Synopsis: "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear." So wrote horror master H. P. Lovecraft in his landmark essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature," a survey that for nearly a century has served as a required reading list for tales of the supernatural. H. P. Lovecraft Selects: Classic Horror Stories collects in one volume more than thirty stories that Lovecraft singled out in his essay as the best horror tales of all time, including... (source: book dust cover)