The Invocations: H.P. Lovecraft Short Stories

Special, collectable hardcover edition for Ramsey Campbell's 60 years in publication. H.P. Lovecraft, the inventor of cosmic horror, weird fiction and the Cthulhu mythology, inspired a generation of writers to explore the horrors that lurk along the corridors, at the edges of perception.This special collectable edition of Lovecraft's short stories features a new introduction by Ramsey Campbell along with one of his own tales. The Ramsey Campbell Special Editions. Campbell is the greatest inheritor of a tradition that reaches back through H.P.Lovecraft and M.R. James to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the early Gothic writers.The dark, masterful work of the painter Henry Fuseli, a friend of Mary Wollstonecraft, is used on these special editions to invoke early literary investigations into the supernatural.