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Followed by. The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories. The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories is Penguin Classics' first omnibus edition of works by seminal 20th-century American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was released in October 1999 and is still in print. The volume is named for the Lovecraft short story, "The Call of Cthulhu".
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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 ficti...
Introduction, by S.T. JoshiSuggestions for Further ReadingA Note on the TextThe 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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The Call of Cthulhu and other Weird Stories is an anthology of works by American author Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Published by Penguin Classics in 1999, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories was edited by S. T. Joshi, and contains an introduction and story notes of his. The stories contained within are the corrected versions previously published by Arkham House, which were also edited ...
The Call of Cthulhu. Title page of "The Call of Cthulhu" as it appeared in Weird Tales, February 1928. Illustration by Hugh Doak Rankin. [ 1] " The Call of Cthulhu " is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1928.
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H. P. Lovecraft died in Providence in 1937. S. T. Joshi is a freelance writer and editor. He has edited Penguin Classics editions of H. P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (1999), and The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (2001), as well as Algernon Blackwood’s Ancient Sorceries and Other Strange Stories ...
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A young H. P. Lovecraft. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 - March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy and horror fiction, noted for giving horror stories a science fiction framework. Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, but his works have become quite important and influential among writers and fans of horror ...
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