American writer H. P. Lovecraft never published a single book during his lifetime, publishing only in magazines. Recognition came to him decades after his death.

His work became an inexhaustible source of inspiration not only for the global book industry but also found expression in film and games. The large number of followers and continuators of Lovecraft's cycles rightfully gives him the right to be considered the main mythmaker of the 20th century.

Mystical stories on the brink of madness, in which dreams intertwine with reality—about the great deity Cthulhu and his worshipers, mysterious cults and rituals, ancient books and cities—in this collection of stories by the acknowledged master of supernatural horror.