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10 best books like Tales (H.P. Lovecraft): Later Novels and Other Writings: The Lady in the Lake / The Little Sister / The Long Goodbye / Playback / Double Indemnity (screenplay) / Selected Essays and Letters, Tales and Sketches, Tales Of The Uncanny And Supernatural, Complete Stories 1892–1898, An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia, Novels 1955–1962: Lolita / Pnin / Pale Fire / Lolita: A Screenplay, Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories / Letting Go, Novels 1942–1952: The Moon Is Down / Cannery Row / The Pearl / East of Eden, Collected Plays 1944-1961, Crime Stories and Other Writings

Later Novels and Other Writings: The Lady in the Lake / The Little Sister / The Long Goodbye / Playback / Double Indemnity (screenplay) / Selected Essays and Letters
AuthorRaymond Chandler
ISBN1883011086
With humor, along with an unerring sense of dialogue and the telling details of dress and behavior, Raymond Chandler created a distinctive fictional universe out of the dark side of sunlit Los Angeles. In the process, he transformed both crime writing and the American language.

Written during...
Tales and Sketches
AuthorNathaniel Hawthorne
ISBN0940450038
This Library of America volume offers what no reader has ever been able to find—an authoritative edition of all the tales and sketches of Nathaniel Hawthorne in a single comprehensive volume. Everything is included from his three books of stories, Twice-told Tales (1837, revised 1851), Mosses...
Tales Of The Uncanny And Supernatural
AuthorAlgernon Blackwood
ISBN0600038505
Tales include The Doll, Running Wolf, The Little Beggar, The Occupant of the Room, The Man Whom the Trees Loved, The Valley of the Beasts, The South Wind, The Man Who Was Milligan, The Trod, The Terror of the Twins, The Deferred Appointment, Accessory Before the Fact, The Glamour of the Snow, The House...
Complete Stories 1892–1898
AuthorHenry James
ISBN1883011094
This Library of America volume is one of five that make available for the first time in new, complete, and authoritative editions the astonishing abundance of invention and unwavering intensity of the aesthetic vision of Henry James as displayed in more than one hundred world-famous stories ranging...
An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia
AuthorS.T. Joshi
H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) is commonly regarded as the leading author of supernatural fiction in the 20th century. He is distinctive among writers in having a tremendous popular following as well as a considerable and increasing academic reputation as a writer of substance and significance. This...
Novels 1955–1962: Lolita / Pnin / Pale Fire / Lolita: A Screenplay
AuthorVladimir Nabokov
ISBN1883011191
This Library of America volume is the second of three volumes that contain the most authoritative versions of the English works of the brilliant Russian émigré, Vladimir Nabokov.

Lolita (1955), Nabokov’s single most famous work, is one of the most controversial and widely read books...
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories / Letting Go
AuthorPhilip Roth
ISBN1931082790
"The title novella, Goodbye, Columbus, the story of a summer romance between a poor young man from Newark and a rich Radcliffe co-ed, is both a tightly wrought tale of youthful desire and a satiric gem that takes aim at the comfortable affluence of the postwar boom. Here and in the stories that accompany...
Novels 1942–1952: The Moon Is Down / Cannery Row / The Pearl / East of Eden
AuthorJohn Steinbeck
ISBN1931082073
The third volume in The Library of America’s authoritative edition of John Steinbeck’s writings shows him continuing to explore new subject matter and new approaches to storytelling. These four novels display the versatility and emotional directness that have made Steinbeck one of America’s...
Collected Plays 1944-1961
AuthorArthur Miller
In the inaugural volume of its collected edition of Miller's plays, The Library of America gathers the works from the 1940s and 1950s that electrified theatergoers and established Miller as one of the indispensable voices of the postwar era. Among the plays included are All My Sons, the story of an industrialist...
Crime Stories and Other Writings
AuthorDashiell Hammett
ISBN1931082006
In scores of stories written for Black Mask and other pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, Dashiell Hammett used the vernacular adventure tale to register the jarring textures and revved-up cadences of modern America. His stories opened up crime fiction to the realities of American streets and American...
The Devil’s Dictionary / Tales, & Memoirs
AuthorAmbrose Bierce
ISBN1598531026
A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the civil War—among them Shiloh, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and Kennesaw Mountain—Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death-haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists. A prolific journalist who made...
Novels, 1926-1929
AuthorWilliam Faulkner
ISBN1931082898
The Library of America edition of the novels of William Faulkner culminates with this volume presenting his first four, each newly edited, and, in many cases, restored with passages that were altered or (in the case of Mosquitoes) expurgated by the original publishers. This is Faulkner as he was meant...
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
AuthorPeter Straub
“There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Thing on the Doorstep



It is not an easy task to accomplish, to create a book of almost 800 pages which can keep you glued...
Children of Lovecraft
AuthorEllen Datlow
ISBN1506700047
Howard Phillips Lovecraft's stories shaped modern horror more than any other author's in the last two centuries: Cthulhu, the Old Ones, Herbert West: Reanimator, and more terrifying nightmares emerged from the mythos of this legendary writer.

Dark Horse teams up with Hugo and Bram Stoker...
Novels & Stories: The Lottery / The Haunting of Hill House / We Have Always Lived in the Castle / Other Stories and Sketches
AuthorShirley Jackson
ISBN1598530720
“The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable,” writes A. M. Homes. “It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny and clear there is always the threat of darkness looming, of things taking a turn for the worse.” Jackson’s characters–mostly...
Four Novels of the 1960s: The Man in the High Castle / The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch / Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Ubik
AuthorPhilip K. Dick
ISBN1598530097
Known in his lifetime primarily to readers of science fiction, Philip K. Dick is now seen as a uniquely visionary figure, a writer who, in editor Jonathan Lethem’s words, “wielded a sardonic yet heartbroken acuity about the plight of being alive in the twentieth century, one that makes him a lonely...
Fruiting Bodies and Other Fungi
AuthorBrian Lumley
ISBN0140173021
Thirteen terrifying tales from the master of horror who created the nationally bestselling Necroscope series. The title story, "Fruiting Bodies," in which a small village slowly disappears, won the British Fantasy Award. "The Viaduct," is the story of two young boys who learn the truth about fear...
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