Complete and unabridged, with 52 full-page plates by Francisco Goya, Arnold Böcklin and Johan Christian Dahl. 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. Lovecraft published in pulp magazines for a cent a word and died poor at forty-six. Fifty-two plates span 1800 to 1910, from Goya to Odilon Redon, tracing the dark Romantic imagination that gave Lovecraft his monsters.