The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales

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The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales. H. P. Lovecraft

Table of Contents

An Introduction To H. P. Lovecraft

The Outsider

The Rats in the Walls

Pickman’s Model

The Call of Cthulhu

I. THE HORROR IN CLAY

II. THE TALE OF INSPECTOR LEGRASSE

III. THE MADNESS FROM THE SEA

The Dunwich Horror

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

The Whisperer in Darkness

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

The Colour Out of Space

The Haunter of the Dark (DEDICATED TO ROBERT BLOCH)

The Thing on the Doorstep

II

III

IV

V

The Music of Erich Zann

The Lurking Fear. I. THE SHADOW ON THE CHIMNEY

II. A PASSER IN THE STORM

III. WHAT THE RED GLARE MEANT

IV. THE HORROR IN THE EYES

The Picture in the House

The Shadow Over Innsmouth. I

II

III

IV

V

The Shadow Out of Time

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

About the Author

Copyright Acknowledgements

By the same Author

Copyright

About the Publisher

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H. P. Lovecraft Omnibus

Title Page

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During many days in London Capt. Norrys and I presented our facts, conjectures, and legendary anecdotes to five eminent authorities, all men who could be trusted to respect any family disclosures which future explorations might develop. We found most of them little disposed to scoff, but, instead, intensely interested and sincerely sympathetic. It is hardly necessary to name them all, but I may say that they included Sir William Brinton, whose excavations in the Troad excited most of the world in their day. As we all took the train for Anchester I felt myself poised on the brink of frightful revelations, a sensation symbolized by the air of mourning among the many Americans at the unexpected death of the President on the other side of the world.

There now lay revealed such a horror as would have overwhelmed us had we not been prepared. Through a nearly square opening in the tiled floor, sprawling on a flight of stone steps so prodigiously worn that it was little more than an inclined plane at the centre, was a ghastly array of human or semi-human bones. Those which retained their collocation as skeletons showed attitudes of panic fear, and over all were the marks of rodent gnawing. The skulls denoted nothing short of utter idiocy, cretinism, or primitive semi-apedom.

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