The Great Old Ones: The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft - Softcover

Lovecraft, H. P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1979588155 ISBN 13: 9781979588157

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

Discover the collected works of H. P. Lovecraft, one of modern horror's founding fathers, the original master of the supernatural and macabre!

This wonderfully composed book contains the complete fiction collection of H. P. Lovecraft's writings. Also included are H. P. Lovecraft's collaborations with other writers of weird fiction.

Read The Great Old Ones and see why Lovecraft's writings have influenced almost every writer of horror, fantasy, and science fiction in the second half of the twentieth century. His work inspired such later luminaries as Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell, Bentley Little, Joe R. Lansdale, Alan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Thomas Ligotti, Caitlín R. Kiernan, William S. Burroughs, and Neil Gaiman. In his own time, Lovecraft also influenced a wide range of his peers including Robert Bloch (Psycho), Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard (Conan the Barbarian series).

Once you read his works, you will see why Stephen King called Lovecraft "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale."

The following novellas, stories, and works of short fiction are included in this massive book:

Notes on Writing Weird Fiction, The Alchemist, The Beast in the Cave, The Tomb, Dagon, Polaris, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, Memory, Old Bugs, The Little Glass Bottle, The Transition of Juan Romero, The White Ship, The Doom That Came to Sarnath, The Statement of Randolph Carter, The Terrible Old Man, The Tree, The Cats of Ulthar, The Temple, Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family, The Street, Celephaïs, From Beyond, Nyarlathotep, The Picture in the House, Ex Oblivione, The Mysterious Ship, The Mystery of the Grave-Yard or “A Dead Man’s Revenge”, The Nameless City, The Quest of Iranon, The Moon-Bog, The Outsider, The Other Gods, Pickman's Model, The Music of Erich Zann, Herbert West — Reanimator, Hypnos, What the Moon Brings, Azathoth, The Hound, The Lurking Fear, The Rats in the Walls, A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson, The Secret Cave, or John Lees Adventure, Sweet Ermengarde Or, the Heart of a Country Girl, The Unnamable, The Festival, The Shunned House, The Horror at Red Hook, He, In the Vault, The Descendant, Cool Air, The Call of Cthulhu, The Silver Key, The Strange High House in the Mist, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Colour Out of Space, The Very Old Folk, The Thing in the Moonlight, Ibid, The Dunwich Horror, The Whisperer in Darkness, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Thing on the Doorstep, The Evil Clergyman, The Book, The Shadow Out of Time, The Haunter of the Dark, The History of the Necronomicon, The Battle That Ended the Century, The Challenge from Beyond, Collapsing Cosmoses, The Crawling Chaos, The Curse of Yig, The Diary of Alonzo Typer, The Disinterment, The Electric Executioner, The Green Meadow, The Hoard of The Wizarrd-Beast, The Horror at Martin's Beach, The Horror in the Burying-Ground, The Horror in the Museum, In the Walls of Eryx, The Last Test, The Man of Stone, Medusa's Coil, The Mound, The Night Ocean, Out of the Aeons, Poetry and the Gods, The Slaying of the Monster, Through the Gates of the Silver Key, Till A' the Seas, The Trap, The Tree on the Hill, Two Black Bottles, Imprisoned with the Pharaohs, Winged Death

As an added bonus, this edition contains an illuminating introduction on weird fiction by the master himself entitled Notes on Writing Weird Fiction.

This digital edition includes a fully linked, interactive table of contents to help you find your favorite selections easily allowing you to revisit Lovecraft's engrossing works again and again.

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About the Author

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 - March 15, 1937) was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. He was virtually unknown and published only in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, but 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 Rats in the Walls", "The Call of Cthulhu", "At the Mountains of Madness" and "The Shadow Out of Time", all canonical to the Cthulhu Mythos. Lovecraft was never able to support himself from earnings as author and editor. He 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 strained circumstances in his last years; an inheritance was completely spent by the time that he died at age 46.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1979588155
• ISBN 13: 9781979588157
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 770