"Pleasure to me is wonder-the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability." 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. This 800-page jumbo book is the definitive collection for H.P. Lovecraft fans, containing his complete fiction as well as selected collaborations and essays. "That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die." Complete Fiction THE NAMELESS CITY
DAGON
THE CALL OF CTHULHU
AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS
THE SHUNNED HOUSE
BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP
THE DUNWICH HORROR
THE ALCHEMIST
THE LURKING FEAR
MEMORY
AZATHOTH
THE MOON-BOG
THE BEAST IN THE CAVE
NYARLATHOTEP
THE MUSIC OF ERICH ZANN
THE BOOK
THE OTHER GODS
THE CASE OF CHARLES DEXTER WARD
THE OUTSIDER
THE CATS OF ULTHAR
PICKMAN'S MODEL
CELEPHAIS
THE PICTURE IN THE HOUSE
THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE
POLARIS
COOL AIR
THE QUEST OF IRANON
THE RATS IN THE WALLS
THE DESCENDANT
THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME
THE DOOM THAT CAME TO SARNATH
THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH
THE DREAM QUEST OF UNKNOWN KADATH
DREAMS IN THE WITCH-HOUSE
THE SILVER KEY
THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER
THE EVIL CLERGYMAN
THE STRANGE HIGH HOUSE IN THE MIST
EX OBLIVIONE
THE STREET