The Classic Horror Stories

by H.P. Lovecraft and Roger Luckhurst

Book Overview

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a reclusive scribbler of horror stories for the American pulp magazines that specialized in Gothic and science fiction in the interwar years. He often published in Weird Tales and has since become the key figure in the slippery genre of "weird fiction." Lovecraft developed an extraordinary vision of feeble men driven to the edge of sanity by glimpses of malign beings that have survived from human prehistory or by malevolent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199639574
• ISBN13: 9780199639571
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.6" x 8.6"