“The dreams were wholly beyond the pale of sanity . . . ”
Plauged by insane nightmare visions, Walter Gilman seeks help in Miskatonic University’s infamous library of forbidden books, where, in the pages of Abdul Alhazred’s dreaded Necronomicon, he finds terrible hints that seem to connect his own studies in advanced mathematics with the fantastic legends of elder magic. “The Dreams in the Witch House,” gathered together here with more than twenty tales of terror, exemplifies H.P. Lovecraft’s primacy among twentieth-century American horror writers.
A companion volume to The Call of Cthulhu and The Thing on the Doorstep, this original Penguin Classics collection presents the definitive texts of the work, including a newly restored text of “The Shadow out of Time,” along with S.T. Joshi’s invaluable Introduction and Notes.
“Lovecraft’s fiction is one of the cornerstones of modern horror . . . A unique and visionary world of wonder, terror, and delirium.” – Clive Barker
Contents
Introduction by S.T. Joshi
Suggestions for Further Reading
A Note on the Texts
Polaris
The Doom That Came to Sarnath
The Terrible Old Man
The Tree
The Cats of Ulthar
From Beyond
The Nameless City
The Moon-Bog
The Other Gods
Hypnos
The Lurking Fear
The Unnamable
The Shunned House
The Horror at Red Hook
In the Vault
The Strange High House in the Mist
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
The Silver Key
Through the Gates of the Silver Key
The Dreams in the Witch House
The Shadow Out of Time
Explanatory Notes