“ Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place. ” ― Rumi
The stories in this book evoke a tracery of evil rarely rivaled in horror writing. They represent the whole evolving trajectory of such notions as Hastur, the King in Yellow, Carcosa, the Yellow Sign, the Black Stone, Yuggoth, and the Lake of Hali. A succ
H. P. Lovecraft was the eerily prescient genius who first electrified readers in Weird Tales magazine. His tales changed the face of horror forever and inspired the bloodcurdling offerings of a new generation. These brilliant dark visionaries forge grisly
Contents:Robert Bloch – The Shambler From The StarsH. P. Lovecraft – The Haunter Of The DarkRobert Bloch – The Shadow From The SteepleRobert Bloch – Notebook Found In A Deserted HouseRamsey Campbell – Cold PrintBrian Lumley – The Sister CityBr
No great talent of this century encountered more opposition to a rightful place in literary esteem than H.P. Lovecraft. Yet no other writer ever gathered a more devoted band of followers determined to give his creations immortality.Today the whole world k
H. P. Lovecraft wrote “The Call of Cthulhu” in 1926, initiating the Cthulhu Mythos, one of the most widely imitated shared-world universes in weird fiction. Even in his lifetime, many other writers added to the Mythos, and after his death hundreds if