Books in the Penguin Gothic Classics series

Deadly forces are about to be awakened In the degenerate, unliked backwater of Dunwich, Wilbur Whately, a most unusual child, is born. Of unnatural parentage, he grows at an uncanny pace to an unsettling height, but the boy s arrival simply precedes that of a true horror: one of the Old Ones, that forces the people of the town to hole up by night, fearful for their lives, by day able only to trace the wreckage wrought by the gigantic, unseen monster.In this and other tales of the macabre, H. P. Lovecraft weaves unearthly fantasies of creatures beyond conception existing between the spaces of the dimensions we know.

However you try to escape it, horror is always there Outside the abbey s armoured walls, the common poor are ravaged by a grisly pestilence known as the Red Death , while within, safe and untroubled, the happy Prince Prospero hosts lavish entertainments. But, in their immodest comfort, the Prince and his guests are not as safe as they hope from the horrors of the outside world In The Masque of the Red Death and other tales of gothic horror, Edgar Allan Poe writes as no one else ever has of creeping, mounting terrors of torments of ingenious, malevolent tormentors and of a mind s own sickening madness.