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A collection of the texts that influenced H.P. Lovecraft and his world (includes stories, poems and novels).Martin Monreal and Gabriela Garcia are the editors of the following anthologies: Masters of Horror, Suspense and the Supernatural: 100 Stories, The Vampire Genome: The Best Vampire Stories, Poems and Essays, Trail of the Necronomicon: An Anthology of the Stories and Novels that Influenced H.P. Lovecraft, TWILIGHT CREATURES: 40 Stories of Vampires, Werewolves, and other Unspeakable Beings, and Love Hurts: the Best Vampire, Gothic and Supernatural Romances.TABLE OF CONTENTSDreamland (1844) by Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849The Satyricon (excerpts) (c. 37) by Petronius Arbiter, 20-66Translator: W. C. FirebaughPanthia and Meroe (from The Golden Ass) by Lucius Apuleius125?-180Translator: Adlington, WilliamThe Secret History of the Court of Justinian (excerpt) by Procopius (Sixth Century)Grendel (from Beowulf) (8th century?)Trans: Frances GummereLucifer (from The Divine Comedy) (1320) by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)Trans: Henry W. LongfellowThe Corpse (from Morte d’Arthur) by Sir Thomas Malory 1400-1470Daemonologie (1597) by King James I (1566 –1625)Animal Sacrifices (1913) by Sir James George Frazer 1854-1941The Werewolf as Psychopompos (1872) by John Fiske 1842-1901Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came (1855) by Robert Browning 1812-1889The mental traveler (1803) by William Blake 1757-1827Frankenstein (excerpt) (1819) by Mary Shelley 1797-1851The Vampyre (1818) by John Polidori 1795-1821Lamia (1919) by John Keats 1795-1821The Ballad of the Ancient Mariner (1798) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)The Ring: A Tale (1852) by Thomas Moore (1779 – 1852)Wandering Willie's Tale (1824) by Walter Scott 1771-1832 (Scottish)The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar (1845) by Edgard Allan Poe 1809-1849Ethan Brand by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 -1864)The Devil and Tom Walker (1824) byWashigton Irving 1783-1859Homeward Bound (1824) by Heinrich Heine 1797-1856Translated by Emma LazarusTam O’Shanter (1790) by Burns, Robert, 1759-1796The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens 1812-1870The Werewolf (from The Phantom Ship) (1896) by Frederick Marryat, 1792-1848The Temptations of St. Anthony (excerpt)) 1874 by Gustave Flaubert 1821-1880Trans: Lafcadio HearnThe Horla (1886) by Guy de Maupassant 1850-1893Torture by Hope by Villiers de l’Isle-Adam 1838-1889The Body-Snatcher (1884) By Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 – 1894The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 1843 – 1916The upper berth (1894) by Francis Marion Crawford 1854-1909The Yellow Sign (1895) by Robert Chambers 1802-1871The Yellow Wallpaper (1893)Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860 1935The Monkey’s Paw (1902) by William Wymark Jacobs 1863-1943The Story of a Panic (1912) by E.M. Forster, 1879-1970The Damned Thing (1893) Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914The Shadows on the Wall (1903) Mary Freeman Wilkins 1852-1930The Dead Valley (1895) by Ralph Adams Cram 1863-1942The Mark of the Beast (1915) by Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936The Burial of the Rats (1914) by Bram Stoker 1847-1912The Were-wolf (1896) by Clemence Housman, 1861-1955The Listeners by Walter de la Mare 1873-1956The Horror of the Heights by Arthur Conan Doyle 1859-1930The Shadow-Line (1917) by Joseph Conrad 1857-1924The White People (1922) by Arthur Machen 1863-1947The Wendigo by Algernon Henry Blackwood, 1869 - 1951Bethmoora (1910) by Lord Dunsany Lord Dunsany 1878- 1957The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1904) by M.R. James 1862-1936The Plattner Story (1896) by Herbert George Wells 1866-1946NOVELSWieland; or, The Transformation (1798) by Charles Brockden Brown, 1771-1810Melmoth the Wanderer (Excerpts) (1820) by Charles Robert Maturin, 1782-1824The Amber Witch (1846) by Wilhelm Meinhold 1797-1851Translated by Lucie Duff GordonZanoni (1842) by Edward Bulwer Lytton 1803-1873The House on the Borderland (1908) by William Hope Hogdson
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