H.P. Lovecraft’s Book of Horror is a connoisseur’s collection of classic chillers that have withstood the test of time. Hand-picked by horror master H.P. Lovecraft in his landmark essay “Supernatural Horror in Literature,” these twenty-one masterpieces of the macabre rank among the best weird tales written in the last two centuries. The selections span the globe and express all of horror fiction’s most memorable themes. The cornucopia of terrors “The Fall of the House of Usher”—Edgar Allan Poe “The Body Snatcher”—Robert Louis Stevenson “The Horla”—Guy de Maupassant “The Damned Thing”—Ambrose Bierce “The Mark of the Beast”—Rudyard Kipling “The Great God Pan”—Arthur Machen “Count Magnus”—M.R. James Featuring irresistible storytelling and unspeakable scares, H.P. Lovecraft’s Book of Horror is your recommended reading list for the best—and darkest—in world literature.
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- Release Date 01/01/2008
- Authors H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen Jones, Dave Carson
- Language English
- Company Fall River Press; First Edition
- Weight 0.01 ounces
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