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Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Vol 1

H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner

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Dagon and Other Macabre Tales

H.P. Lovecraft, Kenneth Sterling, Anna Helen Crofts, T.E.D. Klein · 318 pages

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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

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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.

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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

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Lovecraft Unbound

Ellen Datlow · 419 pages

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The King in Yellow and Other Horror Stories

Robert W. Chambers · 287 pages

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Providence ACT 1

Alan Moore · 352 pages

Alan Moore's quintessential horror series has set the standard for a terrifying examination of the works of H.P. Lovecraft. It is being universally hailed as one of Moore's most realized works in which the master scribe has controlled every iota of the story, art, and presentation. The result has been a masterpiece like no other, unparalleled in tone and content, and a true must have addition to h

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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Cold Print

Ramsey Campbell · 365 pages

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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

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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

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The Secret of Ventriloquism

Jon Padgett · 200 pages

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The Shuttered Room And Other Tales Of Horror

H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth · 205 pages

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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

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Burnt Black Suns

Simon Strantzas · 310 pages

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Our Lady Of Darkness

Fritz Leiber · 190 pages

Our Lady of Darkness introduces San Francisco horror writer Franz Westen. While studying his beloved city through binoculars from his apartment window, he is astonished to see a mysterious figure waving at him from a hilltop two miles away. He walks to Corona Heights and looks back at his building, to discover the figure waving at him from his apartment window—and to find himself caught in a centu

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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

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