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"H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale."--Stephen King Some tales in this collection were inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, others he revised, two he co-authored-but all bear the mark of the master of primordial... Read Full Overview

H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale. Stephen King Lovecraft s fiction is one of the cornerstones of modern horror. Clive Barker Some tales in this collection were inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, others... Read Full Overview

The Horror in the Museum is a classic American horror short story by H. P. Lovecraft. "The Horror in the Museum" is a short story ghostwritten by H. P. Lovecraft for Somerville, MA writer Hazel Heald in October 1932, published in 1933. It is one of five stories Lovecraft revised... Read Full Overview

Book Excerpt: ren't made for human beings, and their size bothered us. Anyway, it was devilish heavy. We had to have the Americans down to get It out. They weren't anxious to go into the place, but of course the worst thing was safely inside the box. We told them it was a batch... Read Full Overview

Aonia edizioni. IT WAS languid curiousity which first brought Stephen Jones to Rogers' Museum. Someone had told him about the queer underground place in Southwark Street across the river, where waxen things so much more horrible than the worst effigies at Madame Tussaud's were... Read Full Overview