Complete Collection of Prose Works. Volume 1

Lovecraft is one of those writers who needs no special introduction. It is difficult to overestimate the influence of his work on modern fantastic and whimsical literature, as well as on mass culture in general. Drawing his inspiration from the works of another outstanding American, Edgar Allan Poe, Lovecraft was able to create his completely original literary world of myths and dark prophecies, forgotten gods from distant faded stars, and night dreams in which dark hidden truths are revealed. The literary legacy of Howard Phillips Lovecraft has been used in many films and works of art. Regarding the number of successors of his literary traditions, he can compete with any other writer in the world.

The first volume of the complete collection of prose works of the outstanding master of "mysterious and otherworldly" literature, H.F. Lovecraft, covers his prose written in the period from 1917 to 1926, from the writer's earliest attempts in the field of the mystical story "The Crypt" to such famous works as "The Temple", "Herbert West - Reanimator", "Conceived Horror", "Rats in the Walls", "Abandoned House" and "The Horror of Red Hook".