This volume covers H.P. Lovecraft’s “apprentice years”: roughly the first half of his literary career, the half written before his return to Providence in 1926. Every story...

This volume contains the stories that nearly everyone agrees are the best work of H.P. Lovecraft’s life. Chronologically, it is the second book in a three-volume omnibus set...

Possibly the most widely known tale written by gothic horror writer H.P Lovecraft; the Call of Cthulhu is a short story published in 1928 about a young man who inherits a strange...

"The Statement of Randolph Carter" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December 1919, it was first published in The Vagrant, May 1920. It tells of a...

"From Beyond" is a short story by science fiction and horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. The story is told from the first person perspective of an unnamed narrator...

"The Beast in the Cave" follows a man who becomes lost in the enormous underground passages of Mammoth Cave during a guided tour. As his torchlight fades and the darkness closes...

In this witty early pastiche, Lovecraft adopts the voice of the eighteenth-century moralist Dr. Samuel Johnson, who claims to have survived far beyond his own century. Written in...

A nobleman living in a decaying feudal castle is haunted by an old family curse casted by a mysterious alchemist centuries before. All the men in the family line don't live past...

In "The Two Black Bottles," the narrator arrives in the eerie town of Daalbergen to claim the estate of his late uncle, Dominie Vanderhoof. Locals speak of strange behavior...

In this eerie tale presented as a found manuscript, the diary of occult investigator Alonzo Typer reveals his descent into madness after entering the cursed Van der Heyl mansion...