H.P. Lovecraft, with his expansive imagination, brings forth a unique collection of spine-tingling horrors in this volume. The opening of the narrative sets the tone with a demonic and unannounced arrival: “The thing came abruptly and unannounced; a demon, rat-like, scurrying from pits remote and unimaginable, a hellish panting and stifled grunting, and then from that opening beneath the chimney a burst of multitudinous and leprous life – a loathsome night-spawned flood of organic corruption more devastatingly hideous than the blackest conjurations of mortal madness and morbidity.”

This collection includes classics such as ‘The Picture in the House’, ‘The Music of Erich Zann’, and ‘The Rats in the Walls’. Additionally, it features rare examples of Lovecraft’s earliest weird fiction and previously unpublished material. Lovecraft’s creation of the Cthulhu Mythos continues to influence modern authors and remains a cornerstone of supernatural literature.

The stories included in this volume are:

– The Lurking Fear
– The Beast in the Cave
– The Alchemist
– The Tomb
– Beyond the Wall of Sleep
– Memory
– The Transition of Juan Romero
– The White Ship
– The Terrible Old Man
– Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
– The Street
– The Temple
– The Tree
– From Beyond
– Nyarlathotep
– The Picture in the House
– Ex Oblivione
– The Quest of Iranon
– The Moon-Bog
– The Outsider
– The Music of Erich Zann
– Hypnos
– Azathoth
– What the Moon Brings
– The Rats in the Walls
– He
– In the Vault
– Cool Air
– The Descendant
– The Very Old Folk
– The Book
– The Evil Clergyman