Book

H.P. Lovecraft's book of the supernatural : 20 classics of the macabre, chosen by the master of horror himself / edited by Stephen Jones ; illustrated by Randy Broecker.

Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 (Added Author). Jones, Stephen, 1953- (Added Author). Broecker, Randy. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 1933648015
ISBN: 9781933648019
Physical Description: xxiv, 486 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition: First Pegasus Books edition.
Publisher: New York : Pegasus Books, [2006]
Copyright: ©2006

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction : supernatural horror in literature / Stephen Jones -- Foreword : notes on writing weird fiction / H.P. Lovecraft -- The tale of the German student / Washington Irving -- Markheim / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Who knows? / Guy de Maupassant -- The invisible eye / Erckmann-Chatrian -- The torture by hope / Villiers de l'Isle Adam -- Ms. found in a bottle / Edgar Allan Poe -- What was it? / Fitz James O'Brien -- The middle toe of the right foot / Ambrose Bierce -- The turn of the screw / Henry James -- The dead smile -- F. Marion Crawford -- The wind in the rose-bush / Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The recrudescence of Imray / Rudyard Kipling -- The hands of karma (Ingwa-banashi) / Lafcadio Hearn -- The burial of the rats / Bram Stoker -- The red lodge / H.R. Wakefield -- The captain of the Pole-Star / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Villa Dširě / May Sinclair -- The voice in the night / William Hope Hodgson -- Novel of the white powder / Arthur Machen.