{"product_id":"hp-lovecrafts-book-of-horror-9781566194969","title":"H.P. Lovecraft's Book of Horror","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear  and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unkown. So writes H.P. Lovecraft  in his groundbreaking essay Supernatural Horror in Literature  which introduces this volume. In nine sections  Lovecraft  the acknowledged master of the genre  traces its evolution from ancient roots to the early Gothic  and through to the work of his American  British  and European contemporaries. Throughout  he cites the works he feels are of the first order  and from these the editors have selected twenty-one stories  each prefaced by Lovecrafts own opinions. Discover the eerie worlds of Clark Ashton Smith  which in Lovecrafts words are \"a universe of remote and paralyzing fright jungles of iridescent blossoms on the moons of Saturn  evil and grotesque temples in Adantis  Lemuria  and forgotten elder worlds...\" and the works of Arthur Machen  \"in which the elements of hidden horror and brooding fright attain an almost incomparable substance and realistic acuteness...\" Other selections include stories by M.R.. James  Ambrose Bierce  and Edgar Allan Poe. Lovecraft also identifies the best horror tales from writers famed for different work  such as Charles Dickens  R. L. Stevenson  Guy de Maupassant and E. F. Benson. This collection of Lovecrafts favorites is a feast of fear that no fan of the supernatural will be able to resist. Since  in the words of the master: \"Children will always be afraid of the dark and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars  or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648266395701,"sku":"ByrdShop_1566194962","price":28.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781566194969.jpg?v=1781714699","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/hp-lovecrafts-book-of-horror-9781566194969","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}