Beautifully bound hardcover book. The cover illustration is holographic and sets the tone for the tales to follow, the pages have good slick texture, the binding has some sort of silvery finish to it giving it a very vintage feel. It's very well bound and the leather cover and ribs on the spine are a good aesthetic touch. Lovecraft's stories are of course a treat to read and one can trace the evolution of his style because of the chronological order in which the stories appear and due to introductory snippets before each. A must have article in a fan's collection. I loved it. Read more

I'm new to H.P. Lovecraft and when scouring the web for recommendations on decent psychological horror, numerous sites and blogs pointed me to this celebrated author. On searching Amazon UK, the first page of results pointed me to this particular Barnes and Noble edition and I bought it. It arrived well packaged - there were no scuffs or marks or squashed edges that I've read about on other websites, including Barnes and Noble's own. My only issue is that the book itself isn't leather and so I don't believe it should be listed as such. I don't actually mind as it's still a beautiful and strong edition, and the paper isn't too thin, but some may find this misleading. After some browsing I discovered that the first edition of this particular collection was filled with spelling errors and other typos. The edition I received is apparently the second edition, which gives thanks to Martin Andersson for his help in the preparation of texts. I bought my copy from Amazon in August 2012, so hopefully anyone else that orders it will presumably get the corrected edition too, however it does contain a few typos still. The stories themselves are wonderful, and as I've only read a few so far it would be foolish of me to rate them all, but I love what I've read so far and it was just the very thing I was looking for. If you're a fan of psychological horror, then this edition is for you. Read more

This book - or "evil bible", if you let me - is something incredible! I don't want to waste words describing the author (Lovecraft says it all), i just want to use some to describe this relic. It's great, the pages have a silver border which gives to the book a true ancient vibe. It has a really good purple bookmark and the cover - as in the picture - is as colorful as marvellous! I bought a second handed version but it looks like the new one! Maybe my best purchase ever! Read more

Very good collection. And the book is very sturdy. This is the version with the fixes to the many typo's in the old version. And for anyone who's curious, the font type for this edition is very different from the font in the clothbound Knickerbocker edition. This Barnes and Nobles leatherbound edition has a better, more classy looking font style in my opinion than the Knickerbocker edition's font. The knickerbocker's texts are slightly larger, but the font style on that edition makes the letters look very thin and unattractive (although the clothbinding of the knickerbocker edition is quite nice). Overall I'd stick with the Barnes and Nobles leather edition for the better style font and the Joshi introductions although the cover art and clothbinding of the knickerbocker edition is nice. Read more

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A great collection of the best clsssical horror writter. Just buy it, and enter in the unphatomed, cosmic and obscure world of H P Lovecraft! Despite of his colossal mithology, the point that most drags me to his stories is the description of the human despair, and insanity facing the "unknown". Get it! Read more

Esta edición incluye todos los escritos creados por H.P Lovecraft. El libro los incluye de manera cronológica en un solo libro, en inglés, pasta dura, todo empacado en una caja adicional sumamente bella. El libro es ENORME y pesado, por lo que si gustas de leer en transportes o trayectos quizá no sea conveniente por lo grande que es, me hubiera gustado que la caja dividiera las historias en 2 o 3 tomos dentro de la misma caja para poder cargarlos mas sencillamente, pero eso es un capricho mio. El libro está excelente, si te gusta el trabajo de Lovecraft o deseas conocer sus historias, es una excelente opción, el precio se me hace el adecuado debido a lo bello del libro y al ser todos los cuentos creados por el autor. Read more

I ordered this book alongside two other Knickerbocker classics slipcase editions: The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe and The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales. The trio makes a delightfully macabre centerpiece for my bookshelf. The books are not only beautifully, but also sturdily bound, such that they can, despite their bulk, sit open without stressing their spines. They are all sturdy enough to stand upright without requiring propping. This book, being the bulkiest of the bunch, is definitely a lap book—though, I must say, for such a sizeable volume, it is considerably lighter than I expected. This is probably owed to the thinness of the pages (which is normally something that I take issue with; however, in the case of this book, I understand that fashioning them in the kind of tome-like thickness that I enjoy would require either splitting this book into at least two volumes or completely nullifying its portability.) As some reviewers have pointed out, this edition is NOT complete in the absolute sense; it is lacking in a few poems and lesser-known tales. It is, however, as complete of a compendium as I could find on the market, and it is DEFINITELY as complete as you’ll find in such a collector’s quality edition. Other than that, the book arrived in stellar condition (but, because I’m nit-picky, I will mention that the built-in ribbon marker had a few drops of dried glue and some rumpling at the top, where it attaches to the spine. Also, the font could have afforded to be a tad darker.). All in all, I am very pleased with this purchase. Be it for collecting or gift-giving, I highly recommend this edition for fans of the cosmically horrific. Read more

As a longtime fan of Lovecraft's literature and cosmic horror themes in general, I must say this is really amazing. The complete original works of Lovecraft, stories and poems are all included. The page quality is just wonderful, and the cover art is simply astonishing. The silver shiny edge of the pages is also a lovely bonus. A must have for any Lovecraft fan or collector. One of the best published collection of the complete works of Lovecraft. The delivery was also speedy and the book came in good packaging as well! Read more

Credo la miglior edizione in lingua originale di H.P. Lovecraft. Un autore che consiglio a tutti di leggere in originale. In lingua italiana è tradotto benissimo, assolutamente; però si perde dall'inglese tutta quella scelta di parole e musicalità (allitterazioni e via discorrendo) che accresce ancora di più l'importanza di questo scrittore, che per troppo tempo è stato misconosciuto dai più e relegato in una nicchia di un genere grandemente sottovalutato! Bellissima la copertina (finalmente niente mostri a caso, né tentacoli), pagine con gli estremi in argento e segnalibro. Fatevi un piacere! Compratela! Read more

Good bok, nice looking but some of the pages was stuck together with the silver color. Read more

So many Lovecraft collections are merely picks by some editor, and not complete. This one appears to have everything - 68 stories in all plus some extra "juvenalia" that I didn't expect. Awesome! After reading some other reviews on here, I was afraid I was going to get some cheap bootleg thing, and incomplete. No, this is a Barnes & Noble edition. Table of contents, stories page separated, and very nicely bound with one of those cloth strip bookmarks. The type is small, but it was either that or a huge dictionary-esque thing. There's a lot here. Reanimator, Kadath, Chtlulu, Mountains, all of it. Read more