The Early Cosmic Horror MEGAPACK®: 21 Stories of Cosmic Horror Before H.P. Lovecraft

The stories in this collection were first published between 1841 to 1913, representing seven decades of development in weird fiction that established cosmic horror as one of literature's most distinctive and disturbing genres. Together, they form an essential library of the uncanny, documenting humanity's growing awareness of its cosmic insignificance and the terrible price of that knowledge.

These stories were highly influential, and they shaped H.P. Lovecraft's view of fantasy, He drew inspiration from their rich heritage for the Cthulhu Mythos and his greatest horror stories.

Included are:

• THE WILLOWS, by Algernon Blackwood
• AN INHABITANT OF CARCOSA, by Ambrose Bierce
• SREDNI VASHTAR, by Saki
• OH, WHISTLE AND I’LL COME TO YOU, MY LAD, by M. R. James
• THE NOVEL OF THE WHITE POWDER, by Arthur Machen
• THE YELLOW SIGN, by Robert W. Chambers
• THE DAMNED THING, by Ambrose Bierce
• THE VOICE IN THE NIGHT, by William Hope Hodgson
• THE HORROR OF THE HEIGHTS, by Arthur Conan Doyle
• VAILA, by M. P. Shiel
• LUKUNDOO, by Edward Lucas White
• THE GROVE OF ASHTAROTH, by John Buchan
• THE WHITE WOLF OF THE HARTZ MOUNTAINS, by Frederick Marryat
• THE MAN WHO WENT TOO FAR, by E. F. Benson
• THE DEAD VALLEY, by Ralph Adams Cram
• MUJINA, by Lafcadio Hearn
• AMOUR DURE, by Vernon Lee
• LUELLA MILLER, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTRÖM, by Edgar Allan Poe
• WHAT WAS IT? by Fitz-James O’Brien
• GREEN TEA, by Joseph Sheridan LeFanu