This carefully edited Lovecraft collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of Case of Charles Dexter WardThe Call of CthulhuThe Dunwich HorrorAt The Mountains of MadnessThe TombDagonA Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel JohnsonPolarisMemoryThe White ShipThe Doom That Came to SarnathStatement of Randolph CarterThe StreetTerrible Old ManCats of UltharThe TreeCelephaïsFrom BeyondThe Horror at Red HookThe TempleNyarlathotepPicture in the HouseFacts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His FamilyThe Nameless CityThe Quest of IranonThe Moon BogEx OblivioneThe Other GodsThe OutsiderThe Music of Erich ZannHypnosWhat the Moon BringsHerbert West–ReanimatorThe HoundThe Lurking FearThe Rats in the WallsThe UnnamableThe FestivalThe Shunned HouseHeIn the VaultCool AirPickman's ModelThe Strange High House in the MistThe Silver KeyThe Dream-Quest of Unknown KadathThe Colour out of SpaceThe DescendantThe Very Old FolkIbidThe Whisperer in DarknessThe Shadow Over InnsmouthThe Dreams in the Witch HouseThe Thing on the DoorstepThe BookThe Evil ClergymanThe Shadow out of TimeThe Haunter of the Dark
Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction.
Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.
Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe. See also Howard Phillips Lovecraft.