The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories, H.P. Lovecraft

The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories, H.P. LovecraftNew Paperback One of the masters of 'weird fiction', H. P. Lovecraft expanded the vast boundaries of the horror genre with his vividly imagined stories of exotic and fantastical otherworlds, nightmarish dreamscapes and the supernatural terrors lurking beneath the surface of small town America. The shadow of New England's witch hunting past hangs over many of the tales, as in 'The Shunned House' and 'The Dreams in the Witch House', in which malevolent

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