The Call of Cthulhu and other weird stories (Penguin Orange Collection) -

S.T. Joshi

Penguin Classics

2016

360 páginas

12h 0m

ISBN-13: 9780143129455

Frequently imitaded and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the genre of horror in the twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisining mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. In this volume, Lovecraft's preeminent interpreter S. T. Joshi presents a selection of the master's fiction, from early tales of nightmares and madness such as "The Outsider" and "The Rats in the Walls" to the overpowering cosmic terror of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" and "The Call of Cthulhu". More than just a collection of terrifying tales, this definitive edition reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonical - and visionary - American writer.,