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This is the collection that true fans of horror fiction have been waiting for: sixteen of H.P. Lovecraft's most horrifying visions, including Lovecraft's masterpiece, THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME--the shocking revelation of the mysterious forces that hold all mankind in their fearsome grip.

"I think it is beyond doubt that H.P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the Twentieth Century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." Stephen King

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Heritage of Horror - (1982) - essay by Robert Bloch
• The Rats in the Walls - (1924) - novelette
• The Picture in the House - (1919) - short story
• The Outsider - [Dream Cycle] - (1926) - short story
• Pickman's Model - (1927) - short story
• In the Vault - (1925) - short story
• The Silver Key - [Randolph Carter] - (1929) - short story
• The Music of Erich Zann - [Erich Zann] - (1922) - short story
• The Call of Cthulhu - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1928) - novelette
• The Dunwich Horror - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1929) - novelette
• The Whisperer in Darkness - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1931) - novella
• The Colour Out of Space - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1927) - novelette
• The Haunter of the Dark - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novelette
• The Thing on the Doorstep - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1937) - novelette
• The Shadow Over Innsmouth - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novelette
• The Dreams in the Witch-House - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1933) - novelette
• The Shadow Out of Time - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novella

Originally written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and 1930s, H. P. Lovecraft's astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction, and cosmic terror that are as powerful today as they were when they were first published. This tome brings together all of Lovecraft's harrowing stories, including the complete Cthulhu Mythos cycle, just the way they were first released. It will introduce a whole new generation of readers to Lovecraft's fiction, as well as attract those fans who want all his work in a single, definitive volume.

Table of Contents:

• Map of Arkham, circa 1930 - (1970) - interior artwork by Gahan Wilson
• Night-Gaunts - [Fungi from Yuggoth] - (1930) - poem
• Dagon - (1919) - short story
• The Statement of Randolph Carter - [Randolph Carter] - (1920) - short story
• The Doom That Came to Sarnath - [Dream Cycle] - (1920) - short story
• The Cats of Ulthar - [Dream Cycle] - (1920) - short story
• The Nameless City - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1921) - short story
• Herbert West--Reanimator - [Herbert West: Reanimator Universe] - (1922) - novelette
• The Music of Erich Zann - [Erich Zann] - (1922) - short story
• The Lurking Fear - (1928) - novelette
• The Hound - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1924) - short story
• The Rats in the Walls - (1924) - novelette
• Under the Pyramids - (1924) - novelette
• The Unnamable - [Randolph Carter] - (1925) - short story
• In the Vault - (1925) - short story
• The Outsider - [Dream Cycle] - (1926) - short story
• The Horror at Red Hook - (1927) - novelette
• The Colour Out of Space - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1927) - novelette
• Pickman's Model - (1927) - short story
• The Call of Cthulhu - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1928) - novelette
• Cool Air - (1928) - short story
• The Shunned House - (1928) - novelette
• The Silver Key - [Randolph Carter] - (1929) - short story
• The Dunwich Horror - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1929) - novelette
• The Whisperer in Darkness - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1931) - novella
• The Strange High House in the Mist - [Dream Cycle] - (1931) - short story
• The Dreams in the Witch-House - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1933) - novelette
• From Beyond - [Dream Cycle] - (1934) - short story by
• Through the Gates of the Silver Key - [Randolph Carter] - (1934) - novelette
• At the Mountains of Madness - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novel
• The Shadow Over Innsmouth - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novelette
• The Shadow Out of Time - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novella
• The Haunter of the Dark - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novelette
• The Thing on the Doorstep - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1937) - novelette
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward - [Dream Cycle] - (1943) - novel
• The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath - [Randolph Carter] - (1943) - novella
• To a Dreamer - (1921) - poem
• Afterword A Gentleman of Providence - essay by Stephen Jones
• Primary Collaborations and Revisions - essay by uncredited

A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror in a Penguin Classics Deluxe edition with cover art by Travis Louie.

"I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." -Stephen King

Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. S. T. Joshi, Lovecraft's preeminent interpreter, presents a selection of the master's fiction, from the early tales of nightmares and madness such as "The Outsider" to the overpowering cosmic terror of "The Call of Cthulhu." More than just a collection of terrifying tales, this volume reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonical- and visionary-American writer.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (1999) - essay by S. T. Joshi
• Suggestions for Further Reading - (1999) - essay by S. T. Joshi
• A Note on the Text - (1999) - essay by S. T. Joshi
• Dagon - (1919)
• The Statement of Randolph Carter - (1920)
• Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family - (1987) - (variant of The White Ape 1920)
• Celephaïs - (1922)
• Nyarlathotep - (1920)
• The Picture in the House - (1919)
• The Outsider - (1926)
• Herbert West--Reanimator - (1922)
• The Hound - (1924)
• The Rats in the Walls - (1924)
• The Festival - (1925)
• He - (1926)
• Cool Air - (1928)
• The Call of Cthulhu - (1928)
• The Colour Out of Space - (1927)
• The Whisperer in Darkness - (1931)
• The Shadow Over Innsmouth - (1936)
• The Haunter of the Dark - (1936)
• Explanatory Notes - (1999) - essay by S. T. Joshi

Here is a collection of the most famous stories of this unparalleled writer: The Rats in the Walls, PIckman's Model, The Colour out of Space, The Call of Cthulhu and The Haunter of the Dark, plus other tales you would be advised to read late at night if you hope for untroubled sleep....

Contains:

• The Colour out of Space
• The Music of Eric Zann
• The Outsider
• The Rats in the Walls
• The Call of Clthulhu
• Pickman's Model
• The Dunwich Horror
• The Whisperer in Darkness
• The Thing on the Doorstep
• The Haunter of the Dark

One of the most influential practitioners of American horror, H.P. Lovecraft inspired the work of Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Clive Barker. As he perfected his mastery of the macabre, his works developed from seminal fragments into acknowledged masterpieces of terror. This volume traces his chilling career and includes:

• Imprisoned With the Pharaohs -- Houdini seeks to reveal the demons that inhabit the Egyptian night.
• At the Mountains of Madness -- An unsuspecting expedition uncovers a city of untold terror, buried beneath an Antarctic wasteland.
• Herbert West: Reanimator -- Mad experiments yield hideous results in this, the inspiration for the cult film Re-Animator.
• Cool Air -- An icy apartment hides secrets no man dares unlock.
• The Terrible Old Man -- The intruders seek a fortune but find only death!

AND TWENTY-FOUR MORE BLOOD-CHILLING TALES!

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: The Man Who Loved His Craft - (1996) - essay by Barbara Hambly
• Early Tales - (1996) - essay by uncredited
• The Beast in the Cave - (1918) - short story
• The Alchemist - (1916) - short story
• Poetry and the Gods - (1920) - short story by Anna Helen Crofts and H. P. Lovecraft
• The Street - (1920) - short story
• The Transition of Juan Romero - (1919) - short story
• The Book - (1938) - short fiction
• Dagon - (1919) - short story
• The Tomb - (1922) - short story
• Memory - (1923) - poem
• The White Ship - [Dream Cycle] - (1919) - short story
• Arthur Jermyn - (1935) - short story
• The Temple - (1925) - short story
• The Terrible Old Man - (1921) - short story
• The Crawling Chaos - (1921) - short story by Winifred V. Jackson and H. P. Lovecraft
• The Tree - (1921) - short story
• The Moon-Bog - (1926) - short story
• Herbert West: Reanimator - [Herbert West: Reanimator Universe] - (1922) - novelette
• The Lurking Fear - (1928) - novelette
• The Festival - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1925) - short story
• The Unnamable - [Randolph Carter] - (1925) - short story
• Imprisoned with the Pharaohs - (1924) - novelette
• The Shunned House - (1928) - novelette
• He - (1926) - short story
• The Horror at Red Hook - (1927) - novelette
• Cool Air - (1928) - short story
• Nathicana - (1927) - poem
• At the Mountains of Madness - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novel
• In the Walls of Eryx - (1939) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and Kenneth Sterling
• The Evil Clergyman - (1939) - short story

To the long tradition of eldritch horror pioneered and refined by writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti, comes Laird Barron, an author whose literary voice invokes the grotesque, the devilish, and the perverse with rare intensity and astonishing craftsmanship. Collected here for the first time are nine terrifying tales of cosmic horror, including the World Fantasy Award-nominated novella "The Imago Sequence," the International Horror Guild Award-nominated "Proboscis," and the never-before published "Procession of the Black Sloth." Together, these stories, each a masterstroke of craft and imaginative irony, form a shocking cycle of distorted evolution, encroaching chaos, and ravenous insectoid hive-minds hidden just beneath the seemingly benign surface of the Earth.

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Old Virginia - (2003) - novelette
• 19 - Shiva, Open Your Eye - (2001) - short story
• 31 - Procession of the Black Sloth - novella
• 77 - Bulldozer - (2004) - novelette
• 101 - Proboscis - (2005) - novelette
• 119 - Hallucigenia - (2006) - novella
• 169 - Parallax - (2005) - short story
• 189 - The Royal Zoo Is Closed - (2006) - short story
• 199 - The Imago Sequence - (2005) - novella

Twelve soul-chilling stories by the master of horror will leave you shivering in your boots and afraid to go out in the night. Only H.P. Lovecraft can send your heart racing faster than it's ever gone before. And here are the stories to prove it.

Table of Contents:

• The Lurking Fear - (1923)
• The Colour Out of Space - (1927)
• The Nameless City - (1921)
• Pickman's Model - (1927)
• Arthur Jermyn - (1935) - (variant of The White Ape 1920)
• The Unnamable - (1925)
• The Call of Cthulhu - (1928)
• The Moon-Bog - (1926)
• Cool Air - (1928)
• The Hound - (1924)
• The Shunned House - (1928)

In the degenerate, unliked backwater of Dunwich, Wilbur Whately, a most unusual child, is born. Of unnatural parentage, he grows at an uncanny pace to an unsettling height, but the boy's arrival simply precedes that of a true horror: one of the Old Ones, that forces the people of the town to hole up by night.

The Dunwich Horror and Others contains the following tales:

• H. P. Lovecraft and His Work by August Derleth
• In the Vault
• Pickman's Model
• The Rats in the Walls
• The Outsider
• The Colour out of Space
• The Music of Erich Zann
• The Haunter of the Dark
• The Picture in the House
• The Call of Cthulhu
• The Dunwich Horror
• Cool Air
• The Whisperer in Darkness
• The Terrible Old Man
• The Thing on the Doorstep
• The Shadow Over Innsmouth
• The Shadow Out of Time

Table of Contents:

• By Way of Introduction (Beyond the Wall of Sleep) - essay by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei
• Autobiography: Some Notes on a Nonentity - essay by H. P. Lovecraft
• The Commonplace Book - (1938) - essay by H. P. Lovecraft (variant of Commonplace Book)
• History and Chronology of the Necronomicon - short fiction (variant of History of the Necronomicon 1938)
• Memory - (1923) - poem
• What the Moon Brings -(1922) - poem
• Nyarlathotep - (1920) - poem
• Ex Oblivione - (1921) - poem
• The Tree - (1921) - short story
• The Other Gods - (1933) - short story
• The Quest of Iranon - (1935) - short story
• The Doom That Came to Sarnath - (1920) - short story
• The White Ship - (1919) - short story
• From Beyond - (1934) - short story
• Beyond the Wall of Sleep - (1919) - short story
• The Unnamable - (1925) - short story
• The Hound - (1924) - short story
• The Moon-Bog - (1926) - short story
• The Evil Clergyman - (1939) - short story
• Herbert West--Reanimator - (1922) - novelette (variant of Herbert West: Reanimator)
• The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath - novella
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward - novel
• The Crawling Chaos - (1921) - short story by Winifred V. Jackson and H. P. Lovecraft [as by H. P. Lovecraft and Elizabeth Berkeley ]
• The Green Meadow - (1918) - short story by Winifred V. Jackson and H. P. Lovecraft [as by H. P. Lovecraft and Elizabeth Berkeley ]
• The Curse of Yig - short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop [as by Zealia Brown-Reed ]
• The Horror in the Museum - (1933) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald [as by Hazel Heald ]
• Out of the Eons - (1935) - novelette by Hazel Heald and H. P. Lovecraft [as by Hazel Heald ]
• The Mound - novella by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop [as by Zealia Brown-Reed ]
• The Diary of Alonzo Typer - (1938) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and William Lumley [as by William Lumley ]
• The Challenge from Beyond - (1935) - short story by H. P. Lovecraft and C. L. Moore and A. Merritt and Robert E. Howard and Frank Belknap Long [as by H. P. Lovecraft and C. L. Moore and A. Merritt and Robert E. Howard and Frank Belknap Long, Jr. ]
• In the Walls of Eryx - (1939) - novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and Kenneth Sterling
• Ibid - (1938) - short story
• Sweet Ermengarde - short story
• Providence - (1924) - poem
• On a Grecian Colonnade in a Park - (1920) - poem
• Old Christmas - (1918) - poem
• New England Fallen - poem
• On a New England Village Seen by Moonlight - (1915) - poem
• Astrophobos - (1918) - poem
• Sunset - (1917) - poem
• A Year Off - poem
• A Summer Sunset and Evening - (1937) - poem
• To Mistress Sophia Simple, Queen of the Cinema - (1919) - poem
• The Ancient Track - (1930) - poem
• The Eidolon - (1918) - poem
• The Nightmare Lake - (1919) - poem
• The Outpost - (1930) - poem
• The Rutted Road - (1917) - poem
• The Wood - (1929) - poem
• Hallowe'en in a Suburb - (1926) - poem
• Primavera - (1925) - poem
• October - (1920) - poem
• To a Dreamer - (1921) - poem
• Despair - (1919) - poem
• Nemesis - (1918) - poem
• Psychopompos - (1919) - poem
• The Book - (1934) - poem
• Pursuit - (1934) - poem
• The Key - (1935) - poem
• Recognition - (1936) - poem
• Homecoming - (1935) - poem
• The Lamp - (1931) - poem
• Zaman's Hill - (1934) - poem
• The Port - (1930) - poem
• The Courtyard - (1930) - poem
• The Pigeon-Flyers - poem
• The Well - (1930) - poem
• The Howler - (1932) - poem
• Hesperia - (1930) - poem
• Star-Winds - (1930) - poem
• Antarktos - (1930) - poem
• The Window - (1931) - poem
• A Memory - poem
• The Gardens of Yin - (1932) - poem
• The Bells - (1930) - poem
• Night-Gaunts - (1936) - poem
• Nyarlathotep - (1931) - poem
• Azathoth - (1931) - poem
• Mirage - (1931) - poem
• The Canal - (1932) - poem
• The Familiars - (1930) - poem
• The Elder Pharos - (1931) - poem
• Expectancy - poem
• Nostalgia - (1930) - poem
• Background - (1930) - poem
• The Dweller - (1930) - poem
• Alienation - (1931) - poem
• Harbour Whistles - (1930) - poem
• Recapture - (1930) - poem
• Evening Star - poem
• Continuity - (1936) - poem
• Yule Horror - (1926) - poem (variant of Festival 1925)
• 408 - To Mr. Finlay, Upon His Drawing for Mr. Bloch's Tale, "The Faceless God" - (1937) - poem (variant of To Virgil Finlay: Upon His Drawing for Robert Bloch's Tale, "The Faceless God")
• To Clark Ashton Smith, Esq., Upon His Phantastick Tales, Verses, Pictures, and Sculptures - (1938) - poem (variant of To Clark Ashton Smith)
• Where Once Poe Walked - (1937) - poem
• Christmas Greeting to Mrs. Phillips Gamwell--1925 - (1925) - poem
• Brick Row - (1930) - poem
• The Messenger - (1938) - poem
• The Cthulhu Mythology: A Glossary - (1942) - essay by Francis T. Laney
• An Appreciation of H. P. Lovecraft - essay by W. Paul Cook

Contents:

• Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Outsider - essay by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei
• 3 - Dagon - (1919) - shortstory
• 7 - Polaris - [Dream Cycle] - (1920) - shortstory
• 10 - Celephais - [Dream Cycle] - (1922) - shortstory (variant of Celephaïs)
• 14 - Hypnos - [Dream Cycle] - (1922) - shortstory
• 19 - The Cats of Ulthar - [Dream Cycle] - (1920) - shortstory
• 22 - The Strange High House in the Mist - [Dream Cycle] - (1931) - shortstory
• 28 - The Statement of Randolph Carter - [Randolph Carter] - (1920) - shortstory
• 32 - The Silver Key - [Randolph Carter] - (1929) - shortstory
• 40 - Through the Gates of the Silver Key - [Randolph Carter] - (1934) - novelette and E. Hoffmann Price [as ]
• 63 - The Outsider - [Dream Cycle] - (1926) - shortstory
• 67 - The Music of Erich Zann - (1922) - shortstory
• 73 - The Rats in the Walls - (1924) - novelette
• 86 - Cool Air - (1928) - shortstory
• 92 - He - (1926) - shortstory
• 99 - The Horror at Red Hook - (1927) - novelette
• 113 - The Temple - (1925) - shortstory
• 121 - Arthur Jermyn - (1935) - shortstory (variant of The White Ape 1920)
• 127 - The Picture in the House - (1919) - shortstory
• 132 - The Festival - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1925) - shortstory
• 138 - The Terrible Old Man - (1921) - shortstory
• 140 - The Tomb - (1922) - shortstory
• 147 - The Shunned House - (1928) - novelette
• 164 - In the Vault - (1925) - shortstory
• 170 - Pickman's Model - (1927) - shortstory
• 179 - The Haunter of the Dark - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novelette
• 194 - The Dreams in the Witch-House - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1933) - novelette
• 217 - The Thing on the Doorstep - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1937) - novelette
• 234 - The Nameless City - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1921) - shortstory
• 242 - The Lurking Fear - (1923) - shortstory
• 255 - The Call of Cthulhu - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1928) - novelette
• 274 - The Colour Out of Space - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1927) - novelette
• 292 - The Dunwich Horror - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1929) - novelette
• 319 - The Whisperer in Darkness - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1931) - novella
• 359 - The Shadow Over Innsmouth - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novelette
• 400 - The Shadow Out of Time - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novella
• 442 - At the Mountains of Madness - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novel
• 507 - Supernatural Horror in Literature - [Supernatural Horror in Literature] - (1927) - essay

A complete short novel, AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS is a tale of terror unilke any other. The Barren, windswept interior of the Antarctic plateau was lifeless--or so the expedition from Miskatonic University thought. Then they found the strange fossils of unheard-of creatures... and the carved stones tens of millions of years old... and, finally, the mind-blasting terror of the City of the Old Ones. Three additional strange tales, written as only H.P. Lovecraft can write, are also included in this macabre collection of the strange and the weird.

Table of Contents:

• At the Mountains of Madness - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1936) - novel
• The Shunned House - (1928) - novelette
• The Dreams in the Witch-House - [Cthulhu Mythos] - (1933) - novelette
• The Statement of Randolph Carter - [Randolph Carter] - (1920) - short story

After attacking Devil's Reef in 1928, the U.S. government rounded up the people of Innsmouth and took them to the desert, far from their ocean, their Deep One ancestors, and their sleeping god Cthulhu. Only Aphra and Caleb Marsh survived the camps, and they emerged without a past or a future.

The government that stole Aphra's life now needs her help. FBI agent Ron Spector believes that Communist spies have stolen dangerous magical secrets from Miskatonic University, secrets that could turn the Cold War hot in an instant, and hasten the end of the human race.

Aphra must return to the ruins of her home, gather scraps of her stolen history, and assemble a new family to face the darkness of human nature.

Includes bonus Aphra Marsh novelette "The Litany of Earth".

A nameless terror surges through centuries to engulf the soul of Charles Dexter Ward, a brilliant New England antiquarian. Evil spirits, malefic gods whose memory lives on in whispered legends and fear-stricken superstitions, still lurk in vile catacombs beneath the surface of a blighted land. Ward is driven to unleash these loathsome horrors upon a defenceless world, possessed by the demonic shade of his ancestor Joseph Curwen, a warlock steeped in the blackest arts of magic. Now Ward too must master these obscene rituals, and pay the price in blood. Human blood.

The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward remains the only full-length work of fiction by HP Lovecraft, the master of 20th century horror. It has inspired such classic horror films as Roger Corman's The Haunted Palace and Lucio Fulci's The Beyond.

The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasy.

Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, 22-year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George--publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide--and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite--heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus's ancestors--they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours.

At the manor, Atticus discovers his father in chains, held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawn--led by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Caleb--which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus. And his one hope of salvation may be the seed of his--and the whole Turner clan's--destruction.

A chimerical blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that stretches across time, touching diverse members of two black families, Lovecraft Country is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racism--the terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today.

Sturgeon and Hugo Award nominated novella.

People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there.

Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and their cops. But when he delivers an occult tome to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens, Tom opens a door to a deeper realm of magic, and earns the attention of things best left sleeping.

A storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Black Tom live to see it break?

The state took Aphra away from Innsmouth. They took her history, her home, her family, her god. They tried to take the sea. Now, years later, when she is just beginning to rebuild a life, an agent of that government intrudes on her life again, with an offer she wishes she could refuse. "The Litany of Earth" is a dark fantasy story inspired by the Lovecraft mythos.

This short story can also be found in the anthologies New Cthulhu 2: More Recent Weird (2015), edited by Paula Guran, and Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction (2018), edited by Irene Gallo.

Read the full story for free at Tor.com, or listen to a podcast of this story at Drabblecast.

"[Lovecraft's] dream fantasy works are as terrifying and haunting as his tales of horror and the macabre. A master craftsman, Lovecraft brings compelling visions of nightmarish fear, invisible worlds and the demons of the unconscious. If one author truly represents the very best in American literary horror, it is H. P. Lovecraft."
--John Carpenter, Director of At the Mouth of Madness, Halloween, and Christine

This volume collects, for the first time, the entire Dream Cycle created by H. P. Lovecraft, the master of twentieth-century horror, including some of his most fantastic tales:

• THE DOOM THAT CAME TO SARNATH--Hate, genocide, and a deadly curse consume the land of Mnar.
• THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER--"You fool, Warren is DEAD!"
• THE NAMELESS CITY--Death lies beneath the shifting sands, in a story linking the Dream Cycle with the legendary Cthulhu Mythos.
• THE CATS OF ULTHAR--In Ulthar, no man may kill a cat... and woe unto any who tries.
• THE DREAM QUEST OF UNKNOWN KADATH--The epic nightmare adventure with tendrils stretching throughout the entire Dream Cycle.
• AND TWENTY MORE TALES OF SURREAL TERROR

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Concerning Dreams and Nightmares- (1995)- essay by Neil Gaiman
• Azathoth- [Dream Cycle]- (1922)- short story
• The Descendant- (1926)- short story
• The Thing in the Moonlight- [Dream Cycle]- (1941)- short story
• Polaris- [Dream Cycle]- (1920)- short story
• Beyond the Wall of Sleep- (1919)- short story
• The Doom That Came to Sarnath- [Dream Cycle]- (1920)- short story
• The Statement of Randolph Carter- [Randolph Carter]- (1920)- short story
• The Cats of Ulthar- [Dream Cycle]- (1920)- short story
• Celephais- [Dream Cycle]- (1922)- short story
• From Beyond- [Dream Cycle]- (1934)- short story
• Nyarlathotep- [Dream Cycle]- (1920)- short fiction
• The Nameless City- [Cthulhu Mythos]- (1921)- short story
• The Other Gods- [Dream Cycle]- (1933)- short story
• Ex Oblivione- [Dream Cycle]- (1921)- poem
• The Quest of Iranon- [Dream Cycle]- (1935)- short story
• The Hound- [Cthulhu Mythos]- (1924)- short story
• Hypnos- [Dream Cycle]- (1922)- short story
• What the Moon Brings- [Dream Cycle]- (1922)- poem
• Pickman's Model- (1927)- short story
• The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath- [Randolph Carter]- (1943)- novella
• The Silver Key- [Randolph Carter]- (1929)- short story
• The Strange High House in the Mist- [Dream Cycle]- (1931)- short story
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward- [Dream Cycle]- (1943)- novel
• The Dreams in the Witch-House- [Cthulhu Mythos]- (1933)- novelette
• Through the Gates of the Silver Key- [Randolph Carter]- (1934)- novelette

Arthur Machen (1863-1947), popular Welsh writer of the bizarre and fantastic, created some of the finest horror stories ever written. On the surface, everything appears normal and cheerful in this bustling suburb of neatly laid out homes and well-trimmed hedges. But nothing is really as it seems. For in this world of impostors, conspiracies combine with dark forces to veil a once-ordinary London neighborhood in a cloud of mystery and fear.

A masterpiece of Gothic horror and suspense that inspired such writers as H. P. Lovecraft, The Three Impostors is Machen's famous collection of "weird tales" — a string of shocking short stories woven together with a fine narrative thread. Rich with terror, adventure, satire, deception, and dreamlike fantasy, it is a classic of occult literature written by a stylistic master.

HOPE HAS A PRICE

Nick Prasad has always enjoyed a quiet life in the shadow of his best friend, child prodigy and technological genius Joanna 'Johnny' Chambers. But all that is about to end.

When Johnny invents a clean reactor that could eliminate fossil fuels and change the world, she awakens primal, evil Ancient Ones set on subjugating humanity.

From the oldest library in the world to the ruins of Nineveh, hunted at every turn, they will need to trust each other completely to survive...

A government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning in Winslow, Arizona. Later that day he meets a woman in a diner to exchange information about an event that happened a week earlier for which neither has an explanation, but which haunts the Signalman.

In a ranch house near the shore of the Salton Sea a cult leader gathers up the weak and susceptible -- the Children of the Next Level -- and offers them something to believe in and a chance for transcendence. The future is coming and they will help to usher it in.

A day after the events at the ranch house which disturbed the Signalman so deeply that he and his government sought out help from 'other' sources, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory abruptly loses contact with NASA's interplanetary probe New Horizons. Something out beyond the orbit of Pluto has made contact.

And a woman floating outside of time looks to the future and the past for answers to what can save humanity.

A dark and electrifying novel about addiction, fanaticism, and what might exist on the other side of life.

In a small New England town, over half a century ago, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along with his beautiful wife, will transform the local church. The men and boys are all a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls feel the same about Reverend Jacobs--including Jamie's mother and beloved sister, Claire. With Jamie, the Reverend shares a deeper bond based on a secret obsession. When tragedy strikes the Jacobs family, this charismatic preacher curses God, mocks all religious belief, and is banished from the shocked town.

Jamie has demons of his own. Wed to his guitar from the age of thirteen, he plays in bands across the country, living the nomadic lifestyle of bar-band rock and roll while fleeing from his family's horrific loss. In his mid-thirties--addicted to heroin, stranded, desperate--Jamie meets Charles Jacobs again, with profound consequences for both men. Their bond becomes a pact beyond even the Devil's devising, and Jamie discovers that revival has many meanings.

This rich and disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written. It's a masterpiece from King, in the great American tradition of Frank Norris, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe.

A rundown apartment in Koreatown. A Los Angeles winter. A strung out, worn out, wrecked and used government agent is scraped up off the pavement, cleaned up, and reluctantly sent out into battle one last time.

Ellison Nicodemo has seen and done terrible things. She thought her only remaining quest was for oblivion. Then the Signalman comes calling. He wants to learn if she can stop the latest apocalypse. Ellison, once a unique and valuable asset, can barely remember why she ever fought the good fight.

Still, you don't say no to the Signalman, and the time has come to face her fears and the nightmare forces that almost destroyed her. Only Ellison can unleash the hound of Tindalos.

Just as the Signalman stood and faced the void in Agents of Dreamland, so it falls to Ptolema, a chess piece in her agency's world-spanning game, to unravel what has become tangled and unknowable.

Something strange is happening on the shores of New England. Something stranger still is happening to the world itself, chaos unleashed, rational explanation slipped loose from the moorings of the known. Two rival agencies stare across the Void at one another. Two sisters, the deadly, sickened products of experiments going back decades, desperately evade their hunters.

An invisible war rages at the fringes of our world, with unimaginable consequences and Lovecraftian horrors that ripple centuries into the future.

This edition of Caitlín R. Kiernan's Black Helicopters is an expanded and completed version of the World Fantasy Award-nominated novella of the same name.