Arthur Machen

Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series. I will not read it; I should never sleep again A doctor performs an experiment on a young woman that goes horribly wrong, and a series of increasingly strange events follow—sinister woodland rituals, disappearances, suicides... Viewed as immoral and decadent on first publication in 1894, Machen's weird...

This luxurious hardback compendium showcases the very best of the cosmic horror genre through 10 classic tales, beautifully presented with gilded page edges, patterned endpapers, and cover embossing. The Necronomicon is a fictional book of dark magic that appears in several of H. P. Lovecraft's stories. With its ancient evils and long-forgotten secrets, it symbolises the essence of cosmic horror...