title: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre
author:  H.P. Lovecraft 
description: Lovecraft is "the American writer of the twentieth century most frequently compared with <a href="/exec/obidos/Author=Poe%2C%20Edgar/${0}">Poe</a>, in the quality of his art ... [and] its thematic preoccupations (the obsessive depiction of psychic disintegration in the face of cosmic horror)," writes <a href="/exec/obidos/Author=Oates%2C%20Joyce%20Carol/${0}">Joyce Carol Oates</a> in the <i>New York Review of Books</i>. Del Rey has reprinted Lovecraft's stories in three handsome paperbacks. This first volume collects 16 classic tales, including "The Rats in the Walls," "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Dunwich Horror," and "The Colour Out of Space." Introduction by Robert Bloch. Wraparound cover art by Michael Whelan.
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  THE H. P. LOVECRAFT EDITIONS FROM DEL REY BOOKS
  
  
  _Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre:  
  The Best of H. P. Lovecraft_
  
  
  _Dreams of Terror and Death:  
  The Dreamcycle of H. P. Lovecraft_
  
  
  _The Road to Madness:  
  The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft_
  
  
  _The Horror in the Museum_
  
  
  _Waking Up Screaming_
  
  
  _Shadows of Death_
  
  
  _At the Mountains of Madness and Other Stories_
  
  
  OTHER COLLECTIONS IN THE LOVECRAFTIAN WORLD
  
  
  _Tales of Cthulhu Mythos: H. P. Lovecraft and Others_
  
  
  _Cthulhu 2000: Stories Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft_
  
  
  ALSO AVAILABLE FROM THE MODERN LIBRARY
  
  
  _At the Mountains of Madness:_  
  The Definitive Edition
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **A BOUT THE AUTHORS**
  
  
  AUGUST DERLETH was a friend and literary student of H. P. Lovecraft, with whom
  he shared a great deal of correspondence. After Lovecraft’s death, he and
  Donald Wandrei attempted to publish a collection of the author’s stories, but
  in the face of little interest from extant publishers, they founded Arkham
  House in 1939 with