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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Don't dip into this book unless you want to share in Lovecraft's nightmares! H.P. Lovecraft has scared readers senseless for more than a century, and this mammoth anthology contains his most chilling tales: <i>The Call of Cthulhu</i> (a terrifying tentacled alien god); <i>Herbert West - Reanimator</i>, about a man who can bring people back from the dead; <i>The Rats in the Walls</i>; <i>The Dunwich Horror</i>; and many others.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Don t dip into this book unless you want to share in Lovecraft s nightmares! H.P. Lovecraft has scared readers senseless for more than a century, and this mammoth anthology contains his most chilling tales: <i>The Call of Cthulhu</i> (a terrifying tentacled alien god); <i>Herbert West - Reanimator</i>, about a man who can bring people back from the dead; <i>The Rats in the Walls</i>; <i>The Dunwich Horror</i>; and many others.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"The critical essays explore a variety of aspects of Lovecraft's work, such as his story structure, his relationship to Victorian fiction and modernism, and the ever-present issue of his racism and its reflection in his work...highly recommended"--<i>Booklist</i>; "Exceptionally informative and thoroughly 'reader friendly' in organization and presentation...recommended"--<i>Midwest Book Review</i>.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born in Providence, RI, in 1890. His ambition as a young man was to become an astronomer, but he lacked the qualifications to go to university and ultimately turned to writing and editing. Although he was not famous during his lifetime, his status as one of the great twentieth-century horror writers grew after his death from cancer in 1937.

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