Country Tales of Arkham, Massachusetts and Beyond

By Howard Phillips Lovecraft and John Gregory Betancourt

Celebrate the works of H.P. Lovecraft with this mammoth volume, collecting all of the master's stories of Arkham, Massachusetts and the Cthulhu Mythos in one place. Included are not only all of the well-known tales, but a few of Lovecraft's revisions (stories he was paid to rewrite, which did not originally carry his name) that are set in the same universe. Here are 28 stories, a long poem, and an essay by Lovecraft on the Necronomicon...more than 1,100 page in total!

Included are:

INTRODUCTION, by John Gregory Betancourt

DAGON

THE PICTURE IN THE HOUSE

NYARLATHOTEP

THE NAMELESS CITY

HERBERT WEST—REANIMATOR

AZATHOTH

THE HOUND

THE UNNAMABLE

THE FESTIVAL

THE STRANGE HIGH HOUSE IN THE MIST

THE CALL OF CTHULHU

THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE

THE DREAM-QUEST OF UNKNOWN KADATH

THE SILVER KEY

THE DUNWICH HORROR

THE CURSE OF YIG

THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS

THE MAN OF STONE

THE HORROR IN THE MUSEUM

THE DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE

THE THING ON THE DOORSTEP

THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME

OUT OF THE AEONS

AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH

THE HAUNTER OF THE DARK

THE TREE ON THE HILL

THE MOUND

FUNGI FROM YUGGOTH (poem)

THE HISTORY OF THE NECRONOMICON (essay)

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Release date: Aug 5, 2020
• ISBN: 9781479452316

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author of science fiction and horror stories. Born in Providence, Rhode Island to a wealthy family, he suffered the loss of his father at a young age. Raised with his mother’s family, he was doted upon throughout his youth and found a paternal figure in his grandfather Whipple, who encouraged his literary interests. He began writing stories and poems inspired by the classics and by Whipple’s spirited retellings of Gothic tales of terror. In 1902, he began publishing a periodical on astronomy, a source of intellectual fascination for the young Lovecraft. Over the next several years, he would suffer from a series of illnesses that made it nearly impossible to attend school. Exacerbated by the decline of his family’s financial stability, this decade would prove formative to Lovecraft’s worldview and writing style, both of which depict humanity as cosmologically insignificant. Supported by his mother Susie in his attempts to study organic chemistry, Lovecraft eventually devoted himself to writing poems and stories for such pulp and weird-fiction magazines as Argosy, where he gained a cult following of readers. Early stories of note include “The Alchemist” (1916), “The Tomb” (1917), and “Beyond the Wall of Sleep” (1919). “The Call of Cthulu,” originally published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928, is considered by many scholars and fellow writers to be his finest, most complex work of fiction. Inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Lord Dunsany, Lovecraft became one of the century’s leading horror writers whose influence remains essential to the genre.

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