Descend into the nerve-shattering realm of America's master of horror, H. P. Lovecraft--to a dank place where gloomy maelstroms await the unwary, where the unnatural is surpassed only by the unspeakable, and where all pleasure is perverse. Take a chance.... All you can lose is your sanity.The Doom That Came to Sarnath--The magnificent city had wealth beyond measure, but no riches could save it from a ghastly day of reckoning.The Shunned House--He vowed to rid the odious structure of the brooding horror that clung to it, but evil would not go gently.The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath--Desperate to understand his tormenting vision, one man begins a forbidden and nightmarish journey.The Tomb--The old Hyde family crypt held a gruesome attraction for a boy, until he communed with the dead and learned their secrets.The Shadow Out of Time--The quest to understand the devouring force that once possessed a scholar leads a man to the other side of the world, where all will be revealed in one hideous, unholy night.PLUS ELEVEN OTHER MACABRE TALES OF PURE TERRORFrom the Paperback edition.