false 5069522 1 This omnibus collects for the first time in a single volume all of Lovecraft’s groundbreaking fiction: “The Call of Cthulhu,” “The Dreams in the Witch House,” “The Haunter of the Dark,” “At the Mountains of Madness,” “The Shadow out of Time,” “The Shadow over Innsmouth,” the full-length novels The Case of Charles Dexter Ward and The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, and many others. In the 1920s and ‘30s, H.P. Lovecraft pioneered a new type of weird fiction that fused elements of supernatural horror with the concepts of visionary science fiction. Lovecraft’s tales of cosmic horror revolutionized modern horror fiction and earned him the reputation as the most influential American writer of weird tales since Edgar Allan Poe. 5136187 10 2008 H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction total:35|5:25|4:6|3:3|2:0|1:1| 35 159 83 10 0 2 false false Thu Jan 01 11:56:25 -0800 2009 Mon Jun 22 06:17:20 -0700 2009 NB! At the Mountains of Madness is on the '1001books you must read before you die' list and is rated individually below. See below for comments to the individual stories.

The Beast in the Cave
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I've known of Lovecraft for quite some time, but somehow had never gotten around to reading more than two short stories of his until several months ago, when I figured it was time to see what all the fuss was about. I found o...more...]]> 0 1 false false Wed Nov 19 09:15:28 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 19 09:33:24 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Dec 03 08:18:09 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 08:21:29 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 16 10:03:27 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 11:18:30 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jun 17 13:23:19 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 13:23:19 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Sun May 17 19:53:19 -0700 2009 Thu Jan 22 18:36:47 -0800 2009 Sun May 17 19:53:19 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 25 17:05:55 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 25 17:07:22 -0700 2008
1000+ pages.

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