Per la prima volta riuniti in un'unica raccolta, i casi e le avventure del detective Solar Pons, lo Sherlock Holmes di Praed Street e suo degno successore, generato dalla penna dello scrittore americano August Derleth.

August Derleth è noto soprattutto per essere stato il primo a pubblicare per i tipi di Arkham House - la casa editrice appositamente fondata - l'opera di H.P. Lovecraft, oltre ad aver coniato il termine 'Miti di Cthulhu'. Fu egli stesso autore di numerose opere, spesso collaborazioni postume con Lovecraft basate su appunti lasciati dal Maestro, fino a comporre una sorta di canone apocrifo. Il volume, curato da Massimo Scorsone, contiene infatti il romanzo Il guardiano della soglia, tre raccolte di racconti (La Lampada di Alhazred, La maschera di Cthulhu e L'orma di Cthulhu, le ultime due tradotte per la prima volta in italiano) e quattro componimenti lovecraftiani in versi. Un punto di riferimento imprescindibile per la ricostruzione della vulgata horror ispirata all'opera del Solitario di Providence, necessario complemento dei testi raccolti nel Drago Miti di Cthulhu.

The planet Yith is the home of the Great Race, a place inspiring H.P. Lovecraft and other authors to pen classic tales of travel through Time and Space. In “The Shadow Out of Time' (here with new, purified text) there is implicit a very different view of Homo Sapiens origins, derived directly from the modern mythology of the Theosophical Society. HPL often mentioned Theosophy as a kind of foil and precedent for his own Mythos in his stories. This collection includes tales of Yith both famous and obscure, replete with time travel, mind-exchange, and thrilling vistas of primordial history set in context that enables new readers and long-time Lovecraftian fans alike to enjoy them.Includes short stories by H.P. Lovecraft, August W. Derleth, Richard L. Tierney and many others.This book is part of an expanding collection of Cthulhu Mythos horror fiction and related topics. Call of Cthulhu fiction focuses on single entities, concepts, or authors significant to readers and fans of H.P. Lovecraft.

Venture at your own risk into a realm where the sun sinks into oblivion–and all that is unholy, unearthly, and unspeakable rises. These rare, hard-to-find collaborations of cosmic terror are back in print, including

• Wentworth's Day A fellow figures his debt to a dead man is null and void, until he discovers just how terrifying interest rates can be.

• The Shuttered Room A sophisticated gentleman must settle his grandfather's estate, only to find that the house shelters dark secrets.

• The Dark Brotherhood A beautiful woman and her companion meet the likes of Edgar Allan Poe, in a tale as terrifying as anything Poe himself ever created.

• Innsmouth Clay A sculptor returns from Paris to create a statue not entirely of this world–and not at all under his control.

• Witches' Hollow A new schoolteacher puts his soul in peril while trying to save one of his students from a ravenous creature.

A biography of the French Catholic priest who arrived in Canada in 1666 to serve as a missionary, and became part of the first group of white men to travel down the Mississippi River and back.