Hailed as the `greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale` by Stephen King, is acknowledged as a master of the fantastic and the macabre. This companion volume to The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories brings together a dozen tales - from his early pieces `Under the Pyramids` (originally ghostwritten for Harry Houdini) and the haunting story `The Music of Erich Zann` (which Lovecraft ranked as one of his favourites), to more fully developed works such as `At the Mountains of Madness`, where an Antarctic explorer discovers alien creatures, and `The Dunwich Horror`, which takes us into the backwoods of Lovecraft`s native New England to confront our darkest fears.