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

Howard Phillips ‘H. P.’ Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction. Stephen King called Lovecraft ‘the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.’ Lovecraft’s readership was limited during his life, but his reputation has grown over the decades, and he is now regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century. According to Joyce Carol Oates, Lovecraft – as with Edgar Allan Poe in the 19th century – has exerted ‘an incalculable influence on succeeding generations of writers of horror fiction’. This is a collection of his very best work.