The H. P. Lovecraft Omnibus
2
Dagon
and Other Macabre Tales
H. P. Lovecraft
Table of Contents
The Strange High House in the Mist
Supernatural Horror in Literature
The stories in this collection are for the most part secondary to H. P. Lovecraft’s major fiction. They represent every vein that Lovecraft made his own, and many of them are certainly among the best short stories of the macabre written in the twentieth century. An equal number belong to a group which Lovecraft himself frequently deprecated in his letters to his correspondents, over and above the habitual modesty with which Lovecraft looked upon his work. At least two of them – Herbert West: Reanimator and the ghost-written piece for Houdini, Imprisoned with the Pharaohs – were written to order, which was a rare departure from Lovecraft’s customary writing habits.
These stories are arranged here chronologically, based on the following complete chronology set down by Lovecraft with the fragmentary story, The Evil Clergyman, which was part of a letter not intended for publication, appended.
Dagon, 1917
The Tomb, 1917
Polaris, 1918
Beyond the Wall of Sleep, 1919
The Doom That Came to Sarnath, 1919
The Statement of Randolph Carter, 1919
The White Ship, 1919
Arthur Jermyn, (The White Ape), 1920
The Cats of Ulthar, 1920
Celephais, 1920
From Beyond, 1920
The Picture in the House, 1920
The Temple, 1920
The Terrible Old Man, 1920
The Tree, 1920
The Moon-Bog, 1921
The Music of Erich Zann, 1921
The Nameless City, 1921
The Other Gods, 1921
The Outsider, 1921
The Quest of Iranon, 1921
Herbert West: Reanimator, 1921-1922
The Hound, 1922
Hypnos, 1922
The Lurking Fear, 1922
The Festival, 1923
The Rats in the Walls, 1923
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