![]() In such later works as “The Call of Cthulhu,” “The Whisperer in Darkness,” Revulsion Lovecraft felt for New York City “Pickman’s Model” uncovers theįrightening secret behind an artist’s work “The Rats in the Walls” is a terrifyingĭescent into atavistic horror and “The Colour Out of Space” explores the eerie impact ofĪ meteorite on a remote Massachusetts valley. “The Horror at Red Hook” and “He” reveal the fascination and West-Reanimator,” and “The Lurking Fear” demonstrate Lovecraft’s uncannyĪbility to blur the distinction between reality and nightmare, sanity and madness, the human and “The Outsider,” “The Music of Erich Zann,” “Herbert ![]() This volume brings together 22 tales, the very best of his fiction. Intensely personal vision, cosmic in its ramifications and fearsome in its pessimistic view of Writing-Lovecraft adapted the conventions of horror stories and science fiction to express an The work that remained unpublished until after his death, including some of his best ![]() Published in such pulp magazines as Weird Tales and Astounding Stories-and in Oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” In the novellas and stories that he Phillips Lovecraft once wrote, “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the Edited and with notes by Peter Straub Dust Jacket TextĪ 20th-century successor to Edgar Allan Poe as the master of “weird fiction,” Howard ![]()
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