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The Shadow out of Time: The Corrected Text

6 reviews
H. P. Lovecraft

Hippocampus Press, 2001

A must-have for Lovecraft fans
"The Shadow Out of Time" is one of Lovecraft's finest tales, and this version is a collector-quality edition. The story itself is found in many Lovecraft anthologies, including an excellent presentation in Arkham House's "The Dunwich Horror and Others." However, there are many features that mark this volume as the definitive edition of "The Shadow Out of Time." The corrected text from a ...

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

32 reviews
H. P Lovecraft

Beagle Books, 1971

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 ...

Doom That Came Sarnath

8 reviews
H.P. Lovecraft

Del Rey, 1982

Lovecraft stories too often overlooked
This is a wonderful collection of some of Lovecraft's lesser known works, the majority of which come from his earlier writings. It is actually a pretty eclectic sampling of styles. One finds traditional horror, dream-enshrouded tales of unknown vistas, short "prose poems," collaborations with other writers, and even a science fiction story. While none of these stories can claim a place in the ...

Dancing with the Dark: True Encounters with the Paranormal by Masters of the Macabre

6 reviews
Stephen Jones

Running Press, 1999

A Good Compilation of Ghost Stories
Okay, so they spelled Stephen King's name wrong on the cover. So, what? If found this book fascinating and entertaining at the same time. It is filled with stories by famous authors, both past and present. The one that sticks out the most is Ramsey Campbell's "The Nearest to a Ghost." He goes to the cemetery to scatter his mother's ashes and feels a powerful sense of grief that isn't his ...

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 ...

Crawling Chaos

5 reviews
H. P. Lovecraft

Creation Books, 1997

A must for Lovecraft collectors
An excellent compilations of many of the short stories that did not make it into many of the mass market anthologies of recent years. Though yes, it also has a few of the old standbys like the Call of Cthulhu and At The Mountains of Madness. The small font and two-column layout means that there is a good deal more material in this book than the page count might tend to imply.

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 ...

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

40 reviews
H. P. Lovecraft

Library of America, 2005

Lovecraft's Tales
The Library of America has produced a handsome and affordable edition of a selection of H.P. Lovecraft's Tales chosen, edited and with notes by author Peter Straub. The twenty-two selections are from the years 1919 to 1935 and encompass the best of Lovecraft's extensive writings. In addition there is a chronology of the significant incidents of his life. The notes by Straub are detailed and are ...

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, ...

The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature

4 reviews
H. P. Lovecraft

Hippocampus, 2000

Another Lovecraft/Joshi must-have!
Finally, the long awaited annotated edition of HPL's essential essay of horror/weird fiction is here... The only flaw/drawback to this edition is the decision to keep all annotation notes in the back of the book unlike previous annotated Lovecraft works. Granted, having the annotations at the bottom of the revelant page did slow down a straight reading of only the text in the annotated story ...

Black seas of infinity: The best of H.P. Lovecraft

1 review
H. P Lovecraft

SFBC Science Fiction, 2001

Lovecraft
Heed the Call "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear..." H.P. Lovecraft A quiet, little hamlet that might be set down anywhere in New England, and call itself at home, but located in the rolling hills of north-central Pennsylvania. The man who rented me this house was accommodating enough, but there was something--reptilian about him, for lack of a better word. In fact, ...

The Complete H. P. LOVECRAFT Reader (68 Stories Included)

1 review

Oak Grove, 2007

Free SF Reader
A mindblowing blast of the horrors out of space, now here on earth, and other nastiness. Cthulhu lives. What if there were ominipotent superior alien beings in the depth of history. What happens if you encounter the remnants of their existence? Why would you want to? Even worse, what happens if they start to come back or idiots try to help them to do so. Lovecraft's ideas are everywhere ...

Horror Classics: Graphic Classics, Volume Ten (Graphic Classics (Eureka))

3 reviews
Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, ...

Eureka Productions, 2004

Mummies, Murder and Monkey's Paws
Horror has done well for the modern incarnation of the Graphic Classics, whose series has seen such luminaries as Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and HP Lovecraft brought to life by some extremely talented cartoonists. Whether it is the short-story nature, or the ready-made visually splendid imagery, there is something in the classic horror tales thats makes them well suited to the Graphic ...

Astounding Stories: The 60th Anniversary Collection

1 review
H.P.; Heinlein, Robert A.; De Camp, L. Sprague; Van Vogt, A.E.; Hamilton, Edmond; Leinster, Murray; Schachner, Nat; Campbell, John W., Jr (as Don A. Stuart) Lovecraft

The Easton Press, 1990

Absolute must-have for serious sf readers or collectors.
Astounding Stories was the highest quality "pulp" magazine ever published, thanks to intelligent editor John W. Campbell, Jr., who first discovered and published in these pages the best authors of the 20th century, including Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, AE Van Vogt, and others. In these 3 lush volumes Easton Press presents most of the best stories reprinted, for the first time ever, as they ...

Fantasy Classics: Graphic Classics Volume 15 (Graphic Classics (Graphic Novels))

3 reviews
Mary Shelley, H. P. Lovecraft, ...

Eureka Productions, 2008

Here there be Monsters and Wizards
Tom Pomplun and the Graphic Classics team just keep getting better. This latest release is another anthology collection, bringing us some of the more obscure tales from famous authors like L. Frank Baum, as well as the grand slam home run of Mary Shelley. I love these anthology collections the best, for the chance to be introduced to some new authors as well as seeing adaptations of some of my ...

Night Ocean

2 reviews
H. P. Lovecraft

Necronomicon Press, 1987

Let the darkness be your guide!
I am a huge fan of Lovecraft who himself was a fan of the true genuis; Poe. However Lovecraft has far exceeded the master in both sheer horror and prose, his stories are both terrifying and thought provoking. Anyone who is unaware of the work of H.P. Lovecraft is missing out on one of life's greatest joy's. Oh by the way, you must buy this book, Night Ocean only has 5 stories, but they are 5 ...

Selected Letters 1934-1937 (Selected Letters)

2 reviews
H. P. Lovecraft, August William Derleth

Arkham House Publishers, 1976

A Literary Treasurechest....
Fritz Leiber aptly dubbed H. P. Lovecraft "a literary Copernicus," for his liberating of Weird Literature from the thrall of hackneyed superstition. But Lovecraft clearly spent most of his time not writing fiction, or ghostwriting fiction for others, but rather corresponding with a huge list of faithful correspondents. Many of these correspondents would drop Lovecraft a letter consisting ...

The Cthulhu Cycle: Thirteen Tentacles of Terror (Call of Cthulhu Fiction)

2 reviews
Donald R. Burleson, Leonard Carpenter, ...

Chaosium, 1996

Attention Lovecraftian Horror Fans
This is the eleventh book in Chaosium's Cthulhu Cycle series. This volume features tales of Lovecraft's most well-known creation, the octopus-headed entity, Cthulhu. Included are the foundational stories (i.e. "The Call Of Cthulhu" by H.P. Lovecraft and "The Black Island" by August W. Derleth), some rare reprints (i.e. "Some Notes Concerning A Green Box" by Alan Dean Foster) and some ...

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

1 review
H. P. LOVECRAFT

Belmont Books B60-1069, 1969

"Obscure cosmic relationships and unnameable realities behind the protective illusions of common vision"
If you want really classic Lovecraft at the top of his form, then this novel is it. It is a good, tight, driven read- except for the extensive prose tour of his beloved old Providence near the beginning. Yet, even this detailed introduction helps to weave an unmatched atmosphere that draws you deeply into Lovecraft's world. This is an ode to Providence, and to those unobtrusive and unlikely ...

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

1 review
H. P. Lovecraft

Ballantine, 1970

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 ...

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