• Publication: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the MacabrePublication Record # 35792
• Author: H. P. Lovecraft
• Date: 1982-10-00
• ISBN: 0-345-29468-8 [978-0-345-29468-5]
• Publisher: Del Rey / Ballantine
• Price:
  $6.95^?$: US dollar
• Pages: 375
• Format:
  tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Cover: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre by Michael Whelan (variant of The Lurking Fear and Other Stories)
• Notes: Date from Locus #262 (November 1982). C$8.25. Michael Whelan has illustrations on both front and back covers, copyright 1981.
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 82-90468
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 472780994
  • Reginald-3: 09245B

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • Introduction: Heritage of Horror (The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre) • essay by Robert Bloch
• 15 • The Rats in the Walls • (1924) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 30 • The Picture in the House • (1919) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 37 • The Outsider • [Dream Cycle] • (1926) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 42 • Pickman's Model • (1927) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 52 • In the Vault • (1925) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 59 • The Silver Key • [Randolph Carter] • (1929) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 69 • The Music of Erich Zann • [Erich Zann] • (1922) • short story by H. P. Lovecraft
• 76 • The Call of Cthulhu • [Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft originals)] • (1928) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 100 • The Dunwich Horror • [Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft originals)] • (1929) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 134 • The Whisperer in Darkness • [Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft originals)] • (1931) • novella by H. P. Lovecraft
• 185 • The Colour Out of Space • [Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft originals)] • (1927) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 207 • The Haunter of the Dark • [Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft originals)] • (1936) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 225 • The Thing on the Doorstep • [Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft originals)] • (1937) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 246 • The Shadow Over Innsmouth • [Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft originals)] • (1936) • novella by H. P. Lovecraft
• 296 • The Dreams in the Witch-House • [Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft originals)] • (1933) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft
• 325 • The Shadow Out of Time • [Cthulhu Mythos (Lovecraft originals)] • (1936) • novella by H. P. Lovecraft