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H. P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror
| Author: | Stephen Jones |
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Robinson, 1994 Original English publication, 1993 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Horror |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Lovecraftian/Cthulhu Mythos Weird (Horror) |
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Synopsis
A best of the best anthology that Lovecraft himself appreciated and recommended.
Contents:
- 1 - Supernatural Horror in Literature - [Supernatural Horror in Literature] - (1927) - essay by H. P. Lovecraft
- 66 - The Signalman - (1866) - shortstory by Charles Dickens
- 78 - The House and the Brain - (1859) - novelette by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (variant of The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain)
- 113 - The Body Snatcher - (1884) - shortstory by Robert Louis Stevenson
- 130 - The Spider - (1915) - novelette by Hanns Heinz Ewers (trans. of Die Spinne 1908)
- 151 - The Foot of the Mummy - (1882) - shortstory by Théophile Gautier (trans. of Le pied de momie 1840)
- 161 - The Horla - [Le Horla - 2] - (1890) - novelette by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887)
- 183 - The Fall of the House of Usher - (1839) - shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe
- 202 - The Damned Thing - (1893) - shortstory by Ambrose Bierce
- 211 - The Upper Berth - (1885) - novelette by F. Marion Crawford
- 229 - The Yellow Sign - [The King In Yellow] - (1895) - novelette by Robert W. Chambers
- 248 - The Shadows on the Wall - (1903) - shortstory by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman [as by Mary E. Wilkins]
- 263 - The Dead Valley - (1895) - shortstory by Ralph Adams Cram
- 271 - Fishhead - (1913) - shortstory by Irvin S. Cobb
- 282 - Lukundoo - (1907) - shortstory by Edward Lucas White
- 295 - The Double Shadow - [Poseidonis] - (1933) - shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith
- 306 - The Mark of the Beast - (1890) - shortstory by Rudyard Kipling
- 318 - Negotium Perambulans - (1922) - shortstory by E. F. Benson
- 333 - Mrs. Lunt - (1926) - shortstory by Hugh Walpole [as by Sir Hugh Walpole]
- 346 - The Hog - [Carnacki (William Hope Hodgson)] - (1947) - novelette by William Hope Hodgson
- 385 - The Great God Pan - (1894) - novella by Arthur Machen
- 434 - Count Magnus - (1904) - shortstory by M. R. James
- 448 - Lovecraft and the 'Literature of Cosmic Fear' - (1993) - essay by Stephen Jones
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