"Pleasure to me is wonder-the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability." Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. Lovecraft's major in...

"Pleasure to me is wonder-the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability." Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality. Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe. This 800-page jumbo book is the definitive collection for H.P. Lovecraft fans, containing his complete fiction as well as selected collaborations and essays. "That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die." Complete Fiction THE NAMELESS CITY

DAGON

THE CALL OF CTHULHU

AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

THE SHUNNED HOUSE

BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP

THE DUNWICH HORROR

THE ALCHEMIST

THE LURKING FEAR

MEMORY

AZATHOTH

THE MOON-BOG

THE BEAST IN THE CAVE

NYARLATHOTEP

THE MUSIC OF ERICH ZANN

THE BOOK

THE OTHER GODS

THE CASE OF CHARLES DEXTER WARD

THE OUTSIDER

THE CATS OF ULTHAR

PICKMAN'S MODEL

CELEPHAIS

THE PICTURE IN THE HOUSE

THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE

POLARIS

COOL AIR

THE QUEST OF IRANON

THE RATS IN THE WALLS

THE DESCENDANT

THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME

THE DOOM THAT CAME TO SARNATH

THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

THE DREAM QUEST OF UNKNOWN KADATH

DREAMS IN THE WITCH-HOUSE

THE SILVER KEY

THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER

THE EVIL CLERGYMAN

THE STRANGE HIGH HOUSE IN THE MIST

EX OBLIVIONE

THE STREET