The Call of Cthulhu
H. P. Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, but his reputation has grown over the decades, and he is now regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of all time, the Edgar Allan Poe of the 20th century. "[Lovecraft has exerted] an incalculable influence on succeeding generations of writers of horror fiction" --Joyce Carol Oates "[Lovecraft was] the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." --Stephen King