Publisher's Synopsis
The Essential Horror of H P Lovecraft
The Short Horror Stories of HP Lovecraft
By HP Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 - March 15, 1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, he is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre. Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island, where he spent most of his life. Among his most celebrated tales are "The Call of Cthulhu," canonical to the Cthulhu Mythos. Never able to support himself from earnings as author and editor, Lovecraft saw commercial success increasingly elude him in this latter period, partly because he lacked the confidence and drive to promote himself. He subsisted in progressively straitened circumstances in his last years; an inheritance was completely spent by the time he died at the age of 46.
CONTENTS
The Alchemist
The Beast in the Cave
Beyond the Wall of Sleep
The Cats of Ulthar
Celephais
The Crawling Chaos
Dagon
The Doom That Came to Sarnath
Ex Oblivione
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and his Family
Herbert West: Reanimator
Hypnos
The Lurking Fear
Memory
The Music of Eric Zann
The Nameless City
Nyarlathotep
The Picture in the House
Poetry and the Gods
Polaris
The Statement of Randolph Carter
The Street
The Terrible Old Man
The Tomb
The Tree
What the Moon Brings
The White Ship
