The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales

"The twentieth century horror story's dark and baroque prince" -- Stephen King "Dark, weird tales about tentacled beasts, ancient artifacts that ooze unidentifiable slime and baby-eating cultists eager to bring about the end of the world" New York Times "Lovecraft found a voice that was profoundly his own -- and brought horror into the 20th century. His best stories sent the gothic into collision with science fiction and offered a bleak vision of a world whose thin veneer of civilization was being stripped away by an implacable zeal for knowledge" Washington Post "The founding father of what has become known as "weird fiction"...Lovecraft has nothing in common with Anita Brookner" Daily Telegraph