H.P. Lovecraft - The Complete Fiction Omnibus Collection - Second Edition: The Early Years

This volume covers H.P. Lovecraft’s “apprentice years”: roughly the first half of his literary career, the half written before his return to Providence in 1926. Every story written for publication under his own name is included in this volume, from 1917 through 1925.

Highlights of this volume include:

• The Tomb
• Dagon
• The Doom that Came to Sarnath
• The Temple
• The Picture in the House
• The Nameless City
• The Outsider
• The Other Gods
• The Music of Erich Zann
• Herbert West, Reanimator
• The Hound
• The Lurking Fear
• The Rats in the Walls
• The Shunned House
• The Festival
• The Horror at Red Hook
• In the Vault
• Supernatural Horror in Literature

TABLE of CONTENTS:

[NOTE: DIGITS IN BRACKETS = CHAPTER NUMBERS IN THE AUDIOBOOK EDITION]

• 1908: Refuge in Poetry [2] 3
  • The Beast in the Cave (1905) [3] 5
  • The Alchemist [4] 11
• 1917: Return to the Field [5] 21
  • The Tomb [6] 23
  • Dagon [7] 33
  • A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson [8] 41
  • Nemesis [9] 47
• 1918: Starry Darkness [10] 51
  • Psychopompos [11] 53
  • Polaris [12] 65
• 1919: The Gentleman Fictioneer [13] 69
  • Beyond the Wall of Sleep [14] 71
  • Memory [15] 81
  • Old Bugs [16] 83
  • The Transition of Juan Romero [17] 91
  • The White Ship [18] 99
  • The Street [19] 105
  • The Doom that Came to Sarnath [20] 111
  • The Statement of Randolph Carter [21] 119
• 1920: Out of the Chrysalis [22] 125
  • Ex Oblivione [23] 127
  • The Terrible Old Man [24] 131
  • The Tree [25] 135
  • The Cats of Ulthar [26] 141
  • The Temple [27] 145
  • Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and his Family [28] 159
  • Celephaïs [31] 169
  • From Beyond [32] 175
  • Nyarlarthotep [33] 183
  • The Picture in the House [34] 187
• 1921: May the Circle Be Unbroken [35] 195
  • The Nameless City [36] 197
  • The Quest of Iranon [37] 209
  • The Moon Bog [38] 217
  • The Outsider [39] 225
  • The Other Gods [40] 233
  • The Music of Erich Zann [41] 239
  • Herbert West, Reanimator [42] 247
• 1922: New Thresholds [49] 275
  • Hypnos [50] 277
  • Azathoth [51] 285
  • What the Moon Brings [52] 287
  • The Hound [53] 290
  • The Lurking Fear [54] 299
• 1923: The Weird Tales Era [59] 317
  • The Rats in the Walls [60] 319
  • The Unnamable [61] 337
  • The Festival [62] 345
• 1924: Family Man [63] 355
  • The Shunned House [64] 359
• 1925: Exile [70] 385
  • The Horror at Red Hook [71] 389
  • He [79] 409
  • In the Vault [80] 419
• Appendix A: Other Writings [82] 429
  • Sweet Ermengarde; or, The Heart of a Country Girl [83] 431
  • The History of the Necronomicon [91] 439
  • Supernatural Horror in Literature [92] 443
• Appendix B: Timeline of H.P. Lovecraft’s Life and Work [103] 507