**The Essential Horror of H P Lovecraft **

**The Essential Horror of H P Lovecraft **

The Short Horror Stories of HP Lovecraft

By HP Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 - March 15, 1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, 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 Call of Cthulhu," canonical to the Cthulhu Mythos. Never able to support himself from earnings as author and editor, Lovecraft 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 straitened circumstances in his last years; an inheritance was completely spent by the time he died at the age of 46.

CONTENTS

The Alchemist

The Beast in the Cave

Beyond the Wall of Sleep

The Cats of Ulthar

Celephais

The Crawling Chaos

Dagon

The Doom That Came to Sarnath

Ex Oblivione

Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and his Family

Herbert West: Reanimator

Hypnos

The Lurking Fear

Memory

The Music of Eric Zann

The Nameless City

Nyarlathotep

The Picture in the House

Poetry and the Gods

Polaris

The Statement of Randolph Carter

The Street

The Terrible Old Man

The Tomb

The Tree

What the Moon Brings

The White Ship