Includes bibliographical references (p. xxi-xxiv).

Dagon -- The Statement of Randolph Carter -- Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family -- Celephais -- Nyarlathotep -- The Picture in the House -- The Outsider -- Herbert West--Reanimator -- The Hound -- The Rats in the Walls -- The Festival -- He -- Cool Air -- The Call of Cthulhu -- The Colour Out of Space -- The Whisperer in Darkness -- The Shadow Over Innsmouth -- The Haunter of the Dark.

Long after his death, H. P. Lovecraft continues to enthrall readers with his gripping tales of madness and cosmic terror, and his effect on modern horror fiction continues to be felt -- Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Clive Barker have acknowledged his influence. His unique contribution to American literature was a melding of Poe's traditional supernaturalism with the emerging genre of science fiction. Originally appearing in pulp magazines like Weird Tales in the 1920s and 1930s, Lovecraft's work is now being regarded as the most important supernatural fiction of the twentieth century.

Lovecraft's biographer and preeminent interpreter, S. T. Joshi, has prepared this volume of eighteen stories -- from the early classics like "The Outsider" and "Rats in the Wall" to his mature masterworks, "The Call of Cthulhu" and "The Shadow Over Innsmouth." The first paperback to include the definitive corrected texts, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style, and establishes him as a canonical -- and visionary -- American writer.