An excellent showcase of some of HPL's less appreciated works. I'll add to it my love for the story "He," which for some reason gets routinely labeled as one of his "worst." It resonates on numerous levels - as a NYer who has spent untold hours obsessing over the NYC of the 19th and early 20th Centuries (right up to HPL's own time there a century ago), hating the contemporary version and wishing to really see the old form of it up close - how fascinating to see Lovecraft abhor the NYC of his day, and, in the story, to seek out a mage to help him see even further back ("Can you - dare you - go far?"). And for me, when I read that story, Lovecraft himself is the mage, taking me back a century and more through the decrepit courtyards of Greenwich Village, described vividly; brought to life in a way just as I've seen it myself many times before, but only in dreams.
