Other Gods and Other Stories

Howard Phillips Lovecraft, who published no books during his lifetime, became a beacon and a guide for an entire genre, an idol for both broad reading masses and refined intellectuals, an inexhaustible source of inspiration for filmmakers, and his very name became a household term.

Borges himself admired his stories, in which the place of man is on the distant periphery of the universal scheme of things, and otherworldly forces instill in the souls of the reckless a sacred horror.

Thus, we present to you the novellas and stories of one of the most influential myth-makers of the twentieth century, all in exemplary translations.