The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories – Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Miękka oprawa)

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', which fuses traditional supernaturalism with science fiction. Including the definitive corrected texts, this collection reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerising narrative style and establishes him as a hugely influential – and visionary – American writer. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), born in Providence, Rhode Island 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 the pulp magazine Weird Tales starting in 1923. If you enjoyed The Call of Cthulhu, you might also like Arthur Machen