Tales

This volume brings together 22 tales, the very best of Howard Phillips Lovecraft's fiction. Early stories such as "The Outsider," "The Music of Erich Zann," "Herbert West - Reanimator," and "The Lurking Fear" demonstrate Lovecraft's uncanny ability to blur the distinction between reality and nightmare, sanity and madness, the human and the non-human. "The Horror at Red Hook" and "He" reveal the fascination and revulsion Lovecraft felt for New York City; "Pickman's Model" uncovers the frightening secret behind an artist's work; "The Rats in the Walls" is a terrifying descent into atavistic horror; and "The Colour Out of Space" explores the eerie impact of a meteorite on a remote Massachusetts valley.

The statement of Randolph Carter --

The outsider --

The music of Erich Zann --

Herbert West, reanimator --

The lurking fear --

The rats in the walls --

The shunned house --

The horror at Red Hook --

He --

Cool air --

The call of Cthulhu --

Pickman's model --

The case of Charles Dexter Ward --

The colour out of space --

The Dunwich horror --

The whisperer in darkness --

At the mountains of madness --

The shadow over Innsmouth --

The dreams in the Witch House --

The thing on the doorstep --

The shadow out of time --

The haunter of the dark --

Chronology.