The Early Cosmic Horror MEGAPACK®

The stories in this collection (first published between 1841 to 1913) represent seven decades of development in weird fiction. They established cosmic horror as one of literature's most distinctive and disturbing genres. Together, they form an essential library of horror fiction, documenting humanity's growing awareness of its cosmic insignificance and the terrible price of that knowledge.

These tales were all highly influential, and they shaped H.P. Lovecraft's view of horror. They are the roots of his philosophy for the Cthulhu Mythos and much of his classic fiction.

Included are:

THE WILLOWS, by Algernon Blackwood

AN INHABITANT OF CARCOSA, by Ambrose Bierce

SREDNI VASHTAR, by Saki

OH, WHISTLE AND I’LL COME TO YOU, MY LAD, by M. R. James

THE NOVEL OF THE WHITE POWDER, by Arthur Machen

THE YELLOW SIGN, by Robert W. Chambers

THE DAMNED THING, by Ambrose Bierce

THE VOICE IN THE NIGHT, by William Hope Hodgson

THE HORROR OF THE HEIGHTS, by Arthur Conan Doyle

VAILA, by M. P. Shiel

LUKUNDOO, by Edward Lucas White

THE GROVE OF ASHTAROTH, by John Buchan

THE WHITE WOLF OF THE HARTZ MOUNTAINS, by Frederick Marryat

THE MAN WHO WENT TOO FAR, by E. F. Benson

THE DEAD VALLEY, by Ralph Adams Cram

MUJINA, by Lafcadio Hearn

AMOUR DURE, by Vernon Lee

LUELLA MILLER, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTRÖM, by Edgar Allan Poe

WHAT WAS IT? by Fitz-James O’Brien

GREEN TEA, by Joseph Sheridan LeFanu

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