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It was a dark and stormy night when Mary Crane glimpsed the unlit neon sign announcing the vacancy at the Bates motel. Exhausted, lost, and at the end of her rope, she was eager for a hot shower and a bed for the night. Her room was musty but clean and the plumbing worked. Norman Bates, the manager, seemed nice, if a little odd.

“H.P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.”—Stephen King

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”—H.P. Lovecraft

This is the collection that true fans of horror fiction must have: sixteen of H.P. Lovecraft’s most horrifying visions, including:

The Call of Cthulu: The first story in the infamous Cthulhu mythos—a creature spawned in the stars brings a menace of unimaginable evil to threaten all mankind.

The Dunwich Horror: An evil man’s desire to perform an unspeakable ritual leads him in search of the fabled text of The Necronomicon.

The Colour Out of Space: A horror from the skies—far worse than any nuclear fallout—transforms a man into a monster.

The Shadow Over Innsmouth: Rising from the depths of the sea, an unspeakable horror engulfs a quiet New England town.

Plus twelve more terrifying tales!

《克苏鲁神话:恐怖人间》：恐怖小说的精神之源，世界惊悚文学的群英荟萃，与魔共舞的心灵冲击。讲述一个远古邪神（克苏鲁），远在人类文明诞生之前，便寄居在地球上。后来他们由于莫名的原因而陷入沉眠。因此，他们身体与文明都被封存在深海或南极中，等待复苏的那一刻重新奴役人类这一下等人种。

本书可谓恐怖文学和奇幻文学的一座“万神殿”，所集结的世界一流作家均被尊崇为“死亡之舞的大师”，全书共21篇，无不承袭H. P. 洛夫克拉夫特那种“语不惊人死不休”的传统风格，其中包括了H. P. 洛夫克拉夫特原著的《克苏鲁的呼唤》、斯蒂芬•金的《耶路撒冷领地》、罗伯特•布洛克的《弃屋中的笔记本》、菲利浦•荷西•法默的《新生》，以及另外十七篇让你脊椎发凉的惊悚故事，必将带给你心灵深处的恐惧与战栗。