H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural 1.0.3

H.P. LOVECRAFT’S BOOK OF THE SUPERNATURAL: 20 CLASSIC TALES OF THE MACABRE CHOSEN BY THE MASTER HIMSELF

Edited by Stephen Jones

“For anyone interested even faintly in good horror writing, what we have here is pure gold: Lovecraft’s own selection of the best the genre has to offer, along with his comments on the individual stories. Talk about the horse’s mouth! This book is long overdue.” --Peter Straub

“Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me.”

--Stephen King

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.”

--H.P. Lovecraft

For the first time in book form, World Fantasy Award-winning editor Stephen Jones proudly presents twenty classic tales recommended by H.P. Lovecraft in his famous essay, “Supernatural Horror in Literature.”

One of the most important writers of the twentieth century, H.P. Lovecraft himself opens this collection with a fascinating foreword in which he gives his own advice on how to successfully write weird fiction. And each story is prefaced by Lovecraft’s own opinions and insights into the work.

Every fan of modern horror will find here an opportunity to rediscover the roots of the genre with some of the most terrifying stories ever imagined.

CONTENTS:

“The Tale of the German Student” by Washington Irving

“Markheim” by Robert Louis Stevenson

“Who Knows?” by Guy de Maupassant

“The Invisible Eye” by Erckmann-Chatrian

“The Torture by Hope” by Villiers de l’Isle Adam

“Ms. Found in a Bottle” by Edgar Allan Poe

“What Was It?” by Fitz James O’Brien

“The Middle Toe of the Right Foot” by Ambrose Bierce

“The Turn of the Screw” by Henry James

“The Dead Smile” by F. Marion Crawford

“The Wind in the Rose-Bush” by Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman

“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“The Recrudescence of Imray” by Rudyard Kipling

“The Hands of Karma (Ingwa-banashi)” by Lafcadio Hearn

“The Burial of the Rats” by Bram Stoker

“The Red Lodge” by H.R. Wakefield

“The Captain of the Pole-Star” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“The Villa Désirée” by May Sinclair

“The Voice in the Night” by William Hope Hodgson

“Novel of the White Powder” by Arthur Machen

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