The Lurking Fear: Collected Short Stories Volume Four

Selected and Introduced by M.J. Elliot.

‘The thing came abruptly and unannounced; a demon, rat-like, scurrying from pits remote and unimaginable, a hellish panting and stifled grunting, and then from that opening beneath the chimney a burst of multitudinous and leprous life – a loathsome night-spawned flood of organic corruption more devastatingly hideous than the blackest conjurations of mortal madness and morbidity.’

Only the expansive imagination of H.P. Lovecraft could conceive the delicious and spine-tingling horrors you will find within the pages of this unique collection. In addition to such classics as ‘The Picture in the House’, ‘The Music of Erich Zann’ and ‘The Rats in the Walls’, this volume contains some fascinating rarities: examples of Lovecraft’s earliest weird fiction and material unpublished during his lifetime.

H.P. Lovecraft’s creation of the Cthulhu Mythos has influenced many modern authors, and still remains at the forefront of supernatural literature.

Includes:

• The Lurking Fear
• The Beast in the Cave
• The Alchemist
• The Tomb
• Beyond the Wall of Sleep
• Memory
• The Transition of Juan Romero
• The White Ship
• The Terrible Old Man
• Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
• The Street
• The Temple
• The Tree
• From Beyond
• Nyarlathotep
• The Picture in the House
• Ex Oblivione
• The Quest of Iranon
• The Moon-Bog
• The Outsider
• The Music of Erich Zann
• Hypnos
• Azathoth
• What the Moon Brings
• The Rats in the Walls
• He
• In the Vault
• Cool Air
• The Descendant
• The Very Old Folk
• The Book
• The Evil Clergyman