Robert Irwin Howard went down in history primarily as the founder of the “heroic fantasy” genre, but everything was equally successful in his pen: fantasy, adventure, westerns, historical and even sports prose. At the same time, Howard’s true passion, according to the testimony of contemporaries and the conclusions of researchers, was stories about the frightening and supernatural. Howard is one of the founders of the “Southern Gothic” genre, the brightest author in the galaxy of those who created the Universe of “Cthulhu Mythos” by H. P. Lovecraft, with whom he had a strong and long friendship. If you are again eager to touch the forbidden secrets of the Ancients, take this book and you will become truly scared! Howard's immortal works are harmoniously complemented by the frightening and mysterious illustrations of Vitaly Ilyin, as well as comments and notes by translator and literary critic Grigory Shokin.