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Collecting uniquely uncanny tales from the master of American horror, H.P. Lovecraft`s The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories is edited with an introduction and notes by S.T. Joshi in Penguin Modern Classics. Credited with inventing the modern horror tradition, H.P. Lovecraft remade the genre in the early twentieth century. Discarding ghosts and witches, and instead envisaging mankind at the mercy of a chaotic and malevolent universe, Lovecraft`s unique works would prove to be a huge influence on modern horror writers such as Stephen King. This selection of short stories ranges from early tales of nightmares and insanity such as `The Outsider` and `The Rats in the Walls` through the grotesquely comic `Herbert West - Reanimator` and `The Hound`, to the extraterrestrial terror of
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Collecting uniquely uncanny tales from the master of American horror, H.P. Lovecraft`s The Call of Cthulhu & Other Weird Stories is edited with an introduction & notes by S.T. Joshi in Penguin Modern Classics. Credited with inventing the modern horror tradition, H.P. Lovecraft remade the genre in the early twentieth century. Discarding ghosts & witches, & instead envisaging mankind at the mercy of a chaotic & malevolent universe, Lovecraft`s unique works would prove to be a huge influence on modern horror writers such as Stephen King. This selection of short stories ranges from early tales of nightmares & insanity such as ` The Outsider` & ` The Rats in the Walls` through the grotesquely comic ` Herbert West
- Reanimator` & ` The Hound`, to the extraterrestrial terror of ` The Call of Cthulhu`, which fuses traditional supernaturalism with science fiction. Including the definitive corrected texts, this collection reveals the development of Lovecraft`s mesmerising narrative style & establishes him as a hugely influential
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- American writer. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), born in Providence, Rhode Island was self-educated & lived in his birthplace all his life, working as a freelance writer, journalist, & ghostwriter. Using many pen names, he contributed his supernatural/horror & 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 the pulp magazine Weird Tales starting in 1923. If you enjoyed The Call of Cthulhu, you might also like Arthur Machen`s The White People & Other Weird Stories, available in Penguin Classics. ` The twentieth century horror story`s dark & baroque prince` Stephen King

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