H. P. Lovecraft’s Book of the Supernatural

H. P. Lovecraft’s Book of the Supernatural: Classic Tales of the Macabre

edited by Stephen Jones

H. P. Lovecraft’s Book of the Supernatural is a collection nineteenth-century horror stories. Even if you don’t like horror, keep reading. These stories are not the kind of things that Steven King or Clive Barker write. This book includes short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Washington Irving, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. These stories are much more about developing an eerie atmosphere than they are about violence, blood, and terror.

H. P. Lovecraft was one of the most famous and influential horror writers in the United States. In addition to short stories and novellas, he wrote “Supernatural Horror in Literature,” an essay about the history of horror stories. For this book, Stephen Jones has collected nineteen of the stories from Lovecraft’s essay. These are some of the best short horror stories of the past 200 years: if you want to know who influenced your favorite horror authors, or if you dislike modern horror but enjoy weird stories, this might be a good book to read.

This is actually the second one of these collections that Stephen Jones has done. The first is called H. P. Lovecraft’s Book of Horror.

Where to Find It

You can get it from the public library.

July 20th, 2009 Tags: collections, gothic, murder, super, supernatural | Category: Fiction, Horror | Write a comment |