The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
  • Published: 17 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9780143129455
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $40.00

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

(Penguin Orange Collection)

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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
 
Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Phillips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. This definitive collection reveals the development of Lovecraft’s mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonical—and visionary—American writer.
  • Published: 17 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9780143129455
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $40.00
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About the author

H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island on August 20, 1890. His father, a traveling salesman, suffered a nervous breakdown three years later and was hospitalised until his death in 1898, from a form of syphilis. Lovecraft's family experienced financial difficulties after the death of his grandfather in 1904, and the shame of this deeply affected the young writer. His relationship with his mother was severely troubled, and she was also hospitalised after a nervous breakdown in 1919. After a brief marriage and a period living in Brooklyn where he first began publishing his stories in the magazine Weird Tales, Lovecraft returned to Providence where he continued to write stories, and supported himself through ghost-writing. He continued to be plagued by money problems, and died in relative poverty on March 15, 1937. His numerous stories, novellas and poem were never collected and properly published during his lifetime.

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At the Mountains of Madness
The Colour Out of Space
H. P. Lovecraft: Tales (LOA #155)
The Dreams in the Witch House
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales
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Praise for The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

"I think it is beyond doubt that H.P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." -Stephen King

"H.P. Lovecraft built the stage on which most of the last century's horror fiction was performed. As doomed as any of his protagonists, he put a worldview into words that has spread to infect the world. You need to read him--he's where the darkness starts." -Neil Gaiman