The Complete H. P. LOVECRAFT Reader (68 Stories Included) (Kindle Edition)

by H. P. Lovecraft (Author)

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(N.B.  this new edition has corrected the formatting issues that has been voiced by some Lovecraft fans...)

CONTENTS:

The Nameless City
The Festival
The Colour out of Space
The Call of Cthulhu
The Dunwich Horror
The Whisperer in Darkness
Dreams in the Witch-house
The Haunter of the Dark
The Shadow over Innsmouth
The Shadow out of Time
At the Mountain of Madness
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Azathoth
Beyond the Wall of Sleep
Celephais
Cool Air
Dagon
Ex Oblivione
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
From Beyond
He
Herbert West: Reanimator
Hypnos
Imprisoned with the Pharaohs
In the Vault
Medusa's Coil
Memory
Nyarlathotep
Pickman's Model
Poetry of the Gods
The Alchemist
The Beast in the Cave
The Book
The Cats of Ulthar
The Crawling Chaos
The Descendant
The Doom That Came to Sarnath
The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath
The Evil Clergyman
The Horror at Martin's Beach
The Horror at Red Hook
The Hound
The Lurking Fear
The Moon Bog
The Music of Erich Zann
The Other Gods
The Outsider
The Picture in the House
The Quest of Iranon
The Rats in the Walls
The Shunned House
The Silver Key
The Statement of Randolph Carter
The Strange High House in the Mist
The Street
The Temple
The Terrible Old Man
The Thing on the Doorstep
The Tomb
The Transition of Juan Romero
The Tree
The Unnamable
The White Ship
Through the Gates of the Silver Key
What the Moon Brings
Polaris
The Very Old Folk

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 1859 KB
• Publisher: Oak Grove (December 15, 2007)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0015T6D06
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #27,359 in Kindle Store (See Bestsellers in Kindle Store)

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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Kindle Edition: Great Author. Great Stories. terrible Formatting, August 22, 2008

By	Smokin Joe (San Diego) - See all my reviews

The stories themselves are terrific and stand alone in it's genre.
The formatting of this Kindle edition is terrible though.
The next story starts imediatly after the last so, depending on your font size, you frequently get the begining of a story in the middle of the page. I find this very annoying. I found the following Lovecraft collections much better.

Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft

The Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death

The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent collection, November 9, 2009

By	John P. (Kennett Square, PA USA) - See all my reviews

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I think this was the first complete Lovecraft collection to be published for the Kindle, and I snapped it up as soon as it came out. I have been extremely pleased with it -- it has a linked table of contents and far fewer typos than I typically see in Kindle reprints.

What more needs to be said? Lovecraft created his own bizarre universe, where the means of human extinction lives in the basement, or out in the well, or in that abandoned church across town or sleepy village down the road. There's nothing else quite like it.

4.0 out of 5 stars This collection "re-Kindled" my love for Lovecraft, December 7, 2008

By	Robert Burns "Robert Burns, author of The Uns... (Somewhere in Texas) - See all my reviews

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I've read quite a bit of Lovecraft over the years, but what really attracted me to this collection was that it had been "Kindle-lized." I have a similar anthology in hard cover, but it's too heavy to pack around and I don't spend that much time at home. So this is really a Kindle review. Having it -- and some other classics -- allows me to read on the plane, at the coffee shop or at the gym.

BTW, despite what some reviewers may say about the Kindle being clunky, it's still a great improvement over the Sony and comparable readers. I had the opportunity to look at the newest Sony e-book reader this weekend at Fry's The Sony's only advantage that I could see was that it does 8 shades of gray through black compared to my Kindle's four shades. This electronic-ink enhancement didn't make much difference in the readability of the text (a little but not much). It would I suppose make for better graphics, but that's one limitation I see in most Kindle edition -- whoever Kindle-lized the text didn't bother to mess with graphics,probably because there's a few hoops one has to jump through to make the graphics look good on the Kindle. I did the conversion to Kindle for my publisher, Swimming Kangaroo. I relied on "Graphics on the Kindle" by Manuel Burgos (available as a Kindle edition, of course) and IF Amazon ever deems to include it on my Novel's page, buy the Kindle edition to see what I mean. The Kindle edition will probably be $4, but the cover and the ten interior B&W illustrations look great. My author photo looks for you know what, but there wasn't much hope there anyway.

That's the one reason I probably rated this product four stars instead of five. It would have been cool to include some old-time pulp fiction images sprinkled through the text. It can be done so as to really add value to the product. Anyone that publishes to Kindle is missing an opportunity if they don't do so.