The Essential Horror of H P Lovecraft: The Short Horror Stories of HP Lovecraft

by H.P. Lovecraft

HP Lovecraft: Short Horror Stories - The Essential Horror of H P Lovecraft by HP Lovecraft. 27 Classic Short Horror Stories by HP Lovecraft. Including Elizabeth Berkeley and Helen Crofts. Stories include - 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. 27 Short Horror Stories by HP Lovecraft.

Genres: Classics, Horror

174 pages, Paperback

First published February 23, 2014

About the author

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.
See also Howard Phillips Lovecraft.

— Wikipedia

Reviews

[Belen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kind of kind, kind of not.
I love the writing, the details, the juicy bits that classical authors write because it WAS original and it wasn’t the same story told over.
But none of these stories scared me, they were scary for the past but not for the present.

[Cristina · Rating 4 out of 5]

*Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1920)
*Nyarlathotep (1920)
*The Picture in the House (1920)
*The Outsider (1921)
*The Hound (1922)
*The Festival (1923)
*He (1925)
*Cool Air (1926)

[Sian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short horror you can read and reread

[Catherine Bartholet · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mountains of Madness is prolly my favorite. God his prose is so bad.

[anastasia~ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Creepy

[Ya Boi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good.