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    The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

    (Penguin Orange Collection)

    Part of Penguin Orange Collection

    Author H. P. Lovecraft
    Edited by S. T. Joshi
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Classics
    On sale Oct 18, 2016 | 368 Pages | 9780143129455
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    Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback

    Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition
     
    For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Penguin’s iconic book design with twelve influential American literary classics representing the breadth and diversity of the Penguin Classics library. These collectible editions are dressed in the iconic orange and white tri-band cover design, first created in 1935, while french flaps, high-quality paper, and striking cover illustrations provide the cutting-edge design treatment that is the signature of Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions today.

    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.
    The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird StoriesIntroduction
    Suggestions for Further Reading
    A Note on the Text

    Dagon
    The Statement of Randolph Carter
    Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
    Celephais
    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

    H. P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island, where he lived most of his life. Frequent illnesses in his youth disrupted his schooling, but Lovecraft gained a wide knowledge of many subjects through independent reading and study. He wrote many essays and poems early in his career, but gradually focused on the writing of horror stories, after the advent in 1923 of the pulp magazine Weird Tales, to which he contributed most of his fiction. His relatively small corpus of fiction—three short novels and about sixty short stories—has nevertheless exercised a wide influence on subsequent work in the field, and he is regarded as the leading twentieth-century American author of supernatural fiction. H. P. Lovecraft died in Providence in 1937. View titles by H. P. Lovecraft

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    Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback

    Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition
     
    For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Penguin’s iconic book design with twelve influential American literary classics representing the breadth and diversity of the Penguin Classics library. These collectible editions are dressed in the iconic orange and white tri-band cover design, first created in 1935, while french flaps, high-quality paper, and striking cover illustrations provide the cutting-edge design treatment that is the signature of Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions today.

    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.

    Table of Contents

    The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird StoriesIntroduction
    Suggestions for Further Reading
    A Note on the Text

    Dagon
    The Statement of Randolph Carter
    Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
    Celephais
    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

    Author

    H. P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island, where he lived most of his life. Frequent illnesses in his youth disrupted his schooling, but Lovecraft gained a wide knowledge of many subjects through independent reading and study. He wrote many essays and poems early in his career, but gradually focused on the writing of horror stories, after the advent in 1923 of the pulp magazine Weird Tales, to which he contributed most of his fiction. His relatively small corpus of fiction—three short novels and about sixty short stories—has nevertheless exercised a wide influence on subsequent work in the field, and he is regarded as the leading twentieth-century American author of supernatural fiction. H. P. Lovecraft died in Providence in 1937. View titles by H. P. Lovecraft

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