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    The Dreams in the Witch House

    And Other Weird Stories

    Author H. P. Lovecraft
    Introduction by S. T. Joshi
    Edited by S. T. Joshi
    Notes by S. T. Joshi
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    Penguin Adult HC/TR | Penguin Classics
    On sale Sep 28, 2004 | 480 Pages | 9781440650772
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    "The dreams were wholly beyond the pale of sanity . . . "

    Plagued by insane nightmare visions, Walter Gilman seeks help in Miskatonic University's infamous library of forbidden books, where, in the pages of Abdul Alhazred's dreaded Necronomicon, he finds terrible hints that seem to connect his own studies in advanced mathematics with the fantastic legends of elder magic. The Dreams in the Witch House, gathered together here with more than twenty other tales of terror, exemplifies H. P. Lovecraft's primacy among twentieth-century American horror writers.

    This volume is a companion to the other two Penguin Classics edition of Lovecraft's work: The Call of the Cthulhu and The Thing on the Doorstep. This original collection presents the definitive texts of the work, including a newly restored text of "The Shadow out of time" along with S. T. Joshi's invaluable introduction and notes.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
    The Dreams in the Witch House And Other Weird StoriesIntroduction by S.T. Joshi
    Suggestions for Further Reading
    A Note on the Texts

    Polaris
    The Doom That Came to Sarnath
    The Terrible Old Man
    The Tree
    The Cats of Ulthar
    From Beyond
    The Nameless City
    The Moon-Bog
    The Other Gods
    Hypnos
    The Lurking Fear
    The Unnamable
    The Shunned house
    The Horror at Red Hook
    In the Vault
    The Strange High House in the Mist
    The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
    The Silver Key
    Through the Gates of the Silver Key
    THe Dreams in the Witch House
    The Shadow out of Time

    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
    H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth centuryÆs greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale. (Stephen King)

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    "The dreams were wholly beyond the pale of sanity . . . "

    Plagued by insane nightmare visions, Walter Gilman seeks help in Miskatonic University's infamous library of forbidden books, where, in the pages of Abdul Alhazred's dreaded Necronomicon, he finds terrible hints that seem to connect his own studies in advanced mathematics with the fantastic legends of elder magic. The Dreams in the Witch House, gathered together here with more than twenty other tales of terror, exemplifies H. P. Lovecraft's primacy among twentieth-century American horror writers.

    This volume is a companion to the other two Penguin Classics edition of Lovecraft's work: The Call of the Cthulhu and The Thing on the Doorstep. This original collection presents the definitive texts of the work, including a newly restored text of "The Shadow out of time" along with S. T. Joshi's invaluable introduction and notes.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    Table of Contents

    The Dreams in the Witch House And Other Weird StoriesIntroduction by S.T. Joshi
    Suggestions for Further Reading
    A Note on the Texts

    Polaris
    The Doom That Came to Sarnath
    The Terrible Old Man
    The Tree
    The Cats of Ulthar
    From Beyond
    The Nameless City
    The Moon-Bog
    The Other Gods
    Hypnos
    The Lurking Fear
    The Unnamable
    The Shunned house
    The Horror at Red Hook
    In the Vault
    The Strange High House in the Mist
    The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
    The Silver Key
    Through the Gates of the Silver Key
    THe Dreams in the Witch House
    The Shadow out of Time

    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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    H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth centuryÆs greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale. (Stephen King)

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