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By H. P. Lovecraft

ISBN-10: 0307547906

ISBN-13: 9780307547903

"The oldest and most powerful emotion of mankind is worry, and the oldest and most powerful type of worry is worry of the unknown."
--H. P. LOVECRAFT, "Supernatural Horror in Literature"

Howard Phillips Lovecraft without end replaced the face of horror, myth, and technological know-how fiction with a notable sequence of news as influential because the works of Poe, Tolkien, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. His chilling mythology proven a gateway among the identified universe and an historic size of otherworldly terror, whose unspeakable denizens and huge landscapes--dread Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth, the Plateau of Leng, the Mountains of Madness--have earned him an enduring position within the background of the macabre.

In stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, a pantheon of horror and fantasy's best authors pay tribute to the grasp of the macabre with a suite of unique tales set within the fearsome Lovecraft tradition:

¸ the decision of Cthulhu via H. P. Lovecraft: The napping monster-gods go back to the area of mortals.
¸ computer present in a abandoned condo by way of Robert Bloch: A lone farmboy chronicles his final stand opposed to a hungering backwoods evil.
¸ chilly Print by means of Ramsey Campbell: An avid reader of forbidden books unearths a treasure trove of lethal volumes--available for a bloodcurdling price.
¸ The Freshman by means of Philip José Farmer: A scholar of the black arts gets an schooling in horror at infamous Miskatonic University.

PLUS EIGHTEEN extra SPINE-TINGLING TALES!

From the alternate Paperback version.

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But a buck a week for reading about how Kennedy was doing in the primaries and whether or not Floyd Patterson would win in June? With maybe Blondie and Dick Tracy thrown in for good measure? His mom or Mr. Biderman down at Home Town Real Estate might believe that, but Bobby didn’t. Ted was still rubbing his eyes, his hand hovering over his narrow 47 STEPHEN KING nose like a spider. ” Bobby asked. His voice came out sounding strangely flat, like his mom’s voice when he’d promised to pick up his room and she came in at the end of the day to find the job still undone.

He hardly heard Chet Huntley and David Brinkley gabbling the evening news. Ted was right about the book; it was a corker. The words seemed okay to him, too, although he supposed he didn’t have a lot of experience just yet. I’d like to write a story like this, he thought as he finally closed the book and flopped down on the couch to watch Sugarfoot. I wonder if I ever could. Maybe. Maybe so. Someone had to write stories, after all, just like someone had to fix the pipes when they froze or change the street28 HEARTS IN ATLANTIS lights in Commonwealth Park when they burned out.

That she would go to the mat with him on the subject if that was his pleasure.

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