Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre

Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft

Details

Publisher: Orion Publishing, Gollancz

Page Count: 896 (Necronomicon...), 560 (Eldritch Tales...)

ISBN: 9780575081567 (Necronomicon... hardcover), 9780575081574 (Necronomicon... softcover); 9780575099630 (Eldritch Tales... softcover)

Author(s): H.P. Lovecraft (author), Stephen Jones (editor)

Fiction: (see Contents, below)

Non-Fiction: Introduction(?) and Afterward by Stephen Jones

Summary

Necronomicon Hardback edition by H. P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft's tales of the tentacled Elder God Cthulhu and his pantheon of alien deities were initially written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and '30s. These astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction and cosmic terror that are as powerful today as they were when they were first published.

This handsome leatherbound tome collects together the very best of Lovecraft's tales of terror, including the complete Cthulhu Mythos cycle, just the way they were originally published. It will introduce a whole new generation of readers to Lovecraft's fiction, as well as being a must-buy for those fans who want all his work in a single, definitive, highly attractive volume.

Contents

Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft:

• "Night-Gaunts (poem)"
• "Dagon (fiction)"
• "The Statement of Randolph Carter (fiction)"
• "The Doom that Came to Sarnath (fiction)"
• "The Cats of Ulthar (fiction)"
• "The Nameless City (fiction)"
• "Herbert West–Reanimator (fiction)"
• "The Music of Erich Zann (fiction)"
• "The Lurking Fear (fiction)"
• "The Hound (fiction)"
• "The Rats in the Walls (fiction)"
• "Under the Pyramids (fiction)"
• "The Unnamable (fiction)"
• "In the Vault (fiction)"
• "The Outsider (fiction)"
• "The Horror at Red Hook (fiction)"
• "The Colour Out of Space (fiction)"
• "Pickman's Model (fiction)"
• "The Call of Cthulhu (fiction)"
• "Cool Air (fiction)"
• "The Shunned House (fiction)"
• "The Silver Key (fiction)"
• "The Dunwich Horror (fiction)"
• "The Whisperer in Darkness (fiction)"
• "The Strange High House in the Mist (fiction)"
• "The Dreams in the Witch House (fiction)"
• "From Beyond (fiction)"
• "Through the Gates of the Silver Key (fiction)"
• "At the Mountains of Madness (fiction)"
• "The Shadow Over Innsmouth (fiction)"
• "The Shadow Out of Time (fiction)"
• "The Haunter of the Dark (fiction)"
• "The Thing on the Doorstep (fiction)"
• "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (fiction)"
• "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (fiction)"
• "To a Dreamer (poem)"
• Afterword: A Gentleman of Providence, by Stephen Jones

Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre:

• "History of the Necronomicon (essay)"
• "The Alchemist (fiction)"
• "A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson (fiction)"
• "The Beast in the Cave (fiction)"
• "The Poe-et's Nightmare (poem)"
• "Memory (fiction)"
• "Despair (poem)"
• "The Picture in the House (fiction)"
• "Beyond the Wall of Sleep (fiction)"
• "Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme (poem)"
• "The White Ship (fiction)"
• "The House (poem)"
• "The Nightmare Lake (poem)"
• "Poetry and the Gods (fiction)" (with Anna Helen Crofts)
• "Nyarlathotep (fiction)"
• "Polaris (fiction)"
• "The Street (fiction)"
• "Ex Oblivione (fiction)"
• "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (fiction)"
• "The Crawling Chaos (fiction)" (with Winifred Virginia Jackson)
• "The Terrible Old Man (fiction)"
• "The Tree (fiction)"
• "The Tomb (fiction)"
• "Celephaïs (fiction)"
• "Hypnos (fiction)"
• "What the Moon Brings (fiction)"
• "The Horror at Martin's Beach (fiction)" (with Sonia H. Greene)
• "The Festival (fiction)"
• "The Temple (fiction)"
• "Hallowe'en in a Suburb (fiction)"
• "The Moon-Bog (fiction)"
• "He (fiction)"
• "Festival (fiction)"
• "The Green Meadow (fiction)" (with Winifred Virginia Jackson)
• "Nathicana (poem)"
• "Two Black Bottles (fiction)" (with Wilfred Blanch Talman)
• "The Last Test (fiction)" (with Adolphe de Castro)
• "The Wood (poem)"
• "The Ancient Track (poem)"
• "The Electric Executioner (fiction)" (with Adolphe de Castro)
• "Fungi from Yuggoth (poem)"
• "The Trap (fiction)" (with Henry S. Whitehead)
• "The Other Gods (fiction)"
• "The Quest of Iranon (fiction)"
• "The Challenge from Beyond (fiction)"
• "In a Sequester'd Providence Churchyard Where Once Poe Walk'd (poem)"
• "Ibid (fiction)"
• "Azathoth (fiction)"
• "The Descendant (fragment)"
• "The Book (fragment)"
• "The Messenger (poem)"
• "The Evil Clergyman (fragment)"
• "The Very Old Folk (fragment)"
• "The Thing in the Moonlight (fiction)" (based on "The Thing in the Moonlight (fragment)")
• "The Transition of Juan Romero (fiction)"
• "Supernatural Horror in Literature (fiction)"
• (Afterword: Lovecraft in Britain by Stephen Jones)
• (Other Collaborations and Revisions) (list?)

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