Complete and unabridged, with 100 full-page plates by Willem Roelofs, Odilon Redon and Jacob Maris. Eight tales from the writer who replaced the ghost with the indifference of the universe: the thing in the Dunwich hills, the call of Cthulhu, a colour that falls from the sky and drains a farm, the shadow over Innsmouth, and the expedition that finds a city in Antarctica older than mankind, and the young man who raises his ancestor from the dust of Providence. Lovecraft published in pulp magazines for a cent a word and died poor at forty-six. A hundred plates spanning 1783 to 1910, from Goya's royal portraits to Redon's dream-haunted visions, trace the uncanny and the cosmic that Lovecraft made his own.