From the fictional land of Carcosa that inspired the HBO show True Detective to
H. P. Lovecraft’s accursed New England hills, this collection features
some of the most legendary landscapes of the cosmic horror genre. The
collection includes the following twelve stories:

Edgar Allan Poe, MS. Found in a Bottle

Bram Stoker, The Squaw

Ambrose Bierce, Moxon’s Master

Ambrose Bierce, The Damned Thing

Ambrose Bierce, An Inhabitant of Carcosa

R. W. Chambers, The Repairer of Reputations

M. P. Shiel, The House of Sounds

Arthur Machen, The White People

Algernon Blackwood, The Willows

Henry James, The Jolly Corner

Walter de la Mare, Seaton’s Aunt

H. P. Lovecraft, The Colour Out of Space

The
true weird tale has something more than a secret murder, bloody bones,
or a sheeted form clanking chains. An atmosphere of breathless and
unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; a hint of
that most terrible conception of the human brain-a malign and particular suspension or defeat of those fixed laws of Nature which are our only safeguard against the assaults of chaos and the daemons of unplumbed space. -H. P. Lovecraft