Bibliograph

The call of Cthulhu and other weird stories, H.P. Lovecraft ; edited with an introduction and notes by S.T. Joshi

Type

Label

The call of Cthulhu and other weird stories, H.P. Lovecraft ; edited with an introduction and notes by S.T. Joshi

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxi-xxiv)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The call of Cthulhu and other weird stories

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

40723781

Responsibility statement

H.P. Lovecraft ; edited with an introduction and notes by S.T. Joshi

Series statement

Penguin twentieth-century classics

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Suggestions for further reading -- Note on the text -- Dagon -- Statement of Randolph Carter -- Facts concerning the late Arthur Jermyn and his family -- Celephaïs -- Nyarlathotep -- Picture in the house -- Outsider -- Herbert West--Reanimator -- Hound -- Rats in the walls -- Festival -- He -- Cool air -- Call of Cthulhu -- Colour out of space -- Whisperer in darkness -- Shadow over Innsmouth -- Haunter of the dark -- Explanatory notes

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