The stories you'll find in this volume are a good example of the different stages Lovecraft went through. From his stories of the early 1920s, where the influence of Poe and Lord Dunsany was perspired on every page, to "The Call of Cthulhu", one of his eight great works and top representative of the "Lovecraftian" style that made him a legend. "Lovecraft was an innate architect, and had very little painter; their colors are not authentic colors; are rather atmospheres or, to be precise, illuminations, whose sole function is to enhance the architectures described. He has a special predilection for the deadly glows of a gibby, decreasing moon; but it doesn't disloyaln the bloody, crimson explosion of a twilight or the crystal clearness of an inaccessible azur."