Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Vol. I

Cthulhu, the vast, terrible entity from beyond time and space who waits brooding in his cyclopean home in sunken R'lyeh- symbol and actuality of unimaginable nightmare-the greatest creation of H.P. Lovecraft.

The Cthulhu Mythos inspired many authors to write stories using it as a theme-and this anthology contains the best of these, together with key Cthulhu stories by Lovecraft. In this first volume, the famous "Call of Cthu- Thu leads to tales by Derleth, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long and other masters of the macabre.

H.P. Lovecraft

This century's greatest master of weird fantasy-creator of an eldritch dimension of horror, swarming with such enti- ties as dread Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth, Hastur, lurkers in the earth or beyond the barriers of time.

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TALES OF THE CTHULHU MYTHOS, Vol. II

AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS

THE TOMB

THE SHUTTERED ROOM

THE LURKING FEAR

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