These are tales of terror and horror, grown from mankind's ageless struggle between good and evil, the Lovecraftian concepts of which lies in the Greta Old Ones and the Ancient Ones -- Hastur, Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth, Nyarlothep and all the other imaginative beings of the Cthulhu panoply. 

Great Cthutlhu -- Hastur the Unspeakable -- sunken R'lyeh -- all come to life again in these five novellas and one short story. H. P. Lovecraft himself suggested the theme of The Return of Hastur shortly before his death. The remaining tales in this collection of horror stories followed naturally upon it -- the account of the terrible psychic residue that remained lurking in The House in the Valley; the gruesome compulsion which drove the narrator to his doom in The House in the Valley; the gruesome compulsion which drove the narrator to his doom in The Whippoorwills in the Hills; the inescapable agreement which lay behind The Sandwin Compact; and the search which followed the discovery of The Seal of R'lyeh in the house near Innsmouth.

Condition: Pre-loved book. Moderate yellowing of pages.

Format: Hardcover
Year published: 1974
Pages: 216
Sub-genre: Horror, short stories
Imprint: Arkham House