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Written in 1928, H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu defined the ancient gods as dark creatures who came from the stars and ruled the world before mankind. When these ancient ones awaken, humanity is plagued by a nightmare of terrors etched upon an epic backdrop. The author's... Read Full Overview

H.P. Lovecraft's most famous story, featuring Cthulhu, the extraterrestrial entity.

More than 10 stories of Lovecraft's iconic Cthulhu mythos are collected in this gorgeous clothbound collection. From the classic 'The Call of Cthulhu' to the eerie 'The Shunned House' these stories exemplify Lovecraft's extravagant imagination. Terrifying rituals, grotesque comedies... Read Full Overview

This edition contains the following famous horror fiction stories of H.P. Lovecraft: The Call of Cthulhu, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, The Statement of Randolph Carter, The Doom That Came to Sarnath

"I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." -Stephen King Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920's,... Read Full Overview

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each... Read Full Overview

The Call of Cthulhu, the tale of a horrifying underwater monster coming to life and threatening mankind, is H. P. Lovecraft's most famous and most widely popular tale, spawning an entire mythology, with the power to strike terror into the hearts of even the Great Old... Read Full Overview

Collecting uniquely uncanny tales from the master of American horror, H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories is edited with an introduction and notes by S.T. Joshi in Penguin Modern Classics.