P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the 20th century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.”—Stephen KingThe most important tales of the godfather of the modern horror genre—a master who influenced the works of a generation of writers including Stephen King and Anne Rice—are gathered in one volume by National Book Award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates.Combining the 19th-century gothic sensibility of Edgar Allan Poe with a daring internal vision, Lovecraft’s tales foretold a psychically troubled world to come. Set in a meticulously wrought, historically grounded New England landscape, his harrowing stories explore the collapse of sanity beneath the weight of chaotic events. Lovecraft’s universe is a frightening shadow world were reality and nightmare intertwine, and redemption can come only from below. For aficionados and a new generation of 21st-century readers , Tales of H. P. Lovecraft is a classic not to be missed.

    P. Lovecraft into calling him "perhaps unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living” or compel Fritz Lieber to employ the worthy term sui generis. Clark Ashton Smith—autodidact, prolific poet, amateur philosopher, bizarre sculptor, and unmatched storyteller—simply wrote like no one else, before or since. This new collection of his very best tales and poems is selected and introduced by supernatural literature scholar S. T. Joshi and allows readers to encounter Smith’s visionary brand of fantastical, phantasmagorical worlds, each one filled with invention, terror, and a superlative sense of metaphysical wonder.

    

    BousfieldThe Earlier Service by Margaret IrwinLazarus Returns by Guy EndoreBreakdown (1929) by L.A.G. StrongThe Man Who Liked Dickens (1933) by Evelyn WaughThe Open Door (1881) by Margaret Oliphant [as by Mrs. Oliphant]The Reptile (1926) by Augustus MuirThe Music on the Hill (1911) by SakiThe Canary (1931) by F. Tennyson JesseThe Great God Pan (1894) by Arthur Machen The Red Room (1896) by H.G. WellsThe Leech of Folkestone (1931) by R.H. BarhamSmee (1929) by A.M. BurrageOne Who Saw (1931) by A.M. BurrageThe Pipe-Smoker (1932) by Martin ArmstrongThe Angelus by William YoungerThe Case of M. Valdemar (1924) by Edgar Allan PoeEl Verdugo (1830) by Honoré de BalzacA la Tartare by E.M. WinchThe Ghoul (1916) by Hugh CliffordThe Dead Smile (1899) by F. Marion CrawfordArabesque: The Mouse (1920) by A.E. CoppardThe Last Chukka by Alec WaughMr. Meldrum's Mania (1931) by John MetcalfeA Terribly Strange Bed (1852) by Wilkie CollinsThe Hand (1919) by Theodore DreiserThe Bird (1916) by Thomas BurkeThe Treasure of Abbott Thomas by M.R. JamesAn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890) by Ambrose BierceThe Silver Mask (1932) by Hugh WalpoleThe Judge's House (1891) by Bram StokerThe Feet by Mark ChanningThe Call of the Hand (1919) by Louis GoldingThe House by Bernard BromageAll Hallows (1926) by Walter de la MareThe Price of the Head (1916) by John RussellThe Island of the Ud (1912) by William Hope HodgsonThe Whistling Room (1910) by William Hope HodgsonThe Derelict (1912) by William Hope HodgsonThe Snake (1933) by Dennis Wheatley