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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales

Summary


An introduction to the weird and unsettling world of H.P. Lovecraft, master and pioneer of horror.

Between these pages you will find things that lurk, things that scurry in the walls, things that move unseen, things that have learnt to walk that ought to crawl, unfathomable blackness, unconquerable evil, inhuman impulses, abnormal bodies, ancient rites, nameless lands best left undiscovered, thoughts best left unspoken, doors best left closed, names best forgotten.

You have been warned.

Reviews

  • The twentieth century horror story's dark and baroque prince
    Stephen King

About the author

H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1890. Self-educated, he worked as a freelance writer, journalist and ghostwriter. His best work - including some sixty or so short stories - was published from 1923 onwards in the pulp magazine Weird Tales. He died in 1937, in poverty and virtually unknown; today he is recognized as one of the great masters of supernatural fiction.
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