Description
* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Lovecraft’s life and works
* Brief introduction to master short story writer
* Over 100 short stories, including rare collaborations
* Excellent formatting of the texts
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories
* Easily locate the tales you want to read
* A selection of some of Lovecraft’s greatest poetry
* Includes Lovecraft’s memoirs – a range of autobiographical writings collected form the author’s letters and journals
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
* UPDATED with a special Essays section, with 9 critical essays by Lovecraft, including the seminal work SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE
Please note: due to copyright restrictions, the short stories that Lovecraft wrote with C. M. Eddy, Jr. cannot appear in this collection.
CONTENTS:
H. P. Lovecraft: Brief Introduction
The Short Stories
The Little Glass Bottle
The Secret Cave
The Mystery of the Grave-Yard
The Mysterious Ship
The Beast in the Cave
The Alchemist
The Tomb
Dagon
A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson
Sweet Ermengarde
Polaris
The Green Meadow
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
Poetry and the Gods
Celephaïs
From Beyond
Nyarlathotep
The Picture in the House
The Crawling Chaos
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 Horror at Martin’s Beach
The Hound
The Lurking Fear
The Rats in the Walls
The Unnamable
The Festival
Under the Pyramids
The Shunned House
The Horror at Red Hook
He
In the Vault
The Descendant
Cool Air
The Call of Cthulhu
Two Black Bottles
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
The Thing in the Moonlight
The Last Test
The History of the Necronomicon
The Curse of Yig
Ibid
The Dunwich Horror
The Electric Executioner
The Mound
Medusa’s Coil
The Whisperer in Darkness
At the Mountains of Madness
The Shadow Over Innsmouth (Draft)
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Trap
The Dreams in the Witch House
The Man of Stone
The Horror in the Museum
Through the Gates of the Silver Key
Winged Death
Out of the Aeons
The Thing on the Doorstep
The Evil Clergyman
The Horror in the Burying-Ground
The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast
The Slaying of the Monster
The Book
The Tree on the Hill
The Battle that Ended the Century
The Shadow out of Time
Till A’ the Seas”
Collapsing Cosmoses
The Challenge from Beyond
The Disinterment
The Diary of Alonzo Typer
The Haunter of the Dark
In the Walls of Eryx
The Night Ocean
LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
The Poetry
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
Selected Essays
METRICAL REGULARITY
THE ALLOWABLE RHYME
THE DESPISED PASTORAL
AT THE ROOT
LITERARY COMPOSITION
SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE
CATS AND DOGS
A HISTORY OF THE NECRONOMICON
NOTES ON WRITING WEIRD FICTION
The Memoirs
LIST OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WORKS
