This is Volume One of a two-volume omnibus set comprising the complete fictional works of Howard Phillips Lovcecraft. Every story written for publication under his own name is included in this set, from 1917 through 1935. (Poems, ghost-written material and stories written in collaboration with other writers are not included.)

Highlights of this volume include:
- Dagon
- The Doom that Came to Sarnath
- The Music of Erich Zann
- Herbert West, Reanimator
- The Hound
- The Lurking Fear
- The Rats in the Walls
- The Shunned House
- The Horror at Red Hook
- In the Vault
- The Call of Cthulhu
- The Strange High House in the Mist
- The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath