The Classic H. P. Lovecraft Collection

by H. P. Lovecraft

Overview

H. P. Lovecraft's magnificent short stories are brought together here in this incredible hardback collection, spectacularly presented with silver cover accents and illustrated page edges.

Since his stories began to appear in magazines such as Weird Tales in the 1920s and 30s, H. P. Lovecraft and his vivid imagination have been entertaining generations of readers with tales that both drew upon and pushed the boundaries of the genres of horror and science fiction.

This collection includes 71 stories by the master of weird fantasy and strange horror fiction. The stories include well-known gems such as 'The Call of Cthulhu', 'The Case of Charles Dexter Ward' and 'The Color Out of Space' as well as lesser-known works. The stories are in chronological order, thus allowing the reader to explore how Lovecraft's work developed over the course of his writing career.

Presented in a stunning gift edition with printed page edges and full-colour endpaper illustrations, this collection provides a wonderful way to enjoy these otherworldly tales.

ABOUT THE SERIES: The Arcturus Pulp Classics series brings together classic short story collections from across the fantasy, science fiction, and horror genres, strikingly presented in hardback gift editions with silver cover accents and full-color page edges.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781398860889
Publisher:	Arcturus Publishing Limited
Publication date:	11/04/2025
Series:	Arcturus Pulp Classics
Pages:	928
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

H. P. Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in the US in 1890. Influenced by various literary interests, first in the Tales of Arabian Nights, then Greek mythology and also gothic tales told to him by his grandfather, Lovecraft mixed these together with an interest in science and gave voice to his ideas in a series of dark tales of fantasy and horror. He suffered from ill health, at one point having a nervous breakdown, and he was unable to attend university, which was a huge disappointment to him. He died in 1937. But his legacy lives on in a body of work that has inspired countless films, TV series, board games and toys, as well as many other writers.

Table of Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
The Tomb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Dagon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Sweet Ermengarde or, The Heart of a Country Girl . . . . . . . . . . 18
Polaris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Beyond the Wall of Sleep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Old Bugs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
The Transition of Juan Romero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
The White Ship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
The Doom that Came to Sarnath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
The Statement of Randolph Carter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
The Terrible Old Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
The Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
The Cats of Ulthar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
The Temple . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and his Family . . . . 85
The Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Celephaïs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
From Beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Nyarlathotep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
The Picture in the House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Ex Oblivione . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
The Nameless City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
The Quest of Iranon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
The Moon-Bog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
The Outsider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
The Other Gods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
The Music of Erich Zann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Herbert West-Reanimator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Hypnos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
What the Moon Brings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Azathoth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
The Hound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
The Lurking Fear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
The Rats in the Walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
The Unnameable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
The Festival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
The Shunned House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
The Horror at Red Hook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
He . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
In the Vault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
The Descendant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Cool Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
The Call of Cthulhu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Pickman's Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
The Silver Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
The Strange High House in the Mist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
The Dream-Quest of the Unknown Kadath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
The Color out of Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539
The Very Old Folk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561
The History of the Necronomicon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567
Ibid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569
The Dunwich Horror . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573
The Whisperer in Darkness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608
At the Mountains of Madness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660
The Shadow over Innsmouth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 741
The Dreams in the Witch House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 791
The Thing on the Doorstep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819
The Evil Clergyman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 840
The Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 844
The Shadow out of Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .847
The Haunter of the Dark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 896