{"product_id":"2940014747691","title":"H.P. LOVECRAFT [Inspiration for Stephen King] COMPLETE MAJOR WORKS All the Major Masterpieces of H.P. Lovecraft Classics of Horror Over 10,000 Pages Including \"The Call of Cthulhu\", The Shadow Over Innsmouth, At the Mountains of Madness and More! [Nook]","description":"H.P. LOVECRAFT \u003cbr\u003e[Inspiration for Stephen King] \u003cbr\u003eCOMPLETE MAJOR WORKS \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll the Major Masterpieces of H.P. Lovecraft \u003cbr\u003eClassics of Horror Over 10,000 Pages Including \"The Call of Cthulhu\", At the Mountains of Madness and More! [Nook]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTABLE OF CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE\u003cbr\u003eTHE BEAST IN THE CAVE\u003cbr\u003eTHE ALCHEMIST\u003cbr\u003eTHE TOMB\u003cbr\u003eDAGON\u003cbr\u003eA REMINISCENCE OF DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON\u003cbr\u003ePOLARIS\u003cbr\u003eBEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP\u003cbr\u003eTHE TRANSITION OF JUAN ROMERO\u003cbr\u003eTHE WHITE SHIP\u003cbr\u003eTHE DOOM THAT CAME TO SARNATH\u003cbr\u003eTHE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER\u003cbr\u003eTHE STREET\u003cbr\u003eSWEET ERMENGARDE\u003cbr\u003eTHE TREE\u003cbr\u003eTHE TEMPLE\u003cbr\u003eFACTS CONCERNING THE LATE ARTHUR JERMYN AND HIS FAMILY\u003cbr\u003eCELEPHAÏS\u003cbr\u003eFROM BEYOND\u003cbr\u003eTHE PICTURE IN THE HOUSE\u003cbr\u003eTHE NAMELESS CITY\u003cbr\u003eTHE QUEST OF IRANON\u003cbr\u003eTHE MOON-BOG\u003cbr\u003eTHE OUTSIDER\u003cbr\u003eTHE OTHER GODS\u003cbr\u003eHERBERT WEST — REANIMATOR\u003cbr\u003eTHE MUSIC OF ERICH ZANN\u003cbr\u003eHYPNOS\u003cbr\u003eTHE HOUND\u003cbr\u003eTHE LURKING FEAR\u003cbr\u003eTHE RATS IN THE WALLS\u003cbr\u003eTHE UNNAMABLE\u003cbr\u003eTHE FESTIVAL\u003cbr\u003eIMPRISONED WITH THE PHARAOHS\u003cbr\u003eTHE SHUNNED HOUSE\u003cbr\u003eTHE HORROR AT RED HOOK\u003cbr\u003eHE\u003cbr\u003eIN THE VAULT\u003cbr\u003eCOOL AIR\u003cbr\u003eTHE CALL OF CTHULHU\u003cbr\u003ePICKMAN'S MODEL\u003cbr\u003eTHE DREAM-QUEST OF UNKNOWN KADATH\u003cbr\u003eTHE SILVER KEY\u003cbr\u003eTHE STRANGE HIGH HOUSE IN THE MIST\u003cbr\u003eTHE CASE OF CHARLES DEXTER WARD\u003cbr\u003eTHE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE\u003cbr\u003eTHE VERY OLD FOLK\u003cbr\u003eTHE DUNWICH HORROR\u003cbr\u003eTHE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS\u003cbr\u003eAT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS\u003cbr\u003eTHE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH\u003cbr\u003eTHE DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE\u003cbr\u003eTHE EVIL CLERGYMAN\u003cbr\u003eTHE THING ON THE DOORSTEP\u003cbr\u003eTHROUGH THE GATES OF THE SILVER KEY\u003cbr\u003eTHE HAUNTER OF THE DARK\u003cbr\u003eFRAGMENTS\u003cbr\u003eTHE DESCENDANT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEXCERPT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Examined at headquarters after a trip of intense strain and weariness, the prisoners all proved to be men of a very low, mixed-blooded, and mentally aberrant type. Most were seamen, and a sprinkling of Negroes and mulattoes, largely West Indians or Brava Portuguese from the Cape Verde Islands, gave a colouring of voodooism to the heterogeneous cult. But before many questions were asked, it became manifest that something far deeper and older than Negro fetishism was involved. Degraded and ignorant as they were, the creatures held with surprising consistency to the central idea of their loathsome faith.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky. Those Old Ones were gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead bodies had told their secrets in dreams to the first men, who formed a cult which had never died. This was that cult, and the prisoners said it had always existed and always would exist, hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world until the time when the great priest Cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of R'lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway. Some day he would call, when the stars were ready, and the secret cult would always be waiting to liberate him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile no more must be told. There was a secret which even torture could not extract. Mankind was not absolutely alone among the conscious things of earth, for shapes came out of the dark to visit the faithful few. But these were not the Great Old Ones. No man had ever seen the Old Ones. The carven idol was great Cthulhu, but none might say whether or not the others were precisely like him. No one could read the old writing now, but things were told by word of mouth. The chanted ritual was not the secret - that was never spoken aloud, only whispered. The chant meant only this: \"In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnly two of the prisoners were found sane enough to be hanged, and the rest were committed to various institutions. All denied a part in the ritual murders, and averred that the killing had been done by Black Winged Ones which had come to them from their immemorial meeting-place in the haunted wood. But of those mysterious allies no coherent account could ever be gained. What the police did extract, came mainly from the immensely aged mestizo named Castro, who claimed to have sailed to strange ports and talked with undying leaders of the cult in the mountains of China.\"","brand":"Classics of Horror Fiction","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173006721264,"sku":"2940014747691","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014747691_p0.jpg?v=1763623272","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014747691","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}