This volume contains the stories that nearly everyone agrees are the best work of H.P. Lovecraft's life. Chronologically, it is the second book in a three-volume omnibus set comprising the complete fictional works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft.

Highlights of this volume include:

• Cool Air
• The Call of Cthulhu
• Pickman's Model
• The Colour out of Space
• The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
• The Dunwich Horror
• The Whisperer in Darkness
• At the Mountains of Madness
• The Shadow over Innsmouth
• The Dreams in the Witch House
• The Thing on the Doorstep
• The Shadow out of Time
• The Haunter of the Dark