This was the collection of Lovecraft stories that I read in 1992 that really and truly hooked me for life on Lovecraft. I'd read a little #Lovecraft in the late 1980s, mostly because I was fascinated with Stephen King and the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game. But, for whatever reason, didn't really get into it until after I graduated high school. From there, I was fascinated with the alt.horror.cthulhu community of fans and researchers, and TSOU (The Shadow over USEnet) was an incredible, emergent bit of research on Lovecraft works through the 1990s.

Anyway, you don't have to buy this particular edition, though the cover art is quite excellent. All of Lovecraft's works are freely available thanks to the generosity of Donovan K. Loucks.