One of things that makes H. P. Lovecraft's stories such chillers is not that he is writing about ghosts or things supernatural. Most of the horrors he posits in his stories are actual, physical presences, often some unutterably ghastly freak of Nature.

Two of his stories that are pretty well guaranteed to make you lock the doors and windows, arm yourself with a machine gun and a flame thrower, and back into a corner so that you can see anything coming at you are Pickman's Model and The Lurking Fear.

But before you back into that corner, be sure to look and make certain that nothing is already there, waiting for you. . . .

Don Firth