Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft
By (Author) H. P. Lovecraft
Random House USA Inc
Ballantine Books Inc.
1st October 1992
United States
General
Fiction
Anthologies: general
FIC
Paperback
432
Width 133mm, Height 209mm, Spine 23mm
329g
H.P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth centurys greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.Stephen King
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 is the collection that true fans of horror fiction must have: sixteen of H.P. Lovecrafts most horrifying visions, including:
The Call of Cthulu: The first story in the infamous Cthulhu mythosa creature spawned in the stars brings a menace of unimaginable evil to threaten all mankind.
The Dunwich Horror: An evil mans desire to perform an unspeakable ritual leads him in search of the fabled text of The Necronomicon.
The Colour Out of Space:A horror from the skiesfar worse than any nuclear fallouttransforms a man into a monster.
The Shadow Over Innsmouth:Rising from the depths of the sea, an unspeakable horror engulfs a quiet New England town.
Plus twelve more terrifying tales!
Almost completely ignored by the mainstream press during his lifetime, H. P. Lovecrafthas since come to be recognized as one of the greatest writers of classic horror, on a par with Edgar Allan Poe, Lovecraft's mentor. H. P. Lovecraft's work has been translated into more than a dozen languages, his tales adapted for film, television, and comic books, and he has been the subject of more scholarly study than any other writer of horror fiction save Poe.