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| Author/Contributor(s): | Lovecraft, H. P.; Chambers, R. W.; Bierce, Ambrose; Poe, Edgar Allan; Machen, Arthur |
| Publisher: | NYRB Classics |
| Date: | 10/6/2015 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
From the fictional land of Carcosa that inspired the HBO show True Detective toH. P. Lovecraft’s accursed New England hills, this collection featuressome of the most legendary landscapes of the cosmic horror genre. Thecollection includes the following twelve stories:
Edgar Allan Poe, “MS. Found in a Bottle”
Bram Stoker, “The Squaw”
Ambrose Bierce, “Moxon’s Master”
Ambrose Bierce, “The Damned Thing”
Ambrose Bierce, “An Inhabitant of Carcosa”
R. W. Chambers, “The Repairer of Reputations”
M. P. Shiel, “The House of Sounds”
Arthur Machen, “The White People”
Algernon Blackwood, “The Willows”
Henry James, “The Jolly Corner”
Walter de la Mare, “Seaton’s Aunt”
H. P. Lovecraft, “The Colour Out of Space”
“Thetrue weird tale has something more than a secret murder, bloody bones,or a sheeted form clanking chains. An atmosphere of breathless andunexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; a hint ofthat most terrible conception of the human brain—a malign andparticularsuspension or defeat of those fixed laws of Nature which areour onlysafeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons ofunplumbedspace.”—H. P. Lovecraft
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