Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre
"Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me."  —Stephen King"He's an American original, whose influences on subsequent writers in the field is all-pervasive."  —Joyce Carol Oates"You need to read him—he's where the darkness starts."  —Neil Gaiman"H.P. Lovecraft is not only the essential link between Edgar Allan Poe and the present day, he has become an almost unimaginably influential force throughout the whole of our popular culture."  —Peter Straub