The Lurking Fear and Other Stories
Lovecraft was virtually unknown during his lifetime and was almost exclusively published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty at the age of 46, but is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors of supernatural horror fiction. His writings are the basis of the Cthulhu Mythos, which has inspired a large body of media drawing on Lovecraft’s characters, setting and themes, constituting a wider subgenre known as Lovecraftian horror. This is a collection of his early stories: The Tomb (1917), Dagon (1917), A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1917), Polaris (1918), Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919), Memory (1919), The White Ship (1919), The Doom That Came to Sarnath (1919), The Statement of Randolph Carter (1920), The Street (1920), The Terrible Old Man (1920), The Cats of Ulthar (1920), The Tree (1920), Celephaïs (1920), Nyarlathotep (1920), The Picture in the House (1920), Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1920), The Nameless City (1921), Ex Oblivione (1921), The Music of Erich Zann (1921), Hypnos (1922), What the Moon Brings (1922), Herbert West — Reanimator (1922), The Hound (1922), The Lurking Fear (1922), The Rats in the Walls (1923).