The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

Author(s): H. P. Lovecraft

Sci Fi/Fantasy

Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Phillips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. This definitive collection reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonical--and visionary--American writer.


 


Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback


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Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books - 50 Covers competition

I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale - Stephen King

Born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1890, Lovecraft was self-educated and lived in his birthplace all his life, working as a freelance writer, journalist, and ghostwriter. Using many pen names, he contributed his supernatural/horror and science fiction/fantasy stories to various pulp magazines but his reputation as a writer rests mainly on the 60 or so stories he published in Weird Tales starting in 1923. He died in 1937.

General Fields

  • : 9780143106487
  • : Penguin Publishing Group
  • : Penguin Publishing Group
  • : 0.484
  • : July 2011
  • : 216mm X 135mm X 33mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : January 2012
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : H. P. Lovecraft
  • : Paperback
  • : De Luxe edition
  • : English
  • : 813/.52
  • : 448
  • : FM