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

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).