H. P. Lovecraft Collection

This is a very attractive set & for the price, I was pleasantly surprised by the quality.The box is very thick card with a fabric top & a nice logo on the sides. The only disappointment is that the barcode is printed on the back of the box itself - such a pity it wasn't on a removable sticker or even a piece of paper within the clingfilm. Nevertheless, the back will usually not be visible when this set is displayed on a bookcase.The books themselves are small - a good size to take with you while travelling. They are nicely bound with good quality paper & nice fabric covers which are a joy to touch & smell (and who doesn't like smelling new books?!). The title & the pattern on each front cover is also indented, making it even more tactile.When I first came across Lovecraft's work, it was in the form of old paperbacks printed in (I think) the '50's or '60's which had titles such as 'The Dunwich Horror And Other Stories', just like this volume. But these are not collected in the same way. Here, the stories are collected by theme, so the more famous stories are kept together, as are the Randolph Carter stories & tales set in the dreamlands - which is a very good system. Another minor disappointment is that the introduction (which consists primarily of general background about Lovecraft) is the same in every book, except for one paragraph which relates to the book in question. As this is a set, it would have been nice to have a different intro for each one, which would have given the publishers a chance to provide more information. But it's the stories themselves which hare the stars of the show.This is not a complete collection & nor does it claim to be. But all of Lovecraft's best & most influential works are here. Comparing the contents of this one to a complete collected volume which I also own, I do not feel that I have been short-changed in buying this set. Indeed, I am more likely to read this edition because having Lovecraft's work split into several smaller volumes instead of one breeze-block of a thing is much easier on my wrists, plus the fabric covers are a joy to hold. Recommended.UPDATE - This box-set edition has a contents page in each volume (as per the photograph I have added) & page numbers. I presume that the reviews which say otherwise are referring to the Kindle version (which I have not seen, so don't know whether it has a contents page or not) of a different edition.

Its a book, you place it in front of your face and read the squiggles.

I got the hardcover version of this for my boyfriend as a birthday gift. The books themselves are beautiful. There seems to be no specific order to read the books in, but many sites recommend starting with the Call of C'thulhu to get into the Lovecraft universe. The delivery time was a little long, but I also live in Denmark and I'm sure it would have been shorter, had it not been for the Covid-19 situation.Thank you! :)

This boxed set is of a really good quality: the paper is thick and the covers are nice to the touch and well designed. I can completely recommend it to any person that likes Lovecraft and wants to have the complete set of stories. There is a similar boxed set about H. G. Wells that is of the same quality and I recommend as well.Lovecraft wrote horror stories avoiding the common clichés of the genre by adding science-fiction influences to the plot. Some of these tales are, for example, about witchcraft or esoteric threats; but the story includes other worlds or alien creatures. The threat or antagonist comes often from a wider inhuman cosmos that is hostile or indiferent to humanity. Lovecraft created his own personal mythology and has later influenced other author's fiction.One of the books had a printing defect and after contacting the editorial (Arcturus Publishing) they sent me a replacement in a couple of days, and they were really nice about it. It's a small independent company and they are doing these beautiful editions, so I thought that it would be good to leave them a positive review.

The books arrived sooner than I expected and they look wonderful! I just want to emphasize the fact that each book DOES have a table of contents AND the fact that the pages are numbered. ( I saw a lot of reviews stating the contrary- not true! ) Looking forward to reading them!