A host of horror and fantasy’s top authors captures the spirit of supreme supernatural storyteller H. P. Lovecraft with eighteen chilling contemporary tales that would have made the master proud.

The Barrens by F. Paul Wilson: In a tangled wilderness, unearthly lights lead the way to a world no human was meant to see.

His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood by Poppy Z. Brite: Two dabblers in black magic encounter a maestro of evil enchantment.

On the Slab by Harlan Ellison: The corpse of a one-eyed giant brings untold fortune-and unspeakable fear-to whoever possesses it.

Pickman’s Modem by Lawrence Watt-Evans: Horror is a keystroke away when an ancient evil lurks in modern technology.

PLUS FOURTEEN MORE BLOOD-CURDLING STORIES

Shaft Number 247 by Basil Copper

The Adder by Fred Chappell

Fat Face by Michael Shea

The Big Fish by Kim Newman

I Had Vacantly Crumpled It into My Pocket … But by God, Eliot, It Was a Photograph from Life! by Joanna Russ

H.P.L. by Gahan Wilson

The Unthinkable by Bruce Sterling

Black Man with a Horn by T. E. D. Klein

Love’s Eldritch Ichor by Esther M. Friesner

The Last Feast of Harlequin by Thomas Ligotti

The Shadow on the Doorstep by James P. Blaylock

Lord of the Land by Gene Wolfe

The Faces at Pine Dunes by Ramsey Campbell

24 Views of Mt. Fuji, by Hokusai by Roger Zelazny