Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre

Following the phenomenal success of Necronomicon, its companion volume brings together Lovecraft’s remaining major stories plus his weird poetry, a number of obscure revisions, and some notable nonfiction, including the seminal critical essay Supernatural Horror in Literature. Gathering together in chronological order the rest of Lovecraft's rarely seen but extraordinary short fiction, this collection includes the entirety of the long-out-of-print collection of 36 sonnets "Fungi from Yoggoth." Howard Phillips Lovecraft died at the age of 47, but in his short life he turned out dozens of stories which changed the face of horror. His extraordinary imagination spawned both the Elder God Cthulhu and his eldritch cohorts, and the strangely compelling town of Innsmouth, all of which feature within these pages. Stephen Jones, one of the world's foremost editors of dark fiction, will complete the Lovecraft story in his extensive afterword, and award-winning artist Les Edwards will provide numerous illustrations for this must-have collection.Contents:- The History of the Necronomicon- The Alchemist- A Reminiscence of Dr Samuel Johnson- The Beast in the Cave- The Po-et's Nightmare- Memory- Despair- The Picture in the House- Beyond the Wall of Sleep- Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme- The White Ship- The House- The Nightmare Lake- Poetry and the Gods (with Anna Helen Crofts)- Nyarlathotep- Polaris- The Street- Ex Oblivione- Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family- The Crawling Chaos (with Winifred Virginia Jackson)- The Terrible Old Man- The Tree- The Tomb- Celephaïs- Hypnos- What the Moon Brings- The Horror at Martin's Beach (with Sonia H. Greene)- The Festival- The Temple- Hallowe'en in a Suburb- The Moon-Bog- He- Festival- The Green Meadow (with Winifred Virginia Jackson)- Nathicana- Two Black Bottles (with Wilfred Blanch Talman)- The Last Test (with Adolphe de Castro)- The Wood- The Ancient Track- The Electric Executioner (with Adolphe de Castro)- Fungi from Yuggoth: . . . 1: The Book . . . 2: The Pursuit . . . 3: The Key . . . 4: Recognition . . . 5: Homecoming . . . 6: The Lamp . . . 7: Zaman's Hill . . . 8: The Port . . . 9: The Courtyard . . . 10: The Pigeon-Flyers . . . 11: The Well . . . 12: The Howler . . . 13: Hesperia . . . 14: Star-Winds . . . 15: Antarktos . . . 16: The Window . . . 17: A Memory . . . 18: The Gardens of Yin . . . 19: The Bells . . . 20: Night-Gaunts . . . 21: Nyarlathotep . . . 22: Azathoth . . . 23: Mirage . . . 24: The Canal . . . 25: St Toads . . . 26: The Familiars . . . 27: The Elder Pharos . . . 28: Expectancy . . . 29: Nostalgia . . . 30: Background . . . 31: The Dweller . . . 32: Alienation . . . 33: Harbour Whistles . . . 34: Recapture . . . 35: Evening Star . . . 36: Continuity- The Trap (with Henry S. Whitehead)- The Other Gods- The Quest of Iranon- The Challenge from Beyond- In a Sequester'd Providence Churchyard Where Once Poe Walk'd- Ibid- Azathoth- The Descendant- The Book- The Messenger- The Evil Clergyman- The Very Old Folk- The Thing in the Moonlight- The Transition of Juan Romero- Supernatural Horror in Literature- Afterword: Lovecraft in Britain By Stephen Jones- Other Collaborations and Revisions