The Dreams in the Witch House

One of the masters of 'weird fiction', H. P. Lovecraft expanded the vast boundaries of the horror genre with his vividly imagined stories of exotic and fantastical otherworlds, nightmarish dreamscapes and the supernatural terrors lurking beneath the surface of small-town America. The shadow of New England's witch-hunting past hangs over many of the tales, as in 'The Shunned House' and 'The Dreams in the Witch House', in which malevolent spectres return to haunt the region. Others, such as 'From Beyond' and 'The Shadow Out of Time', depict the catastrophic results when cosmic channels of time and space are opened, while stories such as 'Polaris' and 'The Doom that Came to Sarnath' portray the downfall of mythical civilizations.

H. P. Lovecraft (Author) H. P. Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1890. Self-educated, he worked as a freelance writer, journalist and ghostwriter. His best work - including some sixty or so short stories - was published from 1923 onwards in the pulp magazine Weird Tales. He died in 1937, in poverty and virtually unknown; today he is recognized as one of the great masters of supernatural fiction.

The Dreams in the Witch House And Other Weird StoriesIntroduction by S.T. Joshi Suggestions for Further Reading A Note on the Texts Polaris The Doom That Came to Sarnath The Terrible Old Man The Tree The Cats of Ulthar From Beyond The Nameless City The Moon-Bog The Other Gods Hypnos The Lurking Fear The Unnamable The Shunned house The Horror at Red Hook In the Vault The Strange High House in the Mist The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath The Silver Key Through the Gates of the Silver Key THe Dreams in the Witch House The Shadow out of Time Explanatory Notes