{"product_id":"9781435162815","title":"H.P. Lovecraft Selects: Classic Horror Stories","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\"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 has for nearly a century served as a required reading list for tales of the supernatural. \u003ci\u003eH. P. Lovecraft Selects: Classic Horror Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e collects in one volume more than thirty stories that Lovecraft singled out in his essay as the best horror tales of all time, including:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Vampyre:\u003c\/b\u003e With this tale of the sinister Lord Ruthven and his predatory travels across the European continent, John Polidori helped to make the vampire one of the most popular themes in horror fiction.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLot No. 249:\u003c\/b\u003e Arthur Conan Doyle's groundbreaking story set the standard for treatments of mummies in horror fiction and films with its account of a collector of Egyptian artifacts who has found dangerously unorthodox uses for the centerpiece of his collection.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Monkey's Paw:\u003c\/b\u003e In this well-known tale by W. W. Jacons, the owner of a magic talisman with the power to grant wishes finds that it can make dreams come true--and also nightmares.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Treasure of Abbot Thomas:\u003c\/b\u003e The antiquary who solves the cypher in M. R. James's macabre masterpiece thinks that he will soon take possession of the centuries-old treasure that it has helped to conceal--but he underestimates the unholy powers that its owner has invoked to safeguard it.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe White People:\u003c\/b\u003e \"You haven't realized what sin is,\" says a character in Arthur Machen's horror classic, before regaling the reader with an account of a young child's indoctrination into occult rituals that have terrifying consequences for their ill-ated victims. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAncient Sorceries:\u003c\/b\u003e Algernon Blackwood's adventure of psychic sleuth John Silence is a tale concerned with sorcerous doings in a small French town and how they relate to its abnormally large population of cats.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe House on the Borderland: William Hope Hodgson presents this novel-length work of cosmic horror as the journal of a man whose house is under siege from otherworldy monsters living in the chasm beneath it.","brand":"Fall River Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026190123248,"sku":"9781435162815","price":7.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781435162815_p0.jpg?v=1763755506","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781435162815","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}