Weird and Horrific Stories

H. P. Lovecraft

• Publisher: Mint Editions
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781513218540
• eBook ISBN: 9781513217543
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Science Fiction
• Index: Literature

Weird and Horrific Stories (2021) collects some of H. P. Lovecraft's finest early work. Although his reputation as one of the world's greatest writers of horror and weird fiction remains undisputed, much of his writing was published in such pulp literary magazines as Argosy, the United Amateur, and Weird Tales, making it difficult to find proper collections. Weird and Horrific Stories attempts to bridge this gap for modern readers, bringing them face to face with some of Lovecraft's most terrifying creations.

"The Alchemist, " originally written in 1908 and published in 1916, is the story of Count Antoine, whose ancestors were cursed after killing a fearsome dark wizard named Michel Mauvais. Every generation since has seen the death of its male members at the age of thirty-two, an age fast approaching for Antoine. Lonely and terrified, he sets out to put an end to the cycle of death and suffering. "Dagon, " which appeared in The Vagrant in 1919, is a story told by a morphine-addicted man who survived a terrible shipwreck during the First World War. In "The Cats of Ulthar, " published in 1920, an unnamed narrator recounts the legal history of the town of Ulthar, which once was the home to a sadistic couple known for their obsession with torturing and killing housecats. Weird and Horrific Stories collects over thirty stories written at the height of Lovecraft's career.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• A Note From the Publisher
• The Alchemist
• A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson
• The Beast in the Cave
• The White Ship
• Memory
• Dagon
• Beyond the Wall of Sleep
• The Statement of Randolph Carter
• Polaris
• The Picture in the House
• Nyarlathotep
• The Doom That Came to Sarnath
• The Cats of Ulthar
• The Tree
• The Terrible Old Man
• The Nameless City
• Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
• Ex Oblivione
• The Crawling Chaos—In collaboration with Winifred V. Jackson
• The Tomb
• The Music of Erich Zann
• Celephaïs
• The Horror at Martin’s Beach—In collaboration with Sonia Greene
• What the Moon Brings
• Imprisoned with the Pharaohs—In collaboration with Harry Houdini
• Hypnos
• The Rats in the Walls
• The Hound
• The Temple—Manuscript Found on the Coast of Yucatan
• In the Vault
• The Festival
• The Outsider
• The Unnamable
• The Call of Cthulu
• The Lurking Fear
• Herbert West—Reanimator
• A Note About the Author
• A Note from the Publisher