By H.P. Lovecraft
Edited with an Introduction and Notes
by S.T. Joshi

Front End Paper Text

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. Lovecraft’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.” This definitive edition reveals the development of Lovecraft’s mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonical—and visionary—American writer.

“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

Contents

• Introduction, by S.T. Joshi
• Suggestions for Further Reading
• A Note on the Text


• Dagon
• The Statement of Randolph Carter
• Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
• Celephaïs
• Nyarlathotep
• The Picture in the House
• The Outsider
• Herbert West—Reanimator
• The Hound
• The Rats in the Walls
• The Festival
• He
• Cool Air
• The Call of Cthulhu
• The Colour Out of Space
• The Whisperer in Darkness
• The Shadow Over Innsmouth
• The Haunter of the Dark


• Explanatory Notes

Bibliographic Information

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories. By H.P. Lovecraft, Edited with an Introduction and Notes by S.T. Joshi. New York, NY: Penguin USA; 2011; ISBN 978-0-14-310648-7; Paperback.

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