Tales

This volume brings together 22 tales, the very best of Howard Phillips Lovecraft's fiction. Early stories such as "The Outsider," "The Music of Erich Zann," "Herbert West - Reanimator," and "The Lurking Fear" demonstrate Lovecraft's uncanny ability to blur the distinction between reality and nightmare, sanity and madness, the human and the non-human. "The Horror at Red Hook" and "He" reveal the fascination and revulsion Lovecraft felt for New York City; "Pickman's Model" uncovers the frightening secret behind an artist's work; "The Rats in the Walls" is a terrifying descent into atavistic horror; and "The Colour Out of Space" explores the eerie impact of a meteorite on a remote Massachusetts valley.The statement of Randolph Carter --The outsider --The music of Erich Zann --Herbert West, reanimator --The lurking fear --The rats in the walls --The shunned house --The horror at Red Hook --He --Cool air --The call of Cthulhu --Pickman's model --The case of Charles Dexter Ward --The colour out of space --The Dunwich horror --The whisperer in darkness --At the mountains of madness --The shadow over Innsmouth --The dreams in the Witch House --The thing on the doorstep --The shadow out of time --The haunter of the dark --Chronology.