The Call Of Cthulhu

Author: H. P. Lovecraft

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  • : 9780141187068
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : Penguin Classics
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  • : 0.308
  • : 01 May 2002
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 19mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 24.95
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  • : 01 January 2018
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Description

H P Lovecraft is credited with reinventing the horror genre in the twentieth century. In this volume, Lovecraft's preeminent interpreter, S T Joshi, presents a selection of the master's fiction. These stories reveal the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establish him as a canonical - and visionary - American writer.

Author description

Born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1890, Lovecraft 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 Weird Tales starting in 1923. He died in 1937.