Tour de Lovecraft : the tales

A brief survey of Lovecraftian criticism -- The stories. The tomb ; Dagon ; Polaris ; Beyond the wall of sleep ; The white ship ; The doom that came to Sarnath ; The statement of Ralph Carter ; The terrible old man ; The tree ; Facts concerning the late Arthur Jermyn and his family ; The cats of Ulthar ; The temple ; Celephaïs ; Nyarlathotep ; From beyond ; The picture in the house ; The nameless city ; The quest of Iranon ; The moon-bog ; The outsider ; The other gods ; Herbert West, reanimator ; The music of Eric Zann ; Hypnos ; The hound ; The lurking fear ; The rats in the walls ; The unnamable ; The festival ; Under the pyramids ; The shunned house ; The horror at Red Hook ; He ; In the vault ; Cool air ; The call of Cthulhu ; Pickman's model ; The strange high house in the mist ; The dream-quest of unknown Kadath ; The silver key ; The case of Charles Dexter Ward ; The colour out of space ; The Dunwich horror ; The whisperer in darkness ; At the mountains of madness ; The shadow over Innsmouth ; The dreams in the witch house ; Through the gates of the silver key ; The thing on the doorstep ; The shadow out of time ; The haunters of the dark. Welcome to the Tour de Lovecraft: The Tales. This book is pretty much what that title conveys, a tour through all fifty-one of H.P. Lovecraft's mature works of prose fiction. We're skipping the poetry, the collaborations and ghost-writing and revisions (except for Through the Gates of the Silver Key), the travel writing, the artistic and literary criticism and all the other things Lovecraft wrote instead of horror stories. It is my contention that the tale's the thing, and al- though some of Lovecraft's other works are interesting or fun or valuable, they're not what any of us really signed up for. Like most tours, we'll stay a little longer at the good spots, and try our best to hustle past the weedy, overgrown patches. Hopefully I can point out one or two scenic overlooks along the way, letting you perhaps see some familiar landscape from an angle you hadn't noticed before. .