Categories: Anthologies (non-poetry) Classic Books & Novels Horror Horror Classic Horror Classic Horror Science Fiction Science Fiction Classic Science Fiction Classic Science Fiction Fantasy Fantasy Books Short Story Books The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories 4.18 (42,702 ratings by Goodreads) Paperback Penguin Modern Classics English By (author) H. P. Lovecraft , Introduction by S T Joshi Collecting uniquely uncanny tales from the master of American horror, H.P. Lovecrafts The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories is edited with an introduction and notes by S.T. Joshi in Penguin Modern Classics. Credited with inventing the modern horror tradition, H.P. Lovecraft remade the genre in the early twentieth century. Discarding ghosts and witches, and instead envisaging mankind at the mercy of a chaotic and malevolent universe, Lovecrafts unique works would prove to be a huge influence on modern horror writers such as Stephen King. This selection of short stories ranges from early tales of nightmares and insanity such as The Outsider and The Rats in the Walls through the grotesquely comic Herbert West - Reanimator and The Hound, to the extraterrestrial terror of The Call of Cthulhu, which fuses traditional supernaturalism with science fiction. Including the definitive corrected texts, this collection reveals the development of Lovecrafts mesmerising narrative style and establishes him as a hugely influential - and visionary - American writer. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), born in Providence, Rhode Island 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 the pulp magazine Weird Tales starting in 1923. If you enjoyed The Call of Cthulhu, you might also like Arthur Machens The White People and Other Weird Stories, available in Penguin Classics. The twentieth century horror storys dark and baroque prince Stephen King Product details Format Paperback | 448 pages Dimensions 129 x 198 x 19mm | 308g Publication date 12 Sep 2011 Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Imprint Penguin Classics Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom Language English 10 0141187069 13 9780141187068 Bestsellers rank 13,940