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H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Collection with Accompanying Facts by H.P. Lovecraft
24 ratingsH. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Collection. Classed as one of the greatest American horror fiction writers of our time, you can now have H.P Lovecraft's work all in one kindle download (with easy navigation). Over 2,000 kindle pages long! (2,195) 62 Short Stories and 5 Novellas. This collection is unabridged, and appears as he first intended it. (And how the editors at the time first published it)... -
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The Complete Fiction by H.P. Lovecraft
24 ratingsThe Nameless CityThe FestivalThe Colour Out of SpaceThe Call of CthulhuThe Dunwich HorrorThe Whisperer in DarknessThe Dreams in the Witch HouseThe Haunter of the DarkThe Shadow Over InnsmouthDiscarded Draft of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"The Shadow Out of TimeAt the Mountains of MadnessThe Case of Charles Dexter WardAzathothBeyond the Wall of SleepCelephaïsCool AirDagonEx OblivioneFacts... -
![The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre by H.P. Lovecraft
26 ratings“H.P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.”—Stephen King“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”—H.P. LovecraftThis is the collection that true fans of horror fiction must have: sixteen of H.P... -
![At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror by H.P. Lovecraft]()
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror by H.P. Lovecraft
27 ratingsA 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... -
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![The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
20 ratingsA definitive edition of stories by the master of supernatural fictionHoward Phillips Lovecraft's unique contribution to American literature was a melding of traditional supernaturalism (derived chiefly from Edgar Allan Poe) with the genre of science fiction that emerged in the early 1920s... -
![Tales by H.P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub]()
Tales by H.P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub
20 ratingsA twentieth-century successor to Edgar Allan Poe as the master of “weird fiction,” Howard Philips Lovecraft once wrote, “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown... -
![Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales by H.P. Lovecraft]()
Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales by H.P. Lovecraft
24 ratingsOriginally written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and 1930s, H. P. Lovecraft's astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction, and cosmology that are as powerful today as they were when first published. This tome presents original versions of many of his most harrowing stories, including the complete Cthulhu Mythos cycle, in order of publication... -
![The Dreams in the Witch House & Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Dreams in the Witch House & Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
16 ratingsOne of the masters of 'weird fiction', H. P. Lovecraft expanded the vast boundaries of the horror genre with his vividly imagined stories of exotic and fantastical otherworlds, nightmarish dreamscapes or the supernatural terrors lurking beneath the surface of small-town America... -
![The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death by H.P. Lovecraft, E. Hoffmann Price]()
The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death by H.P. Lovecraft, E. Hoffmann Price
18 ratingsThis 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.THE NAMELESS CITY--Death lies beneath the shifting sands, in a story linking the Dream Cycle with the legendary Cthulhu Mythos... -
![The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H.P. Lovecraft
24 ratingsIncantations of black magic unearthed unspeakable horrors in Providence, Rhode Island... -
![Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories by M.R. James]()
Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories by M.R. James
14 ratingsThe only annotated edition of M. R. James's writings currently available, Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories contains the entire first two volumes of James's ghost stories, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary... -
![The Shadow over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Shadow over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft
24 ratingsThe Shadow over Innsmouth is a horror novella by H. P. Lovecraft. It forms part of the Cthulhu Mythos, using its motif of a malign undersea civilization. It references several shared elements of the Mythos, including place-names, mythical creatures and invocations... -
![The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft: 102 Horror Short Stories, Novels, Juvenelia, Collaborations and Ghost Writings by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft: 102 Horror Short Stories, Novels, Juvenelia, Collaborations and Ghost Writings by H.P. Lovecraft
6 ratings"The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft" includes all the 102 short stories, novels, Juvenilia, Collaborations and Ghost writings of H. P Lovecraft. If it has been written by H. P. Lovecraft, it is in this book - search no more!You can even find stories of H. P. Lovecraft that are not available online like "four o'clock" and "Bothon". This will be your H. P Lovecraft Bible... -
![The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies by Clark Ashton Smith]()
The Dark Eidolon and Other Fantasies by Clark Ashton Smith
12 ratingsA much-awaited collection of prose and poetry from one of the great cosmic masters of the supernatural Not just any fantasy, horror, and science fiction author could impress H. P. Lovecraft into calling him "perhaps unexcelled by any other writer, dead or living” or compel Fritz Lieber to employ the worthy term sui generis... -
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![Great Tales of Horror by H.P. Lovecraft]()
Great Tales of Horror by H.P. Lovecraft
14 ratingsH.P Lovecraft: Great Tales of Horror features twenty of horror master H.P... -
![Dagon and Other Macabre Tales by H.P. Lovecraft, T.E.D. Klein]()
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales by H.P. Lovecraft, T.E.D. Klein
19 ratingsH.P. Lovecraft. Dagon and Other Macabre Tales. [Sauk City]: Arkham House, [1986]. Corrected fifth printing. Octavo. 448 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket... -
![The Willows by Algernon Blackwood]()
The Willows by Algernon Blackwood
20 ratingsTwo friends are midway on a canoe trip down the Danube River. Throughout the story Blackwood personifies the surrounding environment—river, sun, wind—and imbues them with a powerful and ultimately threatening character... -
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The Wine-Dark Sea by Robert Aickman
14 ratingsPeter Straub called Robert Aickman 'this century's most profound writer of what we call horror stories'. Aickman's 'strange stories' (his preferred term for them) are a subtle exploration of psychological displacement and paranoia. His characters are ordinary people that are gradually drawn into the darker recesses of their own minds... -
![The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales by H.P. Lovecraft
14 ratingsThe Cthulhu Mythos was H. P. Lovecraft's greatest contribution to supernatural literature: a series of stories that evoked cosmic awe and terror through their accounts of incomprehensibly alien monsters and their horrifying incursions into our world... -
![The Thing on the Doorstep by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Thing on the Doorstep by H.P. Lovecraft
16 ratings"The Thing on the Doorstep" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos universe of horror fiction. It was written in August 1933, and first published in the January 1937 issue of Weird Tales... -
![The Coldest War by Ian Tregillis]()
The Coldest War by Ian Tregillis
16 ratingsSomeone is killing Britain's warlocks.Twenty-two years after the Second World War, a precarious balance of power maintains the peace between Great Britain and the USSR. For decades, the warlocks have been all that stand between the British Empire and the Soviet Union-- a vast domain stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the shores of the English Channel...Categorized as:
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![The Whisperer in Darkness: Collected Stories Volume 1 by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Whisperer in Darkness: Collected Stories Volume 1 by H.P. Lovecraft
16 ratingsThat is not dead that can eternal lieAnd with strange aeons even death may die.Millenia ago, the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but slumbered. But when a massive sea tremor brings the ancient stone city of R'lyeh to the surface once more, the Old Ones awaken at last... -
![The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
31 ratingsOne of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harrowing tale of the weakness of the human mind when confronted by powers and intelligences from beyond our world... -
![The Rats in the Walls by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Rats in the Walls by H.P. Lovecraft
20 ratings"The Rats in the Walls" is a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. Written in August–September 1923, it was first published in Weird Tales, March 1924.The story is narrated by the scion of the Delapore family, who has moved from Massachusetts to his ancestral estate in England, known as Exham Priory. On several occasions, the protagonist and his cats hear the sounds of rats scurrying behind the walls... -
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The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft
19 ratingsThe Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is a novella by H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) published by Arkham House posthumously in 1943 in the collection Beyond the Wall of Sleep. Begun probably in the autumn of 1926, it was completed on January 22, 1927 and was unpublished in his lifetime...Categorized as:
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![The White People and Other Weird Stories by Arthur Machen]()
The White People and Other Weird Stories by Arthur Machen
14 ratingsMachen'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... -
![House of Cthulhu by Brian Lumley]()
House of Cthulhu by Brian Lumley
6 ratings"The House of Cthulhu" introduces the weird and wonderful world of Theem'hdra, an island continent of wonders and terrors, where brave men die terrifying deaths, awe-inspiring sorcerers hurl powerful magic at each other, and monsters abound. This is classic Lovecraftian horror from one of the masters of the form, British Fantasy Award-winner Brian Lumley... -
![The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen]()
The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen
12 ratingsLucian Taylor is damned, either through contact with an erotically pagan faerie world or through something degenerate in his own nature. He thinks of the damning thing inside him as a faun. He becomes a writer, and when he moves to London he becomes trapped by the increasing reality of the dark imaginings of this creature within him, which become increasingly real... -
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Walpurgisnacht by Gustav Meyrink
8 ratingsWalpurgisnacht uses Prague as the setting for a clash between German officialdom immured in the ancient castle above the Moldau, and a Czech revolution seething in the city below. History, myth and political reality merge in an apocalyptic climax as the rebels, urged on by a drum covered in human skin, storm the castle to crown a poor violinist "Emperor of the World" in St... -
![The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood]()
The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
18 ratingsAlgernon Blackwood's classic tale, The Wendigo. An influential novella by one of the most best-known writers of fantasy and horror, set in a place and time Blackwood knew well... -
![The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft
17 ratings"The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March and August 1921, it was first published in Weird Tales, April 1926. In this work, a mysterious man who has been living alone in a castle for as long as he can remember decides to break free in search of human contact and light... -
![Delta Green: Denied to the Enemy by Dennis Detwiller]()
Delta Green: Denied to the Enemy by Dennis Detwiller
6 ratingsThule, the Nazi Atlantis, legendary home of Aryan superbeings that ruled prehistory. Thule was supposed to be a Nazi myth, but when a defector from the SS occult sciences division, the Karotechia, brings proof of Thule's reality, Delta Green's course is clear: the alien city and its technological and occult secrets must be denied to the enemy at all costs...Categorized as:
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![The Ceremonies by T.E.D. Klein]()
The Ceremonies by T.E.D. Klein
14 ratingsJeremy Freirs is a graduate student and teacher who decides to spend his summer working on his dissertation and preparing for the class he will be teaching in the fall on Gothic Literature; he thinks he has found the perfect place in Gilead, New Jersey, is a world all to its own, the home of a strict religious sect with extremely puritan ideas... -
![The White People by Arthur Machen]()
The White People by Arthur Machen
12 ratingsIt was winter time, and there were black terrible woods hanging from the hills all round; it was like seeing a large room hung with black curtains, and the shape of the trees seemed quite different from any I had ever seen before. I was afraid... -
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![Through the Gates of the Silver Key by H.P. Lovecraft, E. Hoffmann Price]()
Through the Gates of the Silver Key by H.P. Lovecraft, E. Hoffmann Price
10 ratingsAt a gathering to decide the fate of Randolph Carter's estate which has been held in trust since his disappearance the mysterious Swami Chandraputra, who wears curious mittens and enveloping robes, tells Carter's acquaintances of his ultimate fate. He explains that the key took Carter to a type of higher dimension... -
![The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft]()
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Pickman's Model by H.P. Lovecraft
17 ratings"Pickman's Model" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in September 1926 and first published in the October 1927 issue of Weird Tales.The story revolves around a Bostonian painter named Richard Upton Pickman who creates horrifying images... -
![The Curse of Yig by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Curse of Yig by H.P. Lovecraft
8 ratings"The Curse of Yig" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop in which Yig, "The Father of Serpents", is first introduced... -
![In the Vault by H.P. Lovecraft]()
In the Vault by H.P. Lovecraft
14 ratings"In the Vault", first published in 1925 on press journal Tryout, is a short story by the master of horror fiction H.P.Lovecraft about an undertaker imprisoned in a village vault where he was removing winter coffins for spring burial, and his escape by enlarging a transom reached by the piling up of the coffins... -
![The Hound by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Hound by H.P. Lovecraft
14 ratings"The Hound" is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft in September 1922 and published in the February 1924 issue of Weird Tales. It contains the first mention of Lovecraft's fictional text the Necronomicon.The story focuses around the narrator and his friend, St. John, who have a deranged interest in robbing graves... -
![Carnacki, The Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson]()
Carnacki, The Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson
14 ratingsCarnacki, the Ghost-Finder is a collection of supernatural detective short stories by author William Hope Hodgson... -
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Carnacki, the Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson
14 ratingsWilliam Hope Hodgson's Carnacki is an extremely unusual detective. Where other sleuths specialise in tracking down villains in this world, Carnacki's talent is for combat with the evil, unearthly forces of the Outside. In this volume the reader can join him on nine chilling supernatural hunts into the icy realms of otherworldly horror...'The Thing Invisible.''The Gateway of the Monster... -
![The Horror at Martin's Beach by H.P. Lovecraft, Howard Phillips Lovecraft]()
The Horror at Martin's Beach by H.P. Lovecraft, Howard Phillips Lovecraft
6 ratingsThe Horror at Martin's Beach is a short story by American writers H. P. Lovecraft and Sonia H. Greene. It was written in June 1922 and first published (as "The Invisible Monster") in November 1923 in Weird Tales (Vol. 2, No. 4, 75–76, 83).The captain who captured the creature tours the coast and profits from the corpse of the deceased creature... -
![The Haunter of the Dark by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Haunter of the Dark by H.P. Lovecraft
13 ratingsRobert Blake - a young man with an interest in the occult - becomes fascinated by a large disused church set on a hill which he can see from his lodgings. His researches reveal that the church has a sinister history and is dreaded by the local inhabitants as being haunted by a primeval evil... -
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![Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis]()
Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis
18 ratingsIt's 1939. The Nazis have supermen, the British have demons, and one perfectly normal man gets caught in betweenRaybould Marsh is a British secret agent in the early days of the Second World War, haunted by something strange he saw on a mission during the Spanish Civil War: a German woman with wires going into her head who looked at him as if she knew him...Categorized as:
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![The Lovecraft Compendium by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Lovecraft Compendium by H.P. Lovecraft
10 ratingsThis collection contains the five stories that reference one of H. P. Lovecraft's greatest creations - Cthulhu. They include "Dagon", "The Call of Cthulhu", "The Dunwich Horror", "The Whisperer in Darkness" and "The Haunter of the Dark". Each one is testament to the power of Lovecraft's imagination in his creation of the monster known as Cthulhu... -
![The Temple (H.P. Lovecraft Ebooks) by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Temple (H.P. Lovecraft Ebooks) by H.P. Lovecraft
15 ratingsThe Temple, first published in 1925, is a short nautical story by the master of horror H.P. Lovecraft, with a World War I background... -
![Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft, Paule Perez]()
Dagon by H.P. Lovecraft, Paule Perez
15 ratingsThe story is the testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who relates an incident that occurred during his service as an officer during World War I... -
![Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber]()
Our Lady of Darkness by Fritz Leiber
14 ratingsMiddle-aged San Francisco horror writer Franz Westen is rediscovering ordinary life following a long alcoholic binge. Then one day, peering at his apartment window from atop a nearby hill, he sees a pale brown thing lean out his window…and wave... -
![The Statement of Randolph Carter by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Statement of Randolph Carter by H.P. Lovecraft
16 ratings"The Statement of Randolph Carter" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. It tells of a traumatic event in the life of Randolph Carter, a student of the occult loosely representing Lovecraft himself. It is the first story in which Carter appears and is part of Lovecraft's Dream Cycle...
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