The call of Cthulhu and other weird stories
By: H.P. Lovecraft ; edited with an introduction and notes by S.T. Joshi.
Contributors: Joshi, S. T., 1958-
Series: Penguin twentieth-century classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
Subjects: Horror tales, American.; Cthulhu (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Phillips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and envisioning instead mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. Love craft's preeminent interpreter S.T. Joshi presents a selection of the master's fiction, from the early tales of nightmares and madness such as "The Outsider" and "Rats in the Walls," through the grotesquely comic "Herbert West-Reanimator" and "The Hound," to the overpowering cosmic terror of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" and "The Call of Cthulhu." The first paperback edition to include the definitive corrected texts, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonical-and visionary-American writer.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxi-xxiv).