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B&n Library of Essential Reading

2 total works

Cover of At the Mountains of Madness (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
Multi-eyed protoplasmic entities, flesh-eating ghouls, animate corpses, time-travelling body snatchers, and, yes, huge albino penguins. These are some of the bizarre creatures that populate the universe created by American horror author H. P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft has influenced many of today's most famous writers and artists, including master of contemporary horror fiction Stephen King, Academy Award-nominated director Guillermo Del Toro, and artist and Alien set-designer H. R. Giger. This collection includes three selections from the "Cthulhu Mythos": the novella "At the Mountains of Madness", which is often considered Lovecraft's masterpiece; "The Thing on the Doorstep"; and "The Shadow Out of Time". While including all the chilling cyclopean vistas, monstrous abominations and appalling transformations that readers have come to expect from Lovecraft, this title also showcases his fantasy writing in stories such as "The Cats of Ulthar", "The Silver Key", and notably "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath".

Cover of Call of Cthulhu and Other Dark Tales (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)
The twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale', Stephen King about H. P. Lovecraft. H. P. Lovecraft's fiction reveals a universe that is vaster, darker, and stranger than anything previously imagined. His cosmic horror reflects a peculiarly modern philosophical belief system in which human beings are regarded as insignificant in light of the vastness of time and space. The especially Lovecraftian twist on this apocalyptic premise is that it is alien forces and powers at work in the universe that possess the potential for the ultimate destruction of mankind. These stories will introduce readers to Lovecraft's pantheon of gods, his characteristic themes, his fictitious New England geography and, of course, the "Necronomicon", Lovecraft's famous invented book of occult secrets.