Cthulhu, Azathoh, Nyarlathotep, Dagon, Shub-Niggurath, Yog-Sothoth... names that evoke terror and heart-quavering nightmares. These and many more are The Great Old Ones. Among them are the Outer Gods, the Great Ones, the Elder Gods, and other nameless horrors from the darkest imaginings.

These are their stories. Here are the tales of the Great Old Ones.

Gathered in Tales of the Great Old Ones: The Collected Cthulhu Mythos are the many fascinating horrific tales of the Lovecraft Mythos, the imaginary mythical backdrop, settings, stories, characters, lore, and themes developed by H. P. Lovecraft in his "Cthulhu Mythos".

Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos is the foundation of a fictional myth-cycle first recognized and developed by the writer August Derleth, placing some of Lovecraft's stories into a distinct category. These stories focus on The Great Old Ones, elder gods, and unspeakable horrors, along with lost civilizations and the fate of man when faced with unfathomable and unspeakable truths. Lovecraft's peers built on and around this mythos just as he built on his predecessors.

Collected in Tales of the Great Old Ones: The Collected Cthulhu Mythos are the following tales of weird fiction, cosmic horrors, and soul-crushing madness:

Pre-Lovecraft Mythos

Haïta the Shepherd, 1893 by Ambrose Bierce
The King in Yellow, 1895 by Robert W. Chambers, including:

The Repairer of Reputations
The Mask
In the Court of the Dragon
The Yellow Sign
The Demoiselle d'Ys
The Prophets' Paradise
The Street of the Four Winds
The Street of the First Shell
The Street of Our Lady of the Fields
Rue Barrée

Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos

Dagon, 1919
Nyarlathotep, 1920
The Statement of Randolph Carter, 1920
The Crawling Chaos, 1921
The Nameless City, 1921
The Picture in the House, 1921
Herbert West: Reanimator, 1922
The Hound, 1922
The Festival, 1923
Under the Pyramids, 1924
The Colour Out of Space, 1927
The Call of Cthulhu, 1926
The Dunwich Horror, 1929
The Whisperer in Darkness, 1931
The Dreams in the Witch-House, 1933
From Beyond, 1934
Through the Gates of the Silver Key, 1934, by H. P. Lovecraft and E. Hoffmann Price
At the Mountains of Madness, 1936
The Haunter of the Dark, 1936
The Shadow Out of Time, 1936
The Shadow Over Innsmouth, 1936
The Thing on the Doorstep, 1937
Azathoth written in 1922
The Descendant, 1938
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward written in 1927
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath written in 1926-27

Cthulhu Mythos of Lovecraft's Contemporaries

The Thing From—"Outside", 1923 by George Allan England
The Space-Eaters, 1928 by Frank Belknap Long
The Hounds of Tindalos, 1929 by Frank Belknap Long
The Curse of Yig, 1929 by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop
The Tale of Satampra Zeiros, 1931 by Clark Ashton Smith
People of the Dark, 1932 by Robert E. Howard
The Horror in the Museum, 1933 by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald
The Haunter of the Ring, 1934 by Robert E. Howard
The Challenge from Beyond, 1935 by Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, H. P. Lovecraft, A. Merrit and C. L. Moore
The Secret of Kralitz, 1936 by Henry Kuttner
The Horror in the Burying-Ground, 1937 by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald
Dig Me No Grave, 1937 by Robert Ervin Howard
Medusa's Coil, 1939 by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop

This extensive volume includes numerous haunting illustrations inspired by the Cthulhu mythos and its cosmic horrors. Also included is an interactive table of contents so readers do not lose their minds or get lost in other dimensions.