Baxter has done no original research on Lovecraft or published anything about him. So far as I know (and I have prepared two versions of a comprehensive bibliography of Lovecraft that lists every article written about him from the 1910s to the present day), Mr. Baxter was assigned to write the review in the first place. Whatever the case, I think some words on the other side might be useful. Baxter has some kind of personal animus against Lovecraft. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.I was taken aback at the vehemence of Charles Baxter’s screed on the American supernaturalist H. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. In such later works as 'The Call of Cthulhu,' 'The Whisperer in Darkness,' 'At the Mountains of Madness,' 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth,' and 'The Shadow Out of Time,' Lovecraft developed his own nightmarish mythology in which encounters with ancient, pitiless extraterrestrial intelligences wreak havoc on hapless humans who only gradually begin to glimpse 'terrifying vistas of reality, and our frightful position therein.' Moving from old New England towns haunted by occult pasts to Antarctic wastes that disclose appalling secrets, Lovecraft's tales continue to exert a dread fascination. 'The Horror at Red Hook' and 'He' reveal the fascination and revulsion Lovecraft felt for New York City 'Pickman's Model' uncovers the frightening secret behind an artist's work 'The Rats in the Walls' is a terrifying descent into atavistic horror and 'The Colour Out of Space' explores the eerie impact of a meteorite on a remote Massachusetts valley. Early stories such as 'The Outsider,' 'The Music of Erich Zann,' 'Herbert West-Reanimator,' and 'The Lurking Fear' demonstrate Lovecraft's uncanny ability to blur the distinction between reality and nightmare, sanity and madness, the human and non-human.

Lovecraft's fiction in a treasury guaranteed to bring fright and delight both to longtime fans and to readers new to his work. Lovecraft's greatest works of horror and dread, from his early stories to his major classics like 'The Call of Cthulhu,' 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth,' and At the Mountains of Madness In this Library of America volume, the best-selling novelist Peter Straub brings together the very best of H.

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