The Colour Out of Space: Tales of Cosmic Horror

H. P. Lovecraft, Various. New York Review of Books, $13.95 (368pp) ISBN 978-1-59017-026-7

The Colour Out of Space: Tales of Cosmic Horror, selected by D. Thin, collects a dozen otherworldly stories by authors ranging from Edgar Allan Poe (""MS. Found in a Bottle"") to H.P. Lovecraft (the title tale). This choice anthology should help persuade skeptical mainstream readers that some horror fiction merits the label of ""literature.""

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