Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." - Stephen King.įrequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. Scholars should note that the texts transcribed on Wikisource may contain errors, or may represent "uncorrected" versions.A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror.
Many of the texts are the same as those from the earlier Arkham House hardcover editions, with the exception of At the Mountains of Madness, which has recently been released in a definitive edition by the Modern Library, with an introduction by China Miéville and also including Lovecraft's essay on the history and evolution of weird fiction, Supernatural Horror in Literature. Again, it collects a number of Lovecraft's most popular stories in their latest "definitive" editions as edited by S.
This edition is the second in Penguin Classics' series of paperback collections. It was released in October 2001 and is still in print. The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories is Penguin Classics' second omnibus edition of works by 20th-century American author H. The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
0 kommentar(er)
