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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cthulhu's Librarian" data-source="post: 1630502" data-attributes="member: 11064">Skip the Del Rey editions. While they may be the most popular editions, they have some bad edits in them and are not the definitive corrected texts that later printings of the stories use for publication. (I'm not trying to be disagreeable with others here, but if you want to read the stories, you might as well read them the way Lovecraft meant for them to be read without several generations of editors changes to the stories)  The two best books to start with (and also easily found) are both published by Penguin Books in their Twentieth Century Classics line.   <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0141182342/qid=1088602574/sr=1-9/ref=sr_1_9/104-2208913-7951914?v=glance&s=books" target="_blank">The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories</a> edited by S.T. Joshi <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0142180033/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1/104-2208913-7951914?v=glance&s=books&st=*" target="_blank">The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories</a> edited by S.T. Joshi  As for my favorite stories, I've always been fond of The Rats in the Walls, The Colour Out of Space, The Dunwich Horror, The Music of Erich Zann, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Call of Cthulhu, and At the Mountains of Madness.</blockquote>