Dagon and Other Macabre Tales (The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus #2)

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STEP INTO A NIGHTMARE WORLD OF HELLISH HORROR... Crawling, clawing, sliming horror, seeping from the night-tipped pen of that Grand Master of heart-stopping supernatural terror - H.P. LOVECRAFT Sample a dark universe peopled with gods best forgotten and strange races best left undiscovered. Shudder in the dank breath of an ages-old evil blowing icily from the dusk-shrouded eons of a time before history. Savour, in this classic collection of masterpieces of the weird and eerie, the grave-fresh tang of total fear. Here is horror to set your skin crawling from your spine's base to your scalp - and back again. A real collector's piece for connoisseurs of the unusual...lovers of the macabre, the sinister and the uncanny, take note.- The Guardian Cover illustration by Tim White. Content: Introduction, by August Derleth --Dagon --The Tomb --Polaris --Beyond the Wall of Sleep --The Doom that came to Sarnath --The White Ship --Arthur Jermyn --The Cats of Ulthar --Celephais --From Beyond --The Temple --The Tree --The Moon-bog --The Nameless City --The Other Gods --The Quest of Iranon --Herbert West - Reanimator --The Hound --Hypnos --The Festival --The Unnamable --Imprisoned with the Pharaohs --He --The Horror at Red Hook --The Strange High House in the Mist --In the Walls of Eryx --The Evil Clergyman Early Tales --The Beast in the Cave --The Alchemist --Poetry and the Gods --The Street --The Transition of Juan Romero Fragments --Azathoth --The Descendant --The Book --The Thing in the Moonlight --Supernatural Horror in Literature (less)