H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural by Stephen Jones

Set against such historic events as the assassination of President John F. Now something big is coming-something that is already sowing the seeds of madness and chaos into the psyche of the world-and only the agents of the Human Protection League stand between this rising tide of evil and the enslavement and eventual destruction of the human race itself. Such clandestine cults as the Olde Fellowes and the Esoteric Order of Dagon, who worship a group of ancient deities called the Great Old Ones, are harnessing occult powers to open the doorways to the Dreamscape and other dimensions beyond space and time. In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.

This chilling collection also contains Henry James’ wonderfully atmospheric short novel The Turn of the Screw.įor every fan of modern horror, here is an opportunity to rediscover the origins of the genre with some of most terrifying stories ever imagined.The third volume in the new interconnected trilogy that reveals the origins of “The Lovecraft Squad”-a super-secret worldwide organization dedicated to battling the eldritch monstrosities given form in H. Throughout, Lovecraft acknowledges those authors and stories that he feels are the very finest the horror field has to offer: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, and Arthur Conan Doyle, each prefaced by Lovecraft's own opinions and insights in their work. Lovecraft’s 1927 essay “Supernatural Horror in Literature” traces the evolution of the genre from the early Gothic novels to the work of contemporary American and British authors. Written by arguably the most important horror writer of the twentieth century, H. ”The reader would do well to remember that it is Lovecraft's shadow which overlies almost all of the important horror fiction.” -Stephen King

H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural by Stephen Jones