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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories: (Penguin Orange Collection)

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By (author): H. P. Lovecraft

Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback

Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition
 
For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Penguins iconic book design with twelve influential American literary classics representing the breadth and diversity of the Penguin Classics library. These collectible editions are dressed in the iconic orange and white tri-band cover design, first created in 1935, while french flaps, high-quality paper, and striking cover illustrations provide the cutting-edge design treatment that is the signature of Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions today.

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
 
Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Phillips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. This definitive collection reveals the development of Lovecrafts mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonicaland visionaryAmerican writer. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 323g
  • Dimensions: 131 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 18 Oct 2016
  • Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780143129455

About H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft (18901937) was born in Providence Rhode Island where he lived most of his life. He wrote many essays and poems early in his career but gradually focused on the writing of horror stories after the advent in 1923 of the pulp magazine Weird Tales to which he contributed most of his fiction. His relatively small corpus of fictionthree short novels and about sixty short storieshas nevertheless exercised a wide influence on subsequent work in the field and he is regarded as the leading twentieth-century American author of supernatural fiction.   S. T. Joshi is a freelance writer and editor. He has prepared comprehensive editions of Lovecrafts collected fiction essays and poetry. He is also the author of The Weird Tale (1990) The Modern Weird Tale (2001) and Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction (2012). His award-winning biography H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996) was later expanded as I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft (2010). He has also prepared Penguin Classics editions of the work of Arthur Machen Lord Dunsany Algernon Blackwood M. R. James and Clark Ashton Smith as well as the anthology American Supernatural Tales (2007).

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