences that helped shape him as a fantaisiste of the first water. Like Poe, Lovecraft is a deserving writer whose emergence as an accepted and admired artist has been slow in coming; but come it must. **Review ..."students of Lovecraft will find that Burleson's book offers them plenty of useful, well-documented material. Unlike many treatments of H. P. Lovecraft, this volume is less an attempt to make him into a literary titan than it is an honest effort to come to terms with the overall nature and relative importance of Lovecraft's fiction in a responsible way."-Modern Fiction Studies ?...students of Lovecraft will find that Burleson's book offers them plenty of useful, well-documented material. Unlike many treatments of H. P. Lovecraft, this volume is less an attempt to make him into a literary titan than it is an honest effort to come to terms with the overall nature and relative importance of Lovecraft's fiction in a responsible way.?-Modern Fiction Studies .,."students of Lovecraft will find that Burleson's book offers them plenty of useful, well-documented material. Unlike many treatments of H. P. Lovecraft, this volume is less an attempt to make him into a literary titan than it is an honest effort to come to terms with the overall nature and relative importance of Lovecraft's fiction in a responsible way."-Modern Fiction Studies About the Author rleson /f Donald /i R. 

In the thirty years since S. T. Joshi prepared revised editions of H. P. Lovecraft's stories for Arkham House, Joshi has continued to do research on the textual accuracy of Lovecraft's stories, and this comprehensive new edition is the result. For the first time, students and scholars of Lovecraft can see at a glance all the textual variants in all relevant appearances of a story-manuscript, first publication in magazines, and first book publications. The result is an illuminating record of the textual history of the tales, along with how Lovecraft significantly revised his stories after initial publication. The result is the definitive text of Lovecraft's fiction-an edition that supersedes all those that preceded it and should endure as the standard text of Lovecraft's stories for many years. In this first volume, Lovecraft's earliest stories are printed in chronological order by date of writing. Included are such early triumphs as -Dagon- and -The Outsider, - along with the many tales Lovecraft wrote under the inspiration of Lord Dunsany. The celebrated -Herbert West-Reanimator- and -The Rats in the Walls- show Lovecraft experimenting with longer narratives-a tendency that will culminate in the novelettes and novellas of his final decade of writing.

Descend into the nerve-shattering realm of America’s master of horror, H. P. Lovecraft–to a dank place where gloomy maelstroms await the unwary, where the unnatural is surpassed only by the unspeakable, and where all pleasure is perverse. Take a chance. . . . All you can lose is your sanity. The Doom That Came to Sarnath–The magnificent city had wealth beyond measure, but no riches could save it from a ghastly day of reckoning. The Shunned House–He vowed to rid the odious structure of the brooding horror that clung to it, but evil would not go gently. The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath–Desperate to understand his tormenting vision, one man begins a forbidden and nightmarish journey. The Tomb–The old Hyde family crypt held a gruesome attraction for a boy, until he communed with the dead and learned their secrets. The Shadow Out of Time–The quest to understand the devouring force that once possessed a scholar leads a man to the other side of the world, where all will be revealed in one hideous, unholy night. PLUS ELEVEN OTHER MACABRE TALES OF PURE TERROR From the Paperback edition.

With more than 100 movies based on his writing, H.P. Lovecraft ranks among the most adapted authors in history--along with Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King.  His unnervingly scary tales appeal to both diehard fans of horror and readers with mainstream tastes, and H.P. Lovecraft Goes to the Movies presents the very best of his filmed stories. Additionally, this unique collection provides an enlightening historical introduction, short headnotes for each story calling out interesting trivia, and an appendix with credits for each screen version. THE STORIES INCLUDE: "The Colour out of Space": filmed twice, once as a vehicle for Boris Karloff called Die, Monster, Die! "The Dunwich Horror," also filmed two times, once with Dean Stockwell "Pickman's Model" and "Cool Air": both for Rod Serling's Night Gallery TV program "The Call of Cthulhu," which laid the foundation for the Cthulhu Mythos

"The true weird tale has something more than a secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains. An atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; a hint of that most terrible conception of the human brain--a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those fixed laws of Nature which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons of unplumbed space." --H. P. LovecraftThis new collection features some of the greatest masters of extreme terror, among them Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Bram Stoker, and Henry James, and includes such classic works as Arthur Machen's "The White People," Algernon Blackwood's "The Willows," and of course Lovecraft's own weird and hideous "The Colour Out of Space."Contents:Edgar Allan Poe, "MS. Found in a Bottle"Bram Stoker, "The Squaw"Ambrose Bierce, "Moxon's Master"Ambrose Bierce, "The Damned Thing"Ambrose Bierce,...

One of the most influential practitioners of American horror, H.P. Lovecraft inspired the work of Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Clive Barker. As he perfected his mastery of the macabre, his works developed from seminal fragments into acknowledged masterpieces of terror. This volume traces his chilling career and includes: IMPRISONED WITH THE PHARAOHS--Houdini seeks to reveal the demons that inhabit the Egyptian night. AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS--An unsuspecting expedition uncovers a city of untold terror, buried beneath an Antarctic wasteland. Plus, for the first time in any Del Rey edition: HERBERT WEST: REANIMATOR--Mad experiments yield hideous results in this, the inspiration for the cult film Re-Animator. COOL AIR--An icy apartment hides secrets no man dares unlock. THE TERRIBLE OLD MAN--The intruders seek a fortune but find only death! AND TWENTY-FOUR MORE BLOOD-CHILLING TALES From the Trade Paperback edition.

(N.B.  this new edition has corrected the formatting issues that has been voiced by some Lovecraft fans...)  CONTENTS: The Nameless CityThe FestivalThe Colour out of SpaceThe Call of CthulhuThe Dunwich HorrorThe Whisperer in DarknessDreams in the Witch-houseThe Haunter of the DarkThe Shadow over InnsmouthThe Shadow out of TimeAt the Mountain of MadnessThe Case of Charles Dexter WardAzathothBeyond the Wall of SleepCelephaisCool AirDagonEx OblivioneFacts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His FamilyFrom BeyondHeHerbert West: ReanimatorHypnosImprisoned with the PharaohsIn the VaultMedusa's CoilMemoryNyarlathotepPickman's ModelPoetry of the GodsThe AlchemistThe Beast in the CaveThe BookThe Cats of UltharThe Crawling ChaosThe DescendantThe Doom That Came to SarnathThe Dream Quest of Unknown KadathThe Evil ClergymanThe Horror at Martin's BeachThe Horror at Red HookThe HoundThe Lurking FearThe Moon BogThe Music of Erich ZannThe Other GodsThe OutsiderThe Picture in the HouseThe Quest of IranonThe Rats in the WallsThe Shunned HouseThe Silver KeyThe Statement of Randolph CarterThe Strange High House in the MistThe StreetThe TempleThe Terrible Old ManThe Thing on the DoorstepThe TombThe Transition of Juan RomeroThe TreeThe UnnamableThe White ShipThrough the Gates of the Silver KeyWhat the Moon BringsPolarisThe Very Old Folk

Curated new collections. H.P. Lovecraft was the inventor of cosmic horror, of weird fiction and the Cthulhu mythology. His stories, incubated by a lonely and febrile childhood, found purchase in the fertile earth of pulp fiction where he inspired many other writers, from Robert E. Howard, to Robert Bloch and Clark Ashton Smith, many of whom also collaborated on the several short stories, some of which are also included here, in this special deluxe edition. This title, alongside H.G. Wells Short Stories, is a companion volume to our hugely successful Gothic Fantasy series of classic and modern writers.

"The true weird tale has something more than a secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains. An atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; a hint of that most terrible conception of the human brain--a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those fixed laws of Nature which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons of unplumbed space." --H. P. LovecraftThis new collection features some of the greatest masters of extreme terror, among them Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Bram Stoker, and Henry James, and includes such classic works as Arthur Machen's "The White People," Algernon Blackwood's "The Willows," and of course Lovecraft's own weird and hideous "The Colour Out of Space."Contents:Edgar Allan Poe, "MS. Found in a Bottle"Bram Stoker, "The Squaw"Ambrose Bierce, "Moxon's Master"Ambrose Bierce, "The Damned Thing"Ambrose Bierce,...

“Ruff renders a very high-concept, imaginary world with such vividness that you can’t help but feel it’s disturbingly real.”—Christopher Moore In this thrilling adventure, a blend of enthralling historical fiction and fantastical horror, Matt Ruff returns to the world of Lovecraft Country and explores the meaning of death, the hold of the past on the present, and the power of hope in the face of uncertainty. Summer, 1957. Atticus Turner and his father, Montrose, travel to North Carolina, where they plan to mark the centennial of their ancestor’s escape from slavery by retracing the route he took into the Great Dismal Swamp. But an encounter with an old nemesis turns their historical reenactment into a real life-and-death pursuit. Back in Chicago, George Berry fights for his own life. Diagnosed with cancer, he strikes a devil’s bargain with the ghost of Hiram Winthrop, who promises a miracle cure—but to receive it, George will first have to bring Winthrop back from the dead. Meanwhile, fifteen-year-old Horace Berry, reeling from the killing of a close friend, joins his mother, Hippolyta, and her friend Letitia Dandridge on a research trip to Nevada for The Safe Negro Travel Guide. But Hippolyta has a secret—and far more dangerous—agenda that will take her and Horace to the far end of the universe and bring a new threat home to Letitia’s doorstep. Hippolyta isn’t the only one keeping secrets. Letitia’s sister, Ruby, has been leading a double life as her white alter ego, Hillary Hyde. Now, the supply of magic potion she needs to transform herself is nearly gone, and a surprise visitor throws her already tenuous situation into complete chaos. Yet these troubles are soon eclipsed by the return of Caleb Braithwhite. Stripped of his magic and banished from Chicago at the end of Lovecraft Country, he’s found a way back into power and is ready to pick up where he left off. But first he has a score to settle. . . . Review "Ruff’s sequel to 2016’s Lovecraft Country delivers another virtuoso blend of horror, action, and humor. . . . Fans will find this a worthy sequel." — Publishers Weekly “Another ‘only Matt Ruff could do this’ production. Lovecraft Country takes the unlikeliest of premises and spins it into a funny, fast, exciting and affecting read." — Neal Stephenson on LOVECRAFT COUNTRY “Lovecraft Country rubs the pervasive, eldritch dread of Lovecraft’s universe against the very real, historical dread of Jim Crow America and sparks fly. . . . Ruff renders a very high-concept, imaginary world with such vividness that you can’t help but feel it’s disturbingly real.” — Christopher Moore on LOVECRAFT COUNTRY “Nonstop adventure that includes time-shifting, shape-shifting, and Lovecraft-like horrors. . . . Ruff, a cult favorite for his mind-bending fiction, vividly portrays racism as a horror worse than anything conceived by Lovecraft in this provocative, chimerical novel.” — Booklist (starred review) on LOVECRAFT COUNTRY About the Author Matt Ruff is the author of the novels Lovecraft Country; The Mirage; Bad Monkeys; Set This House in Order; Fool on the Hill; and Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Works A Collection of 63 Novels And Short Stories compiled by fans of H.P. Lovecraft and released to the public in 2011. Released to the Public Domain under the Creative Commons license: CC BY 3.0 (US)

Proper young ladies in the 1920s don't get dirty, and they don't get into fights. But Colleen's uncle is killed, and she wants answers. When a sinister cult targets her, she pushes back - hard.Now she's running for her life. It will take all her courage, all her strength, and every steam-powered weapon she can devise to keep her alive long enough to unravel the mystery of her uncle's death.Proper young ladies in the 1920s don't get dirty, and they certainly don't get into fights. But Colleen's favorite uncle has died under mysterious circumstances, and she wants answers. When a sinister cult comes after her, she pushes back - hard.Soon she's running for her life, hunted by the cult of Katharis and aided by a secret government agency. It will take all of her courage, all of her strength, and every steam-powered weapon she can devise to keep her alive long enough to unravel the mystery of her uncle's death.The cult thinks she knows her uncle's secrets. They'll do anything, hurt anyone, to make her talk. But they've made a grave mistake. Colleen is going to take the fight to them, again and again, until the people she cares about are safe - or have been avenged.Book 1 of the Gears of a Mad God series.

He is not to open the door which leads to the strange time and place, nor to invite Him Who lurks at the threshold ..." went the warning in the old family manuscript that Ambrose Dewart discovered when he returned to his ancestral home in the deep woods of rural Massachusetts. Dewart's investigations into his family's sinister past eventually lead to the unspeakable revelations of The Great Old Ones who wait on the boundaries of space and time for someone to summon them to earth. Acclaimed cult horror writer H.P. Lovecraft's notes and outlines for this tale of uncanny terror were completed by August Derleth, his friend and future publisher. Of the many Lovecraft-Derleth "posthumous collaborations," The Lurker at the Threshold remains the most popular, having sold 50,000 copies in its previous edition alone. **

"The true weird tale has something more than a secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains. An atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; a hint of that most terrible conception of the human brain--a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those fixed laws of Nature which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons of unplumbed space." --H. P. LovecraftThis new collection features some of the greatest masters of extreme terror, among them Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Bram Stoker, and Henry James, and includes such classic works as Arthur Machen's "The White People," Algernon Blackwood's "The Willows," and of course Lovecraft's own weird and hideous "The Colour Out of Space."Contents:Edgar Allan Poe, "MS. Found in a Bottle"Bram Stoker, "The Squaw"Ambrose Bierce, "Moxon's Master"Ambrose Bierce, "The Damned Thing"Ambrose Bierce,...

This volume assembles no less than 40 stories set in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Ranging from Lovecraft's own tales (including classics such as the novel "At the Mountains of Madness," "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," and "The Colour Out of Space") to works by his friends and contemporaries (Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, and Robert Bloch), to later followers (Henry Kuttner, Lin Carter, Brian McNaughton), and contemporary afficianados (Brian Stableford, Mark McLaughlin, Adrian Cole) — and many more. This is one collection no Lovecraft fan can afford to miss!Included are:"At the Mountains of Madness," by H. P. Lovecraft"The Events at Poroth Farm," by T.E.D. Klein"The Return of the Sorcerer, by Clark Ashton...

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." ~ H.P. Lovecraft This collection includes 160 of H.P. Lovecraft's works. The collection is grouped by Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborative Works, Poetry and Essays. The groups are organized in chronological order, by the date that each work was written.

He is not to open the door which leads to the strange time and place, nor to invite Him Who lurks at the threshold ..." went the warning in the old family manuscript that Ambrose Dewart discovered when he returned to his ancestral home in the deep woods of rural Massachusetts. Dewart's investigations into his family's sinister past eventually lead to the unspeakable revelations of The Great Old Ones who wait on the boundaries of space and time for someone to summon them to earth. Acclaimed cult horror writer H. P. Lovecraft's notes and outlines for this tale of uncanny terror were completed by August Derleth, his friend and future publisher. Of the many Lovecraft-Derleth "posthumous collaborations," The Lurker at the Threshold remains the most popular, having sold 50,000 copies in its previous edition alone.Review"The twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale."

In the thirty years since S. T. Joshi prepared revised editions of H. P. Lovecraft's stories for Arkham House, Joshi has continued to do research on the textual accuracy of Lovecraft's stories, and this comprehensive new edition is the result. For the first time, students and scholars of Lovecraft can see at a glance all the textual variants in all relevant appearances of a story-manuscript, first publication in magazines, and first book publications. The result is an illuminating record of the textual history of the tales, along with how Lovecraft significantly revised his stories after initial publication. The result is the definitive text of Lovecraft's fiction-an edition that supersedes all those that preceded it and should endure as the standard text of Lovecraft's stories for many years. In this final volume, the tales of Lovecraft's final years are presented. The Antarctic novella At the Mountains of Madness is perhaps Lovecraft's most finished work, a superb fusion of weirdness and science fiction that he referred to as -cosmicism.- -The Shadow over Innsmouth- is a chilling evocation of the terrors inherent in a lonely New England backwater, while -The Thing on the Doorstep- and -The Haunter of the Dark- feature physical horrors with cosmic implications. -The Shadow out of Time- is the culmination of Lovecraft's portrayal of the vast vistas of space and time-his signature contribution to literature.

A collection of all H. P. Lovecraft's fiction in chronological order. The Little Glass Bottle • (1897) • shortstory The Secret Cave, or John Lees Adventure • (1898) • shortstory The Mystery of the Grave-Yard • (1898) • shortstory The Mysterious Ship (short version) • (1902) • shortfiction The Mysterious Ship (long version) • (1902) • shortfiction The Beast in the Cave • (1905) • shortstory The Alchemist • (1908) • shortstory The Tomb • (1917) • shortstory Dagon • (1917) • shortstory A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson • (1917) • shortfiction Sweet Ermengarde • (1917) • shortstory Polaris • (1918) • shortstory The Green Meadow • (1919) • shortstory with Winifred V. Jackson Beyond the Wall of Sleep • (1919) • shortstory Memory • (1919) • poem Old Bugs • (1919) • shortstory The Transition of Juan Romero • (1919) • shortstory The White Ship • (1919) • shortstory The Doom That Came to Sarnath • (1919) • shortstory The Statement of Randolph Carter • [Randolph Carter] • (1919) • shortstory The Terrible Old Man • (1920) • shortstory The Tree • (1920) • shortstory The Cats of Ulthar • (1920) • shortstory The Temple • (1920) • shortstory Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family • (1990) • shortstory The Street • (1920) • shortstory Poetry and the Gods • (1920) • shortstory with anna Helen Crofts Celephaïs • (1922) • shortstory From Beyond • (1920) • shortstory Nyarlathotep • (1920) • shortfiction The Picture in the House • (1920) • shortstory The Crawling Chaos • (1920) • shortstory with Winifred V. Jackson Ex Oblivione • (1921) • poem The Nameless City • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1921) • shortstory The Quest of Iranon • (1921) • shortstory The Moon-Bog • (1921) • shortstory The Outsider • (1921) • shortstory The Other Gods • (1921) • shortstory The Music of Erich Zann • (1921) • shortstory Herbert West—Reanimator • [Herbert West: Reanimator Universe] • (1921) • novelette Hypnos • (1922) • shortstory What the Moon Brings • (1922) • poem Azathoth • (1922) • shortstory The Horror at Martin's Beach • (1922) • shortstory with Sonia H. Greene The Hound • (1922) • shortstory The Lurking Fear • (1922) • shortstory The Rats in the Walls • (1923) • novelette The Unnamable • [Randolph Carter] • (1923) • shortstory Ashes • (1923) • shortstory with C. M. Eddy, Jr. The Ghost-Eater • (1923) • shortstory with C. M. Eddy, Jr. The Loved Dead • (1923) • shortstory with C. M. Eddy, Jr. The Festival • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1923) • shortstory Deaf, Dumb and Blind • (1924) • shortstory with C. M. Eddy, Jr. Under the Pyramids • (1924) • novelette with Harry Houdini The Shunned House • (1924) • novelette The Horror at Red Hook • (1925) • novelette He • (1925) • shortstory In the Vault • (1925) • shortstory The Descendant • (1926) • shortstory Cool Air • (1926) • shortstory The Call of Cthulhu • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1926) • novelette Two Black Bottles • (1926) • shortstory with Wilfred Blanch Talman Pickman's Model • (1926) • shortstory The Silver Key • [Randolph Carter] • (1926) • shortstory The Strange High House in the Mist • (1926) • shortstory The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath • [Randolph Carter] • (1926) • novella The Case of Charles Dexter Ward • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1927) • novel The Colour Out of Space • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1927) • novelette The Very Old Folk • (1927) • shortstory The Thing in the Moonlight • (1927) • shortstory The Last Test • (1927) • novella with Adolphe de Castro History of the Necronomicon • (1938) • shortfiction The Curse of Yig • (1928) • shortstory with Zealia Bishop Ibid • (1928) • shortstory The Dunwich Horror • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1928) • novelette The Electric Executioner • (1929) • novelette with Adolphe de Castro The Mound • (1929) • novelette with Zealia Bishop Medusa's Coil • (1930) • novelette with Zealia Bishop The Whisperer in Darkness • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1930) • novella At the Mountains of Madness • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1931) • novel Discarded Draft of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" • (1931) • shortstory The Shadow Over Innsmouth • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1931) • novelette The Trap • (1931) • novelette with Henry S.Whitehead The Dreams in the Witch House • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1932) • novelette (variant of The Dreams in the Witch-House) The Man of Stone • (1932) • shortstory with Hazel Heald The Horror in the Museum • (1932) • novelette with Hazel Heald Through the Gates of the Silver Key • [Randolph Carter] • (1932) • novelette with E. Hoffmann Price Winged Death • (1933) • novelette with Hazel Heald Out of the Aeons • (1933) • novelette with Hazel Heald The Thing on the Doorstep • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1933) • novelette The Evil Clergyman • (1933) • shortstory The Horror in the Burying-Ground • (1933) • shortstory with Hazel Heald The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast • (1933) • shortstory with R. H. Barlow The Slaying of the Monster • (1933) • shortstory with R. H. Barlow The Book • (1933) • shortfiction The Tree on the Hill • (1934) • shortstory with Duane W. Rimel The Battle that Ended the Century • (1934) • shortstory with R. H. Barlow The Shadow Out of Time • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1934) • novella “Till A’ the Seas” • (1935) • shortstory with R. H. Barlow Collapsing Cosmoses • (1935) • shortstory with R. H. Barlow The Challenge from Beyond • (1935) • shortstory with C. L. Moore, A. Merritt, Robert E. Howard, and Frank Belknap Long The Disinterment • (1935) • shortstory with Duane W. Rimel The Diary of Alonzo Typer • (1935) • novelette with William Lumley The Haunter of the Dark • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1936) • novelette In the Walls of Eryx • (1936) • novelette with Kenneth Sterling The Night Ocean • (1936) • novelette with R. H. Barlow

Mrs. Bennet's marital schemes aren't the only horrors Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy face this season in Hertfordshire...After learning Netherfield is set to lease at last, Elizabeth Bennet ventures onto the shadowed estate for a glimpse of Longbourn's newest neighbors. There she finds herself confused by the eccentric Bingley sisters and drawn to the enigmatic Mr. Darcy.But the forbidding grounds whisper of mysteries as sinister as they are ancient. A web of growing madness draws Elizabeth closer to Netherfield and Mr. Darcy, a gentleman whose troubled past is tied to the awakening horror.Then Jane falls ill, and it becomes a race against time to save her soul from those who would devour our world.As Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy struggle to unravel Netherfield's secrets, they face monstrous creatures, gruesome rituals, and betrayals at every turn. Can their blossoming love turn the tide of darkness? And will any escape with life—or...

A definitive edition of stories by the master of supernatural fictionHoward Phillips Lovecraft's unique contribution to American literature was a melding of traditional supernaturalism (derived chiefly from Edgar Allan Poe) with the genre of science fiction that emerged in the early 1920s. This Penguin Classics edition brings together a dozen of the master's tales-from his early short stories "Under the Pyramids" (originally ghostwritten for Harry Houdini) and "The Music of Erich Zann" (which Lovecraft ranked second among his own favorites) through his more fully developed works, "The Dunwich Horror," The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and At the Mountains of Madness.The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories presents the definitive corrected texts of these works, along with Lovecraft critic and biographer S. T. Joshi's illuminating introduction and notes to each story.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading...

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

Best-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq pays tribute to the master of horror, H. P. LovecraftPart biographical sketch, part pronouncement on existence and literature, the best-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq's H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, was published in France in 1991 and is the first non-fiction text ever published by the author. Here, France's most famous contemporary author praises his prewar American alter ego's style, which couldn't be less like his own. With a foreword by Lovecraft admirer Stephen King, this eloquently translated edition is an insightful introduction to both Lovecraft's dark mythology and Houellebecq's deadpan prose.

“Readers who know Lovecraft’s legacy mostly through turgid and tentacled Cthulhu Mythos pastiches will find this book a treasure trove of literary terrors.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)   Here are nineteen Lovecraftian stories—both new and rediscovered—that take their cues from the mythos of the iconic horror writer. Today’s masters of supernatural thrills celebrate H. P. Lovecraft’s oeuvre with tales of weird fiction and cosmic horror, collected by Hugo and Bram Stoker Award–winning editor Ellen Datlow.   In “Commencement” by Joyce Carol Oates, a university begins its annual ceremony of renewal with three renowned scholars whose lifetime achievements are fodder for the student body. A couple desperate to have another child turn to the darkest rituals of folklore and mythology in “Catch Hell” by Laird Barron. And Holly Phillips’s...

The Shadow over Innsmouth is a horror novella by H. P. Lovecraft, written in November–December 1931. It forms part of the Cthulhu Mythos, using its motif of a malign undersea civilization. It references several shared elements of the Mythos, including place-names, mythical creatures and invocations. The narrator is a student on an antiquarian tour of New England. He sees a piece of exotic jewelry in a museum, and learns that its source is the nearby decrepit seaport of Innsmouth. He travels to Innsmouth and observes disturbing events and people. It is the only Lovecraft story which was published in book form during his lifetime. According to L Sprague de Camp, Lovecraft distrusted his ability to narrate action, and the story is unusual in that Lovecraft includes in chapter IV a sustained and effective piece of action writing.

A German U-boat embarks on a horrifying journey after one of its crew claims a strange souvenir in this tale by the author of "The Call of Cthulhu".During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British freighter. Karl Heinrich, Graf von Altberg-Ehrenstein, a lieutenant-commander in the Imperial German Navy, orders the ship to fire on the British survivors and their lifeboats before submerging. After the U-boat surfaces again, a dead sailor is found clinging to the deck with a mysterious ivory talisman in his pocket. Heinrich's second-in-command pockets the charm just before the body is thrown overboard. And thus begins the ship's journey into madness . . .

"Crypt Of Cosmic Carnage" collects over 50 classic works of weird fiction by the legendary H P Lovecraft, presenting a definitive anthology of his very best and most important writings. The book is arranged in three sections: 1. CTHULHU MYTHOS examines the key cosmic deities created by Lovecraft, with every story in which they appear or are referenced. Including Azathoth, Cthulhu, The Deep Ones, Nyarlathotep, Shub-Niggurath, Yog-Sothoth, plus black bible The Necronomicon. Stories include: “Azathoth” (1922), “Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath” (1927), “Dreams in the Witch-House” (1932), “Thing on the Doorstep” (1933), “Haunter of the Dark” (1935), “Call of Cthulhu” (1926), “Dunwich Horror” (1928), “Whisperer in Darkness” (1930), “At the Mountains of Madness” (1931), “Dagon” (1917), “Shadow over Innsmouth” (1931), “Nameless City” (1921), “The Hound” (1922), “History of the Necronomicon” (1927), “Nyarlathotep” (1920), “The...

In the thirty years since S. T. Joshi prepared revised editions of H. P. Lovecraft's stories for Arkham House, Joshi has continued to do research on the textual accuracy of Lovecraft's stories, and this comprehensive new edition is the result. For the first time, students and scholars of Lovecraft can see at a glance all the textual variants in all relevant appearances of a story-manuscript, first publication in magazines, and first book publications. The result is an illuminating record of the textual history of the tales, along with how Lovecraft significantly revised his stories after initial publication. The result is the definitive text of Lovecraft's fiction-an edition that supersedes all those that preceded it and should endure as the standard text of Lovecraft's stories for many years. In this second volume, the tales that Lovecraft wrote immediately after returning to his native Providence, R.I., from two years of -exile- in New York are presented. The landmark tale -The Call of Cthulhu- was only the tip of the iceberg of a flood of stories he wrote in 1926-27, which include the two short novels The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. -The Colour out of Space- is a pioneering tale that initiates Lovecraft's distinctive melding of horror and science fiction, while -The Dunwich Horror- and -The Whisperer in Darkness- are rich novellas simultaneously evoking terrors from outer space and the brooding darkness of the New England backwoods.

This is the (more of less) complete public domain collaborative works of H. P. Lovecraft.

At a gathering to decide the fate of Randolph Carter's estate which has been held in trust since his disappearance the mysterious Swami Chandraputra, who wears curious mittens and enveloping robes, tells Carter's acquaintances of his ultimate fate. He explains that the key took Carter to a type of higher dimension. There, Carter, on an ill-defined mission (or out of sheer curiosity), travelled strange sections of the cosmos by first meeting with 'Umr at-Tawil, a dangerous being warned of in the Necronomicon, saying those who deal with it never return

A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror in a Penguin Classics Deluxe edition with cover art by Travis LouieFrequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. S. T. Joshi, Lovecraft's preeminent interpreter, presents a selection of the master's fiction, from the early tales of nightmares and madness such as "The Outsider" to the overpowering cosmic terror of "The Call of Cthulhu." More than just a collection of terrifying tales, this volume reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonical - and visionary - American writer.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles,...

Christmas with the family takes a dark turn in this chilling short story by the acclaimed author of "The Call of Cthulhu".Beckoned by his family, a man travels to a snowy, seaside Massachusetts town to observe an ancient festival. His family has long celebrated it since the days when it was forbidden. But when he arrives, he notices something is off about this community . . . little details that just don't add up. What the man witnesses at his family's house does little to comfort him. Soon he is drawn into a world unlike any he has known, and its sights will haunt him for the rest of his life . . .

The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasy. Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, 22-year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George—publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide—and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite—heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus’s ancestors—they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours. At the manor, Atticus discovers his father in chains, held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawn—led by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Caleb—which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus. And his one hope of salvation may be the seed of his—and the whole Turner clan’s—destruction. A chimerical blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that stretches across time, touching diverse members of two black families, Lovecraft Country is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racism—the terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today.

"The Complete H.P. Lovecraft Collection," as published by Xist Publishing, IRVINE, CA, in 2014 Includes the Fiction, Poetry, Essays and some of the Letters (correspondence). ISBN 978-1-68195-738-8 Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes.

"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die." At the time of his death in 1937, American horror writer H.P. Lovecraft was virtually unknown. The power of his stories was too great to contain, however. As the decades slipped by, his dark visions laid down roots in the collective imagination of mankind, and they grew strong. Now Cthulhu is a name known to many and, deep under the seas, Lovecraft's greatest creation becomes restless... This volume brings together seventeen masterful tales of cosmic horror inspired by Lovecraft's work. In his fiction, humanity is a tiny, accidental drop of light and life in the endless darkness of an uncaring universe -– a darkness populated by vast, utterly alien horrors. Our continued survival relies upon our utter obscurity, something that every fresh scientific wonder threatens to shatter. The dazzling stories in Cthulhu Lives! show the disastrous folly of our arrogance. We think ourselves the first masters of Earth, and the greatest, and we are very badly mistaken on both counts. Inside these covers, you'll find a lovingly-curated collection of terrors and nightmares, of catastrophic encounters to wither the body and blight the soul. We humans are inquisitive beings, and there are far worse rewards for curiosity than mere death. The truth is indeed out there -– and it hungers.

The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft: a brand new anthology that collects the twelve principal deities of the Lovecraftian Mythos and sets them loose within its pages. Featuring the biggest names in horror and dark fantasy, including many New York Times bestsellers, full of original fiction and artwork, and individual commentary on each of the deities by Donald Tyson. Lovecraft's bestiary of gods has had a major influence on the horror scene from the time these sacred names were first evoked. Cthulhu, Azathoth, Nyarlathotep, Yog-Sothoth—this pantheon of the horrific calls to mind the very worst of cosmic nightmares and the very darkest signs of human nature. The Gods of H.P. Lovecraft brings together twelve all-new Mythos tales.

H. P. Lovecraft's stories are a natural outgrowth of the Gothic movement that began in the late 18th century and culminated in the work of Edgar Allan Poe. Such motifs as the quest for eternal life, the haunted castle, and the mystic power of incantations are found throughout Lovecraft's fiction, however much they may be modified by his dynamic Cthulhu Mythos and his later trend toward science fiction. In this all-new anthology, some of the leading contemporary writers of weird fiction reinterpret Gothic themes through a Lovecraftian lens, or draw out the Gothic implications of Lovecraft's own stories. John Shirley's "The Rime of the Cosmic Mariner" is narrated by the Romantic poet S. T. Coleridge as he encounters one of Lovecraft's most baleful gods. Caitlín R. Kiernan, in "As Red as Red," writes a terrifying pendant to the vampire theme as found in Lovecraft's "The Shunned House." Jonathan Thomas, in "Old Goodman Brown," rewrites Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic tale in a flawless recreation of 17th-century prose. Donald Tyson does the same in his powerfully cosmic rewriting of Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher." Nancy Kilpatrick's "Always a Castle?" takes us to England, where a hapless protagonist encounters Lovecraftian monsters. Donald R. Burleson and Mollie L. Burleson revise KING LEAR and A CHRISTMAS CAROL in a Lovecraftian vein, while Lois H. Gresh's tale shows how Lovecraftian entities were present during the worst days of the Inquisition. These and other tales show how old-time Gothic themes can be revivified by contemporary writers when they are mingled with the unique perspective of H. P. Lovecraft's imaginative vision.

"The true weird tale has something more than a secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains. An atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; a hint of that most terrible conception of the human brain--a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those fixed laws of Nature which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons of unplumbed space." --H. P. LovecraftThis new collection features some of the greatest masters of extreme terror, among them Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Bram Stoker, and Henry James, and includes such classic works as Arthur Machen's "The White People," Algernon Blackwood's "The Willows," and of course Lovecraft's own weird and hideous "The Colour Out of Space."Contents:Edgar Allan Poe, "MS. Found in a Bottle"Bram Stoker, "The Squaw"Ambrose Bierce, "Moxon's Master"Ambrose Bierce, "The Damned Thing"Ambrose Bierce,...

fter reading Lovecraft's juvenilia in 1917, W. Paul Cook, editor of the amateur press journal The Vagrant, encouraged Lovecraft to resume writing fiction. That summer, Lovecraft wrote two stories: "The Tomb" and "Dagon". The story was inspired in part by a dream he had. "I dreamed that whole hideous crawl, and can yet feel the ooze sucking me down!" he later wrote. Critic William Fulwiler indicates that Lovecraft may have been influenced by Irvin S. Cobb's "Fishhead", a story about a strange fish-like human. Fulwiler has also suggested that Lovecraft took the story's theme of "an ancient prehuman race that will someday rise to conquer humanity" from Edgar Rice Burroughs' At the Earth's Core (1914). The story mentions Piltdown Man, which had not been exposed by the scientific community as a fraud and hoax at the time of writing.

38 year old Linda has never had any interest in women. That is until one night when she and a friend unknowingly visited a club just for women. After watching the women dance seductively, Linda realizes she is becoming aroused and decides to stay. Things get even hotter for her when she enters the bathroom to see two women making out in the bathroom. That was six months ago, and all Linda has been doing is dreaming of and fantasizing about being with a beautiful woman. But she's nervous and has no idea how to get started, so her fantasies have remained just that, and her frustration with herself is mounting. The closest Linda has allowed herself to get is her weekly massages where she lays there reveling in the touch of her sexy masseuse, Paula. Linda feels that since she's married, Paula is a 'safe' fantasy, and even occasionally flirts with her. What Linda is about to find out is that Paula, her safe fantasy, has some secrets of her own and is about to introduce Linda to what...

"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die." At the time of his death in 1937, American horror writer H.P. Lovecraft was virtually unknown. The power of his stories was too great to contain, however. As the decades slipped by, his dark visions laid down roots in the collective imagination of mankind, and they grew strong. Now Cthulhu is a name known to many and, deep under the seas, Lovecraft's greatest creation becomes restless... This volume brings together seventeen masterful tales of cosmic horror inspired by Lovecraft's work. In his fiction, humanity is a tiny, accidental drop of light and life in the endless darkness of an uncaring universe -– a darkness populated by vast, utterly alien horrors. Our continued survival relies upon our utter obscurity, something that every fresh scientific wonder threatens to shatter. The dazzling stories in Cthulhu Lives! show the disastrous folly of our arrogance. We think ourselves the first masters of Earth, and the greatest, and we are very badly mistaken on both counts. Inside these covers, you'll find a lovingly-curated collection of terrors and nightmares, of catastrophic encounters to wither the body and blight the soul. We humans are inquisitive beings, and there are far worse rewards for curiosity than mere death. The truth is indeed out there -– and it hungers.

S. T. Joshi s award-winning biography H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996) provided the most detailed portrait of the life, work, and thought of the dreamer from Providence ever published. But that edition was in fact abridged from Joshi s original manuscript, and this expanded and updated edition restores the 150,000 words that Joshi omitted and, in addition, updates the texts with new findings. Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born to a well-to-do family in Providence, Rhode Island. As a child, he revealed remarkable precocity in his early interests in literature and science. Ill-health dogged him in youth, rendering school attendance sporadic; and in 1908 he experienced a nervous breakdown that rendered him a virtual recluse for several years. In 1914 he discovered the world of amateur journalism and began slowly emerging from his hermitry. He wrote tremendous amounts of essays, poetry, and other work; in 1917, under the encouragement from W. Paul Cook and others, he resumed the writing of horror fiction, and his career as a dream-weaver began anew. In 1921 Lovecraft met his future wife, Sonia H. Greene, at an amateur journalism convention. It was at this time that he began expanding his horizons, both geographical and intellectual: he traveled widely, from New England to New York to Cleveland; and he absorbed such literary and intellectual influences as Lord Dunsany, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Machen. In 1924 he and Sonia decided to marry, and Lovecraft moved to New York to pursue his literary fortune. But, as the first volume of this biography concludes, his metropolitan adventure would be bittersweet at best. As the second volume of S. T. Joshi s comprehensive biography of H. P. Lovecraft begins, we find Lovecraft dwelling in misery in a one-room apartment in Brooklyn Heights: his wife, Sonia, has had to move to the Midwest for work, and he must rely on the companionship of the Kalem Club, the informal band of friends in the New York area. In 1926, in part through the intervention of his close friend Frank Belknap Long, Lovecraft finally decided to return to his native Providence, Rhode Island, effectively ending his marriage. That return spurred the greatest spurt of literary creativity he would ever experience: in less than a year, such works as "The Call of Cthulhu," The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and The Colour out of Space would emerge from his pen, establishing Lovecraft as the leading weird fictionist of his generation. In spite of his increasing poverty, antiquarian travel occupied much of Lovecraft s time, and he gained an impressive knowledge of such oases of antiquity as Charleston, Quebec, St. Augustine, and Richmond. These voyages both renewed his connection with the past and infused his literary work, as such later tales as The Whisperer in Darkness and The Shadow over Innsmouth drew ever more profoundly upon his far-flung travels. Intellectually, Lovecraft evolved as well. Recent developments in science confirmed his materialism and his atheism, and the onset of the Great Depression gradually caused him to reassess his political and economic theory; he emerged as a moderate socialist and advocate of the New Deal. Late in life he became a giant in the world of fantasy fandom a development that foreshadowed his worldwide fame in the decades following his early death.**

Collected in this volume are spine-tingling tales showing us that below the ground and at the top of mountain peaks lurk nameless gods and ghouls, powerful and horrific. In cemeteries and desert wastes and swampy bogs, the evidence of past civilizations remains waiting to be uncovered, ominously portending mankind's own inglorious future conclusion. Even more disconcerting in H. P. Lovecraft's fictional world is that one need not even leave home to come face-to-face with the cataclysmic revelation of man's insignificance. Monsters not only skulk in underground crypts and exotic foreign lands, but swarm all around us, just out of sight.Among the creepy tales included in this volume are "He," "The Moon-Bog," "The Other Gods," "Polaris."

Mama's boy. Paul's been hearing that for awhile now. Especially from his girlfriend Julie whenever he runs to his mother when she needs him.He also hears it from his alcoholic father every time Paul takes his mother's side. They act like Paul being close to his mother is a bad thing. Imagine if anyone,especially Paul's father, knew exactly how close to his mother Paul really is!