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The Whisperer in Darkness: Collected Stories Volume 1
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Include books by the same authorThe King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories
Robert W. Chambers · 287 pages
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales
H.P. Lovecraft, Kenneth Sterling, Anna Helen Crofts, T.E.D. Klein · 318 pages
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Vol 1
H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner
The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death
H.P. Lovecraft, E. Hoffmann Price · 387 pages
This volume collects, for the first time, the entire Dream Cycle created by H. P. Lovecraft, the master of twentieth-century horror.
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
Thomas Ligotti · 448 pages
Ligotti eschews cheap, gory thrills for his own brand of atmospheric horror, which shocks at the deepest, existential, levels. Ligotti's stories take on decaying cities and lurid dreamscapes in a style ranging from rich, ornamental prose to cold, clinical detachment. His raw and experimental work lays bare the unimportance of our world and the sickening madness of human consciousness. Like the gre
The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories
H.P. Lovecraft, John Glasby, T.E.D. Klein, Robert E. Howard, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith, Darrell Schweitzer, Michael R. Collings, Brian McNaughton, Robert Bloch, Stephen Mark Rainey, Jason Van Hollander, Henry Kuttner, Lin Carter, Robert M. Price, Adrian Cole, John P
The White People and Other Weird Stories
Arthur Machen · 377 pages
"Machen's weird tales of the creepy and fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics. With an introduction from S.T. Joshi, editor of AMERICAN SUPERNATURAL TALES, THE WHITE PEOPLE AND OTHER WEIRD STORIES is the perfect introduction to the father of weird fiction. The title story "The White People" is an exercise in the bizarre leaving the reader disoriented and on edge. From the first page, Machen t
Cthulhu 2000
Gahan Wilson, Bruce Sterling, T.E.D. Klein, Esther M. Friesner, Thomas Ligotti, James P. Blaylock, Gene Wolfe, Ramsey Campbell, Harlan Ellison, Roger Zelazny, F. Paul Wilson, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Basil Copper, Poppy Z. Brite, Fred Chappell, Michael Shea, Kim Newman, Joanna Russ · 416 pages
In Cthulhu 2000, a host of horror and fantasy's top authors captures the spirit of supreme supernatural storyteller H. P. Lovecraft--with eighteen chilling contemporary tales that would have made the master proud.- The Barrens by F. Paul Wilson: In a tangled wilderness, unearthly lights lead the way to a world no human was meant to see.- His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood by Poppy Z. Brite: Two dabb
The End of the Story
Clark Ashton Smith · 284 pages
None strikes the note of cosmic horror as well as Clark Ashton Smith. "In sheer daemonic strangeness and fertility of conception, Smith is perhaps unexcelled by any other writer." H. P. Lovecraft Clark Ashton Smith, considered one of the greatest contributors to seminal pulp magazines such as Weird Tales, helped define and shape "weird fiction" in the early twentieth century, alongside contempo
The Hastur Cycle
Ambrose Bierce, Robert W. Chambers, Karl Edward Wagner, James Blish, Arthur Machen, H.P. Lovecraft, Richard A. Lupoff, Ramsey Campbell, James Wade, August Derleth, Lin Carter · 320 pages
The Shuttered Room And Other Tales Of Horror
H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth · 205 pages
Occultation and Other Stories
Laird Barron · 245 pages
Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, building on the eldritch tradition pioneered by writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti. His stories have garnered critical acclaim and have been reprinted in numerous year’s best anthologies and nominated for multiple awards, including the Crawford, International Horror Gui
The Book of Cthulhu
Ross E. Lockhart · 529 pages
"The Cthulhu Mythos is one of the 20th century''s most singularly recognizable literary creations. Initially created by H. P. Lovecraft and a group of his amorphous contemporaries (the so-called "Lovecraft Circle"), The Cthulhu Mythos story cycle has taken on a convoluted, cyclopean life of its own. Some of the most prodigious writers of the 20th century, and some of the most astounding writers of
Black Wings of Cthulhu: Tales of Lovecraftian Horror
S.T. Joshi · 507 pages
Mysteries of the Worm: Twenty Cthulhu Mythos Tales by Robert Bloch
Robert Bloch · 296 pages
H.P. Lovecraft like his creation, Cthulhu never truly died. He and his influence live on, in the work of so many of us who were his friends and acolytes. Today we have reason for rejoycing in the widespread revival of his canon. If a volume such as this has any justification for its existence, it s because Lovecraft s readers continue to search out stories which reflect his contribution to the fie
The Book of Cthulhu II
Laird Barron, Molly Tanzer, Elizabeth Bear, Sarah Monette, John R. Fultz, Paul Tobin, William Browning Spencer, Kim Newman, Christopher Reynaga, Gord Sellar, Michael Chabon, Mark Samuels, Matt Wallace, Stanley C. Sargent, Orrin Grey, Karl Edward Wagner, Neil Gaiman, Cody Goodfellow, Caitlin R. Kiern · 426 pages
"When Night shade books unleashed The book of Cthulhu onto an unsuspecting world, it was critically acclaimed as "the ultimate Cthulhu anthology" and "a 'must read' for fans of Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos," The Book of Cthulhu went where no collection of mythos tales had gone before: to the very edge of madness... and beyond. For nearly a century, H. P. Lovecraft's tales of malevolent Great Old One
New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird
Caitlin R. Kiernan, China Mieville, Sarah Monette, Cherie Priest, Michael Marshall Smith, Charles Stross, David Barr Kirtley, Dale Bailey, Nathan Ballingrud, Laird Barron, Elizabeth Bear, Steve Duffy, Cody Goodfellow, Marc Laidlaw, Paul McAuley, Nick Mamatas, Tim Pratt, Norman Partridge, Holly Phill · 528 pages
Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories
Algernon Blackwood · 241 pages
By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood's writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, and horror. Here Blackwood displays his best and most disturbing work-including "The Willows," wh
The Children of Cthulhu
Steve Rasnic Tem, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Weston Ochse, China Mieville, Brian Hodge, Matt Cardin, James Robert Smith, James Van Pelt, L.H. Maynard, M.P.N Sims, Richard Laymon, Mark Chadbourn, Yvonne Navarro, Paul Finch, Alan Dean Foster, J. Michael Reaves, Meredith L. Patterson, Poppy Z. Brite, W.H. Pug · 480 pages
Drawn from H.P. Lovecraft's horrifying and eerily prophetic Cthulhu mythos, an anthology of stories features contributions by Poppy Z. Brite, James S. Dorr, Paul Finch, Yvonne Navarro, James Van Pelt, and Michael Reaves.
The House on the Borderland
William Hope Hodgson · 168 pages
The House on the Borderland is a supernatural horror novel by William Hope Hodgson. He went beyond the existing ghost story and gothic molds, synthesizing a new cosmic horror that made a huge impact on later writers of weird tales, notably H. P. Lovecraft. The two gentlemen Tonnison and Berreggnog head to a village in Ireland for a week's fishing. There they discover the ruins of a strange house a