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H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural: 20 Classic Tales of the Macabre Chosen by the Master of Horror Himself »

Authors: Stephen Jones (Editor), Randy Broecker
ISBN-13: 9781933648019, ISBN-10: 1933648015
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Date Published: August 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Stephen Jones

Stephen Jones is the winner of three World Fantasy Awards, three Bram Stoker Awards, and three International Horror Guild Awards, and is a sixteen-time recipient of the British Fantasy Award. He lives in London.

Book Synopsis

”The reader would do well to remember that it is Lovecraft‘s shadow which overlies almost all of the important horror fiction.”—Stephen King

Publishers Weekly

by the Master Himself, edited by Stephen Jones, includes such gems as Robert Louis Stevenson's "Markheim," H.R. Wakefield's "The Red Lodge" and Arthur Machen's "Novel of the White Powder." Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

	Introduction : supernatural horror in literature
	Foreword : notes on writing weird fiction
	The tale of the German student	1
	Markheim	11
	Who knows?	33
	The invisible eye	49
	The torture by hope	71
	Ms. Found in a bottle	79
	What was it?	93
	The middle toe of the right foot	111
	The turn of the screw	123
	The dead smile	255
	The wind in the Rose-Bush	283
	The yellow wallpaper	305
	The recrudescence of Imray	327
	The hands of Karma (Ingwa-banashi)	343
	The burial of the rats	349
	The red lodge	379
	The captain of the Pole-star	397
	The Villa Desiree	427
	The voice in the night	443
	Novel of the white powder	461