Collected here are 14 tales of terror and the supernatural by one of the greatest masters of all time. The Alchemist The Beast in the Cave Memory The Picture in the House Beyond the Wall of Sleep Dagon The White Ship The Statement of Randolph Carter The Doom That Came to Sarnath Poetry and the Gods Nyarlathotep The Cats of Ulthar Polaris The Street

H. P. Lovecraft's generous tutelage of younger literary colleagues earned him their lifelong devotion and admiration. Few profited more by his assistance than Robert Bloch, who went on to become the celebrated author of Psycho and other classic works of horror and suspense. Establishing a correspondence with Lovecraft when he was sixteen, Bloch learned so much about the craft of writing-and about other matters-that he later stated: "Lovecraft was my university."
This volume brings together Lovecraft's complete extant correspondence with Bloch as well as with such other young...

From the Master of Cosmic Horror ...

Supernatural Horror in Literature, H.P. Lovecraft's "master's thesis," is a tour de force of literary analysis, tracing the origins of the horror genre back to its inception and beyond. In it, Lovecraft follows the development of horror-lit down through the centuries--from Horace Walpole, through Mary Wollstonecraft and Bram Stoker, to Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Machen, and on into his own time.