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Lovecraft is "the American writer of the twentieth century most frequently compared with Poe, in the quality of his art ... [and] its thematic preoccupations (the obsessive depiction of psychic disintegration in the face of cosmic horror)," writes Joyce Carol Oates in the New York Review of Books. Del Rey has …

The story consists of two main narratives linked by a third, the voice of "author." Only the author is able to interpret correctly what happened and is aware of the importance of information you have in your power, and is narrating the order in which he was discovering the truth. It begins with the death of an eminent …

H.P. Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s. Among his most celebrated tales are "The Call of Cthulhu" and "The Shadow over Innsmouth", both canonical to the Cthulhu Mythos. Stories included in this volume: Dagon (1919) The Statement of Randolph Carter (1920) Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His …