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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  # CONTENTS
  
  
  CONTENTS
  
  
  [DRAMATIS PERSONAE](index_split_001.html#id_Toc40549951)
  
  
  [HELL IS A CHAINSWORD DEEP](index_split_003.html#id_Toc40549952)
  
  
  [ONE](index_split_004.html#id_Toc40549953)
  
  
  [TWO](index_split_005.html#id_Toc40549954)
  
  
  [THREE](index_split_006.html#id_Toc40549955)
  
  
  [FOUR](index_split_007.html#id_Toc40549956)
  
  
  [I AM THE FORTRESS NOW](index_split_010.html#id_Toc40549957)
  
  
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  [TWO](index_split_012.html#id_Toc40549959)
  
  
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  [FOUR VICTORIES (TO THE DEATH)](index_split_017.html#id_Toc40549964)
  
  
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  [TWO](index_split_019.html#id_Toc40549966)
  
  
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