This volume collects, for the first time, the entire Dream Cycle created by H. P. Lovecraft, the master of twentieth-century horror, including some of his most fantastic tales:

• The Doom That Came to Sarnath—Hate, genocide, and a deadly curse consume the land of Mnar

• The Statement of Randolph Carter—"You fool, Warren is DEAD!"

• The Nameless City—Death lies beneath the shifting sands, in a story linking the Dream Cycle with the legendary Cthulhu Mythos

• The Cats of Ulthar—In Ulthar, no man may kill a cat... and woe unto any who tries

• The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath—The epic nightmare adventure with tendrils stretching throughout the entire Dream Cycle

and twenty more tales of surreal terror.

With an introduction by Neil Gaiman.

"Like no other writers dead or alive, Lovecraft can infuse a reader with pure mind-numbing terror. His philosophy is simple: Man is lucky to be ignorant, because if he knew the truth it would either destroy him or drive him mad. Once you read Lovecraft, you will never be the same again."
   STUART GORDON, DIRECTOR, RE-ANIMATOR, FROM BEYOND

"Reading Lovecraft is more than experiencing the creations of a bizarre and fitful mind through the medium of exquisite prose. It's far more chilling than that.... What you read is what he lived and that's the scariest thing of all"
   WALTER KOENIG, ACTOR STAR TREK