title: The Road to Madness: Twenty-Nine Tales of Terror
author:  H. P. Lovecraft 
description: "There is a melancholy, operatic grandeur in Lovecraft's most passionate work," writes <a href="/exec/obidos/Author=Oates%2C%20Joyce%20Carol/${0}">Joyce Carol Oates</a> in <i>The New York Review of Books,</i> "... a curious elegiac poetry of unspeakable loss, of adolescent despair, and an existential loneliness so pervasive that it lingers in the reader's memory, like a dream, long after the rudiments of Lovecraftian plot have faded." Del Rey has reprinted Lovecraft's stories in three large-format paperbacks. This third volume collects one poem, one story fragment, and 26 tales not included in the first two, including "Herbert West--Reanimator," "The Lurking Fear," "Dagon," "The Unnameable," and the classic short novel "At the Mountains of Madness." Introduction by Barbara Hambly. Beautiful cover art by surrealist John Jude Palencar.
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  [TITLE](../Text/part0001.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [COPYRIGHT](../Text/part0002.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [1: WAKING UP](../Text/part0003.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [2: PANIC](../Text/part0004.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [3: MARSEILLES](../Text/part0005.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [4: CAPTIVE](../Text/part0006.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [5: ACROSS THE MEDITERRANEAN](../Text/part0007.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [6: DROWNING](../Text/part0008.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [7: ASSAULT](../Text/part0009.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [8: TAMING THE MONSTER](../Text/part0010.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [9: ICARUS](../Text/part0011.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [10: CONSEQUENCES](../Text/part0012.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [11: THE MANHATTAN PROJECT](../Text/part0013.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [12: HOME](../Text/part0014.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [13: FILLED](../Text/part0015.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [14: THE VIPER STRIKES](../Text/part0016.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [15: MERCENARIES](../Text/part0017.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [16: PAYMENT DUE](../Text/part0018.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [17: THE FORTRESS FALLS](../Text/part0019.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [18: HEALING](../Text/part0020.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [19: THE STORM BREAKS](../Text/part0021.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [20: VITALY](../Text/pa