The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre

The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre
	Cover of first edition
Author	H. P. Lovecraft
Cover artist	Michael Whelan
Language	English
Series	Ballantine's Classic Library of Science Fiction
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Del Rey/Ballantine
Publication date	1982
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (paperback)
Pages	375
ISBN	0-345-29468-8
OCLC	472780994
Preceded by	The Best of James Blish
Followed by	The Best of John Brunner

The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre is a collection of stories by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was first published in trade paperback by Del Rey/Ballantine in October 1982 as a volume in its Classic Library of Science Fiction, and reprinted in September 1988 and April 1995, with an ebook edition issued in November. 2002.^[1]

Summary

The book contains sixteen short works of fiction by the author, together with an introduction by Robert Bloch.^[1]

"Introduction: Heritage of Horror" (Robert Bloch)
"The Rats in the Walls" (from Weird Tales, Mar. 1924)
"The Picture in the House" (from The National Amateur, Jul. 1919)
"The Outsider" (from Weird Tales, Apr. 1926)
"Pickman's Model" (from Weird Tales, Oct. 1927)
"In the Vault" (from The Tryout, Nov. 1925)
"The Silver Key" (from Weird Tales, Jan. 1929)
"The Music of Erich Zann" (from The National Amateur, Mar. 1922)
"The Call of Cthulhu" (from Weird Tales, Feb. 1928)
"The Dunwich Horror" (from Weird Tales, Apr. 1929)
"The Whisperer in Darkness" (from Weird Tales, Aug. 1931)
"The Colour Out of Space" (from Amazing Stories, Sep. 1927)
"The Haunter of the Dark" (from Weird Tales, Dec. 1936)
"The Thing on the Doorstep" (from Weird Tales, Jan. 1937)
"The Shadow Over Innsmouth" (from The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Apr. 1936)
"The Dreams in the Witch-House" (from Weird Tales, Jul. 1933)
"The Shadow Out of Time" (from Astounding Stories, Jun. 1936)

Reception

The book was reviewed by S. T. Joshi in Crypt of Cthulhu #11, Candlemas 1983, Baird Searles in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, February 1983, and David E. Schultz in Lovecraft Studies #8 Spring 1984.^[1]

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Short stories	"The Beast in the Cave" "The Alchemist" "The Tomb" "Dagon" "A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson" "Polaris" "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" "Memory" "Old Bugs" "The Transition of Juan Romero" "The White Ship" "The Street" "The Doom That Came to Sarnath" "The Statement of Randolph Carter" "The Terrible Old Man" "The Tree" "The Cats of Ulthar" "The Temple" "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family" "Celephaïs" "From Beyond" "Nyarlathotep" "The Picture in the House" "Ex Oblivione" "Sweet Ermengarde" "The Nameless City" "The Quest of Iranon" "The Moon-Bog" "The Outsider" "The Other Gods" "The Music of Erich Zann" "Herbert West–Reanimator" "Hypnos" "What the Moon Brings" "Azathoth" "The Hound" "The Lurking Fear" "The Rats in the Walls" "The Unnamable" "The Festival" "The Shunned House" "The Horror at Red Hook" "He" "In the Vault" "Cool Air" "The Call of Cthulhu" "Pickman's Model" "The Silver Key" "The Strange High House in the Mist" "The Colour Out of Space" "The Descendant" "History of the Necronomicon" "The Very Old Folk" "Ibid" "The Dunwich Horror" "The Dreams in the Witch House" "The Thing on the Doorstep" "The Evil Clergyman" "The Book" "The Haunter of the Dark"
Novellas	The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath The Whisperer in Darkness At the Mountains of Madness The Shadow over Innsmouth The Shadow Out of Time
Novels	The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Collaborations	"The Green Meadow" "Poetry and the Gods" "The Crawling Chaos" "The Horror at Martin's Beach" "Under the Pyramids" "The Curse of Yig" The Mound "Medusa's Coil" "The Horror in the Museum" "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" "Out of the Aeons" "The Tree on the Hill" "Till A' the Seas" "In the Walls of Eryx"
Poetry	Fungi from Yuggoth
Essays	The Cancer of Superstition "Supernatural Horror in Literature" To Quebec and the Stars Autobiography: Some Notes on a Nonentity
Locations	Arkham Lovecraft Country R'lyeh
Characters	Abdul Alhazred Herbert West Randolph Carter Harley Warren
Deities	Azathoth Cthulhu Nyarlathotep Shub-Niggurath Hastur Dagon
Books about	H. P. Lovecraft: A Life H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia Lovecraft: A Biography Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos
Themes/Concepts	Cosmicism Cthulhu Mythos Lovecraftian horror Necronomicon
Lovecraft Circle	August Derleth Clark Ashton Smith Robert Bloch Robert E. Howard Frank Belknap Long
Legacy	Lovecraft studies Works influenced by the Cthulhu Mythos H. P. Lovecraft (band) H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society Adaptations Lovecraft (crater) Cthulhu Macula
Related	Aklo Dream Cycle Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown (documentary) Sonia Greene (wife) The Thing in the Moonlight
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