Tales of the Great Old Ones: The Collected Cthulhu Mythos

by Ambrose Bierce, Robert W. Chambers, E. Hoffmann Price, H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith

Overview

Cthulhu, Azathoh, Nyarlathotep, Dagon, Shub-Niggurath, Yog-Sothoth... names that evoke terror and heart-quavering nightmares. These and many more are The Great Old Ones. Among them are the Outer Gods, the Great Ones, the Elder Gods, and other nameless horrors from the darkest imaginings.

These are their stories. Here are the tales of the Great Old Ones.

Gathered in Tales of the Great Old Ones: The Collected Cthulhu Mythos are the many fascinating horrific tales of the Lovecraft Mythos, the imaginary mythical backdrop, settings, stories, characters, lore, and themes developed by H. P. Lovecraft in his "Cthulhu Mythos".

Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos is the foundation of a fictional myth-cycle first recognized and developed by the writer August Derleth, placing some of Lovecraft's stories into a distinct category. These stories focus on The Great Old Ones, elder gods, and unspeakable horrors, along with lost civilizations and the fate of man when faced with unfathomable and unspeakable truths. Lovecraft's peers built on and around this mythos just as he built on his predecessors.

Collected in Tales of the Great Old Ones: The Collected Cthulhu Mythos are the following tales of weird fiction, cosmic horrors, and soul-crushing madness:

Pre-Lovecraft Mythos

• Haïta the Shepherd, 1893 by Ambrose Bierce
• The King in Yellow, 1895 by Robert W. Chambers, including:
  • The Repairer of Reputations
  • The Mask
  • In the Court of the Dragon
  • The Yellow Sign
  • The Demoiselle d'Ys
  • The Prophets' Paradise
  • The Street of the Four Winds
  • The Street of the First Shell
  • The Street of Our Lady of the Fields
  • Rue Barrée
  
  

Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos

• Dagon, 1919
• Nyarlathotep, 1920
• The Statement of Randolph Carter, 1920
• The Crawling Chaos, 1921
• The Nameless City, 1921
• The Picture in the House, 1921
• Herbert West: Reanimator, 1922
• The Hound, 1922
• The Festival, 1923
• Under the Pyramids, 1924
• The Colour Out of Space, 1927
• The Call of Cthulhu, 1926
• The Dunwich Horror, 1929
• The Whisperer in Darkness, 1931
• The Dreams in the Witch-House, 1933
• From Beyond, 1934
• Through the Gates of the Silver Key, 1934, by H. P. Lovecraft and E. Hoffmann Price
• At the Mountains of Madness, 1936
• The Haunter of the Dark, 1936
• The Shadow Out of Time, 1936
• The Shadow Over Innsmouth, 1936
• The Thing on the Doorstep, 1937
• Azathoth written in 1922
• The Descendant, 1938
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward written in 1927
• The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath written in 1926-27

Cthulhu Mythos of Lovecraft's Contemporaries

• The Thing From—"Outside", 1923 by George Allan England
• The Space-Eaters, 1928 by Frank Belknap Long
• The Hounds of Tindalos, 1929 by Frank Belknap Long
• The Curse of Yig, 1929 by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop
• The Tale of Satampra Zeiros, 1931 by Clark Ashton Smith
• People of the Dark, 1932 by Robert E. Howard
• The Horror in the Museum, 1933 by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald
• The Haunter of the Ring, 1934 by Robert E. Howard
• The Challenge from Beyond, 1935 by Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, H. P. Lovecraft, A. Merrit and C. L. Moore
• The Secret of Kralitz, 1936 by Henry Kuttner
• The Horror in the Burying-Ground, 1937 by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald
• Dig Me No Grave, 1937 by Robert Ervin Howard
• Medusa's Coil, 1939 by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop

This extensive volume includes numerous haunting illustrations inspired by the Cthulhu mythos and its cosmic horrors. Also included is an interactive table of contents so readers do not lose their minds or get lost in other dimensions.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940186635390
Publisher:	Castanea Classics
Publication date:	10/31/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft spent most of his life in New England.