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30 reviews
H. P. Lovecraft, John Jude Palencar, ...

Del Rey, 1996

DEL REY ANTHOLOGY OF LOVECRAFT'S BEST
This is an anthology of some of the best works of Howard Philips Lovecraft (HPL), a pulp horror- and science fiction- writer of the 1920s and 30s. Lovecraft had a distinctive style of writing, meant to convey through description an atmosphere of awe and wonder of the universe, which he believed a rational mind would experience as horror. His works have influenced generations of writers ...

At the Mountains of Madness and Other Macabre Tales

21 reviews
H. P. Lovecraft

Arkham House Publishers Inc., 1985

About this edition . . . .
I will not try to write a complete review, since I see that there are already 17 reviews available here, several of fine quality. This edition is of great interest because it issues from Arkham House. Arkham House publishing was founded by August Derleth, a protege of H.P. Lovecraft who himself wrote a rather large volume of pastiche material using the Cthulhu mythos of Lovecraft. One motive ...

Dreams of Terror and Death: The Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft

26 reviews
H. P. Lovecraft

Del Rey, 1995

Extraordinary images, delicious writing
These days i find myself sadly jaded. I pick up books, read partway through, and lose interest... either because the plot is too predictable (been there, read that, know what's going to happen) or because the writing is mediocre. I find that good writing is increasingly important to me as I get older. So, a couple of years back when I picked up this collection in a bookstore and started to ...

H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (Library of America)

39 reviews
H. P. Lovecraft

Library of America, 2005

A very impressive one volume collection
H.P. Lovecraft is one of the few authors to whom I return over and over again. Having read and re-read his stories over the past decade, they continue to terrify and have lost none of their original, haunting power. Deeply imaginative and profoundly pessimistic, Lovecraft's fictional world was stalked by zombies, monsters, evil cults, cannibals, grave robbers, lunatics, and countless other seen ...

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos

22 reviews
H. P. Lovecraft

Del Rey, 1998

J.K. Potter's Illustrations Are Rich (Eldritch)
Well done thou good and faithful servants. Especially you J.K. Potter! Much has been said about the stories and deservedly so, but Potter's "photos" of Lovecraftian creatures are also well worth mentioning.

Dagon and Other Macabre Tales

6 reviews
H. P. Lovecraft, T. E. Klein, ...

Arkham House Publishers, 1986

The Lovecraft Experience
In my humble opinion, there are two ways to read Lovecraft. The first, and best, is to get your hands on an original "Wierd Tales" or other pulp. There is something about the musty smell that adds to the tale. For true conisours, read them under the covers with a flashlight, late in the evening hours. Realizing that original pulps may be prohibitively expensive, the Arkham House Editions are ...

The Call of Cthulhu (Penguin Modern Classics)

39 reviews
H.P. Lovecraft

Penguin Classics, 2002

Free SF Reader
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. 4.5 out of 5

At the Mountains of Madness: And Other Tales of Terror

49 reviews
H. P. Lovecraft

Del Rey, 1991

One of the all-time classic novellas of eldritch horror
What can you say about one of the all-time classic horror novellas by one of the founding fathers of the Eldritch horror genre ? "At The Mountains of Madness" (henceforth ATMoM), was penned in 1931, and relates the disturbing tale of the ill-fated geological expedition, sent by Miskatonic University, to that most distant, inaccesible, and mysterious of all wastelands ... the frozen depths of ...

The Best of H.P. Lovecraft : Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre

135 reviews
H.P. Lovecraft

Del Rey, 1982

Best of Lovecraft
The title says it all. The best of his stories and if you're a fan of Lovecraft, this must be a part of your collection.

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

23 reviews
H. P. Lovecraft

Del Rey, 1986

The dream-key of H.P. Lovecraft
_This collection of stories are in my opinion the highest and best creation of Lovecraft's career. They are also the most personal. It is obvious that Randolph Carter is Lovecraft's alter-ego. These stories are the dream map of his life- the source of his inspiration. How many other authors have claimed that their best ideas came from "somewhere else"- often in dreams? _I would classify these ...

The Haunter of the Dark

3 reviews
H.P. Lovecraft

Oneiros Books, 1999

BEST GRAPHIC FORM LOVECRAFT EVER
Over the years I have come across many illustrated, comic book adaptations of Lovecraft works, and even more Lovecraft "inspired" creations. Most fall short in capturing the cosmic horror that is Lovecraft's trademark. There are two works, however, that succeed wildly in this endeavor. The absolute best, both artistically and horrificly, is John Coulthart's "The Haunter of the Dark : And Other ...

Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft (Gollancz SF)

6 reviews
H. P. Lovecraft

Gollancz, 2008

BEYOND THE WALL OF SANITY. 4 out of 5
"Stoop not down unto the darkly splendid world; Wherin continually lieth faithless depth, and hades wrapped in clouds, delighting in unintellible images, precipitous, winding, a black ever-rolling abyss; ever espousing a body unluminous, formless and void." -The Chaldean Oracles of Zoroaster. The description of this is wrong, and Amazon has not yet changed it. This book is 880 ...

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

32 reviews
H.P. Lovecraft

Creation Oneiros Books, 2008

Lovecraft at his best
Charles Dexter Ward is a young man in Providence, RI who is fascinated by antiquities --- too fascinated, perhaps. He becomes obsessed with an ancestor, an alleged warlock named Joseph Curwen who escaped persecution in Salem over 200 years before and fled to Providence. A unusually long-lived ancestor, I might add. If you aren't used to reading Lovecraft, or other writers of the same time ...

The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Classics)

8 reviews
H. P. Lovecraft

Penguin Classics, 2001

Penguin's Second Lovecraft Book
If you enjoyed the first book of Lovecraft's work published by Penguin (The Call of Cthulhu) then you will undoubtedly appreciate this one. As before, it is a nice mix of the three areas of Lovecraft's work: the dream cycle, the Cthulhu and the Great Old Ones cycle, and the macabre tales cycle. In this book you will find what I consider to be one of the best Lovecraft's story: At The ...

H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus Vol 1: "At the Mountains of Madness" and Other Novels of Terror

7 reviews
H.P. Lovecraft

Voyager, 1985

The master
This collection, the first of three volumes, may well represent the pinnacle of Lovecraft's creative genius. His knack for conjuring the most horrific and fantastical of atmospheres is unparalleled; these stories will have you shuddering with captivated horror at the incredible otherworldly landscapes and monstrosities leaping from their pages. Plagued with a great sensitivity to cold from a ...

The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Modern Classic)

2 reviews
H. P. Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi

Penguin Classics, 2005

Third Collection
Having read the two previous collections it was a logical step to go on and get the third (and apparently final)one. So what to expect with this book? Some really good stuff and some really bad stuff (my opinion). Various kinds of stories are gathered here, as was the case with the previous publications by Penguin; that is, there are some "macabre tales", "dreams and fantasies tales" and some ...

More Annotated H.P. Lovecraft

10 reviews
H. P. Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi, ...

Dell, 1999

The Contents of This Book
With so many different Lovecraft collections out there, it may help prospective buyers to know what's actually in this one: [By Peter Cannon:] Acknowledgments; Introduction [a discussion of H. P. Lovecraft and the selections in this volume]; [Hereupon stories by Lovecraft:] The Picture in the House; Herbert West--Reanimator [a collected pulp magazine serial]; The Hound; The Shunned House; The ...

A Collection of Lovecraft

Munsey's, 2008

Containing all the legally available titles by this spectacular author, and includes Dagon, Wall of Sleep, Picture in the House, and many more, over 30 stories.

A Collection of H.P. Lovecraft Short Stories

LeClue22, 2008

Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of ...

Great tales of terror and the supernatural

22 reviews
Edgar Allen Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, ...

Modern Library, 1944

Essential -- the roots of modern short horror fiction
This book is, quite simply, the best collection of 19th and early-20th century short fiction of the dark variety in existence. First published in the 1940s, this single (albeit fat) volume is a goldmine of the roots of modern horror, a great way to see where today's horror heavyweights got their inspiration and influence. Some authors whose stories appear within: Bierce, Blackwood, Dickens, ...

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