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H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror

by Ambrose Bierce, Francis Marion Crawford, Robert W. Chambers, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Ralph Adams Cram, Irvin S. Cobb, Edward Lucas White, Clark Ashton Smith, Rudyard Kipling, E.F. Benson, Hugh Walpole, William Hope Hodgson, Arthur Machen, M.R. James, Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hanns Heinz Ewers, Theophile Gautier, Guy de Maupassant, Edgar Allan Poe · 1993

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Stories praised by Lovecraft in his essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature." H.P. Lovecraft's essay on "Supernatural Horror in Literature" is published here together with a showcase of the fiction which Lovecraft recommends. Authors include Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Clark Ashton Smith, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, A. Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James and many more.

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horrorhorrorMore like thisLess of thisfantasyfantasyMore like thisLess of thisweird fictionweird fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
gothicgothicMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
long · 450 pages
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short storiesshort storiesMore like thisLess of this

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