



While Cthulhu has became a pop culture joke, the true power of H.P.’s work comes from his unnerving focus that the place of human beings in this wide, expansive universe we inhabit does not even warrant a single shred of consideration from the innumerable number of Old Gods and their unholy kith who reside just beyond our plain of insignificant existence.Ĭonjure up any contemporary horror author from Stephen King to Clive Barker and you will realise very quickly just how essential and instrumental Lovecraft has been in the realm of creative arts and sciences. By no means the only trailbazer in the genre it inhabits, there is no way of escaping Lovecraft or his dimensional bastard pantheon of children.

Lovecraftįor the short time I have spent on this planet made of unpredictable variables, I feel there are only four certain truths- birth, taxes, death and the Promethean, eldritch influence Howard Philips Lovecraft has had upon the art of literary horror. Necronomicon Commemorative Edition: The Best Weird Tales Of H.P. This book is absolutely amazing, filled to burst with most of Lovecrafts’ stories, well-known and otherwise with informative and insightful annotations which contextualises and deconstructs every tale in addition to an extensive listings of films and audio recordings of Lovecrafts’ stories, close to 300 illustrations found through the tome with various other bibs and bobs regarding the universe created by the man and of the man himself.Klinger with an introduction by Alan Moore. Lovecraft Edited With An Afterword By Stephen Jones Illustrated By Les Edwards. Hoffman Price) - At The Mountains Of Madness - The Shadow Over Innsmouth - The Shadow Out Of Time - The Haunter Of The Dark - The Thing On The Doorstep - The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward - The Dream-quest Of Unknown Kadath - To A Dreamer - Afterword: A Gentleman Of Providence / Stephen Jones. Night-gaunts - Dagon - The Statement Of Randolph Carter - The Doom That Came To Sarnath - The Cats Of Ulthar - The Nameless City - Herbert West - Reanimator - The Music Of Erich Zann - The Lurking Fear - The Hound - The Rats In The Walls - Under The Pyramids - The Unnamable - In The Vault - The Outsider - The Horror At Red Hook - The Colour Out Of Space - Pickman's Model - The Call Of Cthulhu - Cool Air - The Shunned House - The Silver Key - The Dunwich Horror - The Whisperer In Darkness - The Strange High House In The Mist - The Dreams In The Witch-house - From Beyond - Through The Gates Of The Silver Key (with E. This Tome Brings Together All Of Lovecraft's Harrowing Stories, Including The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Cycle, Just The Way They Were First Released. Lovecraft's Astonishing Tales Blend Elements Of Horror, Science Fiction, And Cosmic Terror That Are As Powerful Today As They Were When They Were First Published.
