Shadows of Carcosa: Tales of Cosmic Horror by Lovecraft, Chambers, Machen, Poe, and Other Masters ofthe Weird [Paperback]

From the fictional land of Carcosa that inspired the HBO show True Detective to H. P. Lovecraft’s accursed New England hills, this collection features some of the most legendary landscapes of the cosmic horror genre. The collection includes the following twelve stories:
 
Edgar Allan Poe, MS. Found in a Bottle
Bram Stoker, The Squaw
Ambrose Bierce, Moxon's Master
Ambrose Bierce, The Damned Thing
Ambrose Bierce, An Inhabitant of Carcosa
R. W. Chambers, The Repairer of Reputations
M. P. Shiel, The House of Sounds
Arthur Machen, The White People
Algernon Blackwood, The Willows
Henry James, The Jolly Corner
Walter de la Mare, Seaton's Aunt
H. P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space

“The true weird tale has something more than a secret murder, bloody bones, or a sheeted form clanking chains. An atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; a hint of that most terrible conception of the human brain—a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those fixed laws of Nature which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons of unplumbed space.”—H. P. LovecraftAmbrose Bierce (1842–1914) was born in Ohio and served in the Civil War. A lifelong journalist, he disappeared mysteriously in Mexico in 1913 while on his way to meet Pancho Villa’s army. Among his works are two collections of stories, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians and Can Such Things Be?, and a brilliant satire, The Devil’s Dictionary.

Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951) was born into an upper-class British family. He emigrated to Americal)