The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories - H.P. Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi Collection of some of Lovecraft's best tales, majority are part of the Cthulhu mythos.
The editor of this collection has an extensive selection of footnotes for each story, which are all grouped at the back, so don't disrupt the flow (unless you keep flicking backwards and forwards). In themselves they make interesting reading.

The best author of pulp magazine horror and tales of the fantastic.