The classic horror stories
By: H.P. Lovecraft ; edited by Roger Luckhurst
Contributors: Luckhurst, Roger, editor
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
ISBN-13: 9780199639571
Subjects: American Horror tales
Description: H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a reclusive scribbler of horror stories for the American pulp magazines that specialized in Gothic and science fiction in the interwar years. He often published in Weird Tales and has since become the key figure in the slippery genre of "weird fiction." Lovecraft developed an extraordinary vision of feeble men driven to the edge of sanity by glimpses of malign beings that have survived from human prehistory or by malevolent extra-terrestrial visitations. The ornate language of his stories builds towards grotesque moments of revelation, quite unlike any other writer.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The horror at Red Hook --; title: The call of Cthulhu --; title: The colour out of space --; title: The Dunwich horror --; title: The whisperer in darkness --; title: At the mountains of madness --; title: The dreams in the witch-house --; title: The shadow over Innsmouth --; title: The shadow out of time.