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

Del Ray provides an almost definitive collection of Lovecraft's work in three books, this being one of them. It includes a great selection of some of his finest work and is an excellent place to start if you are just starting to read Lovecraft. The introduction, "Heritage of Horror" by Robert Bloch, is an excellent exploration of H. P. Lovecraft's work, as written by one of his own proteges.

Tales included in this volume:

The Rats in the Walls
The Picture in the House
The Outsider
Pickman's Model
In the Vault The Silver Key
The Music of Erich Zann
The Call of Cthulhu
The Dunwich Horror
The Whisperer in the Darkness
The Colour Out of Space
The Haunter of the Dark
The Thing on the Doorstep
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Dreams in the Witch-House
The Shadow Out of Time

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The Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death

This is the second book of the Del Ray collection. The fine introduction by Neil Gaiman ("Concerning Dreams and Nightmares") in itself is almost worth the price of this compendium. This particular volume contains three fragmentary pieces that were never completed, as well as the tales set in the Dreamlands.

Tales included in this volume:

Azathoth
The Descendent
The Thing in the Moonlight
Polaris
Beyond the Wall of Sleep
The Doom that Came to Sarnath
The Statement of Randolph Carter
The Cats of Ulthar
Celephais
From Beyond
Nyarlathotep
The Nameless City
The Other Gods
Ex Oblivione
The Quest for Iranon
The Hound
Hypnos
What the Moon Brings
Pickman's Model
The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath
The Silver Key
The Strange High House in the Mist
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
The Dreams in the Witch-House
Through the Gates of the Silver Key

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The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness

This is the third installment of the Del Ray HPL trio. Introduction by Barbara Hambly and illustrations by John Jude Palencar. Interestingly, this volume contains several of Lovecraft's earliest works, including "The Beast in the Cave", which was written when he was 15 years old. It also includes "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs", the story he ghost-wrote for Harry Houdini.

Tales included in this volume:

The Beast in the Cave
The Alchemist
Poetry of the Gods
The Street
The Transition of Juan Romero
The Book
Dagon
The Tomb
Memory
The White Ship
Arthur Jermyn
The Temple
The Terrible Old Man
The Crawling Chaos
The Tree
The Moon-Bog
Herbert West -- Re-Animator
The Lurking Fear
The Festival
The Unnamable
Imprisoned with the Pharaohs
The Shunned House
He
The Horror at Red Hook
Cool Air
Nathicana
At the Mountains of Madness
In the Walls of Eryx
The Evil Clergyman

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The Annotated H. P. Lovecraft

An excellent volume, edited and introduced by S. T. Joshi. It includes fewer tales than the Del Ray books mentioned above, but each tale is interwoven with historical footnotes and photos. This book is a must for anyone who wants to really study the work of Lovecraft.

Of special note is a section named "Lovecraft on Wierd Fiction", which includes excerpts from Lovecraft's volumous letters.

Tales included in this volume:

The Rats in the Walls
The Colour Out of Space
The Dunwich Horror
At the Mountains of Madness

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More Annotated H. P. Lovecraft

A continuation of The Annotated H. P. Lovecraft, this volume contains more stories, footnotes, and photos. Edited by S. T. Joshi and Peter Cannon.

Tales included in this volume:

The Picture in the House
Herbert West – Reanimator
The Hound
The Shunned House
The Horror at Red Hook
Cool Air
The Call of Cthulhu
Pickman’s Model
The Thing on the Doorstep
The Haunter of the Dark

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Selected Letters 1929-1931, 1932-1934, 1935-1937

Three volumes of letters that can be somewhat diffucult to track down, but are worth having for any research on Lovecraft. Lovecraft wrote over 100,000 letters duing his short life, many of them to other great pulp and horror writers of his day.

There are two more volumes that house the pre-1929 letters, but they have proved to be hard to find. Published by Arkham House.

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Encyclopedia Cthulhiana

By Daniel Harms. Far from being a thorough or academic dictionary of all things Mythos-related, this book is nonetheless a handy reference. It is currently out of print, but a new printing is coming soon. It is also readily available used.