Best of H.P.Lovecraft - introduction by Robert Bloch - cover artist Michael Whelan

BIBLIOGRAPHY

TITLE: The Best of H.P. Lovecraft Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre

AUTHOR: H.P. Lovecraft 1890-1937

TYPE: Collection

PUBLISHER: Ballantine/Del Rey

COVER PRICE: $13.95

ISBN: 0-345-35080-4

PAGES: 375

EDITION: 30 printing

COVER ARTIST: Michael Whelan

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NOTATION: Introduction by Robert Bloch

INDEX: 0097 - Best of H.P. Lovecraft - 001 - HPL – IFB

 

QUOTE: “Yew want to know what the reel horror is, hey? Wal, it”s this- it ain’t what thern fish devils haz done, but it’s what they’re a-goin’ to do! They’re a-bringin’ things up aout o’ whar they come from into the taown….ever hear tell of a shoggoth?” ...….. from The Shadow Over Innsmouth by Howard P. Lovecraft

 

CONTENTS:

1 • Introduction: Heritage of Horror (The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre) • (1982) • essay by Robert Bloch

15 • The Rats in the Walls • (1924) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft

30 • The Picture in the House • (1924) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft

37 • The Outsider • (1921) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft

42 • Pickman's Model • (1927) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft

52 • In the Vault • (1925) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft

59 • The Silver Key • [Randolph Carter] • (1929) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft

69 • The Music of Erich Zann • (1922) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft

76 • The Call of Cthulhu • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1928) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft

100 • The Dunwich Horror • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1929) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft

134 • The Whisperer in Darkness • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1931) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft

185 • The Colour Out of Space • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1927) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft

207 • The Haunter of the Dark • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1936) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft

225 • The Thing on the Doorstep • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1937) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft

246 • The Shadow Over Innsmouth • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1936) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft

296 • The Dreams in the Witch-House • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1933) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft

325 • The Shadow Out of Time • [Cthulhu Mythos] • (1936) • novella by H. P. Lovecraft

 

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