Edited by S.T. Joshi

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In the 1920s and ’30s, H.P. Lovecraft pioneered a new type of weird fiction that fused elements of supernatural horror with the concepts of visionary science fiction. Lovecraft’s tales of cosmic horror revolutionized modern horror fiction and earned him the reputation of the most influential American writer of weird tales since Edgar Allan Poe.
This omnibus collects for the first time in a single volume all of Lovecraft’s groundbreaking fiction: “The Call of Cthulhu,” “The Dreams in the Witch House,” “The Haunter of the Dark,” “At the Mountains of Madness,” “The Shadow out of Time,” “The Shadow over Innsmouth,” the full-length novels The Case of Charles Dexter Ward and The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, and many others.
H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction is part of Barnes & Noble’s Library of Essential Writers. Each title in the series presents the finest works—complete and unabridged—from one of the greatest writers in literature in magnificent, elegantly designed hardback editions. Every volume also includes an original introduction that provides the reader with enlightening information on the writer’s life and works.

Contents

• Introduction by S.T. Joshi
• The Beast in the Cave
• The Alchemist
• The Tomb
• Dagon
• A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson
• Polaris
• Beyond the Wall of Sleep
• Memory
• Old Bugs
• The Transition of Juan Romero
• The White Ship
• The Street
• The Doom That Came to Sarnath
• The Statement of Randolph Carter
• The Terrible Old Man
• The Tree
• The Cats of Ulthar
• The Temple
• Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
• Celephaïs
• From Beyond
• Nyarlathotep
• The Picture in the House
• Ex Oblivione
• Sweet Ermengarde
• The Nameless City
• The Quest of Iranon
• The Moon-Bog
• The Outsider
• The Other Gods
• The Music of Erich Zann
• Herbert West—Reanimator
• Hypnos
• What the Moon Brings
• Azathoth
• The Hound
• The Lurking Fear
• The Rats in the Walls
• The Unnamable
• The Festival
• Under the Pyramids
• The Shunned House
• The Horror at Red Hook
• He
• In the Vault
• Cool Air
• The Call of Cthulhu
• Pickman’s Model
• The Silver Key
• The Strange High House in the Mist
• The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
• The Colour out of Space
• The Descendant
• History of the Necronomicon
• The Very Old Folk
• Ibid
• The Dunwich Horror
• The Whisperer in Darkness
• At the Mountains of Madness
• The Shadow over Innsmouth
• The Dreams in the Witch House
• Through the Gates of the Silver Key
• The Thing on the Doorstep
• The Evil Clergyman
• The Book
• The Shadow out of Time
• The Haunter of the Dark
• Appendix: Juvenilia
• The Little Glass Bottle
• The Secret Cave
• The Mystery of the Grave-yard
• The Mysterious Ship [short version]
• The Mysterious Ship [long version]
• Discarded draft of “The Shadow over Innsmouth”
• Supernatural Horror in Literature
• About the Author

Errata and Other Editions

Note that the hardcover edition contains numerous errors. Martin Andersson has kindly provided an errata list for that volume. This book is also available in a leatherbound edition, though its first edition contains the same errors as the hardcover edition. The second leatherbound edition has been corrected using this errata list.

Bibliographic Information

H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction. By H.P. Lovecraft, with an Introduction by S.T. Joshi. New York, NY: Barnes & Noble, Inc.; 2008; ISBN 978-1-4351-0793-9; hardcover, 1120 pages.

Purchasing This Book

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