{"product_id":"call-of-cthulhu-other-weird-stories-p-b","title":"H. P. Lovecraft: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories [2002] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eCollecting uniquely uncanny tales from the master of American horror, H.P. Lovecraft's \u003ci\u003eThe Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories \u003c\/i\u003eis edited with an introduction and notes by S.T. Joshi in Penguin Modern Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCredited with inventing the modern horror tradition, H.P. Lovecraft remade the genre in the early twentieth century. Discarding ghosts and witches, and instead envisaging mankind at the mercy of a chaotic and malevolent universe, Lovecraft's unique works would prove to be a huge influence on modern horror writers such as Stephen King. This selection of short stories ranges from early tales of nightmares and insanity such as 'The Outsider' and 'The Rats in the Walls' through the grotesquely comic 'Herbert West - Reanimator' and 'The Hound', to the extraterrestrial terror of 'The Call of Cthulhu', which fuses traditional supernaturalism with science fiction. Including the definitive corrected texts, this collection reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerising narrative style and establishes him as a hugely influential - and visionary - American writer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHoward Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), born in Providence, Rhode Island was self-educated and lived in his birthplace all his life, working as a freelance writer, journalist, and ghostwriter. Using many pen names, he contributed his supernatural\/horror and science fiction\/fantasy stories to various pulp magazines but his reputation as a writer rests mainly on the 60 or so stories he published in the pulp magazine \u003ci\u003eWeird Tales\u003c\/i\u003e starting in 1923. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you enjoyed \u003ci\u003eThe Call of Cthulhu\u003c\/i\u003e, you might also like Arthur Machen's \u003ci\u003eThe White People and Other Weird Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, available in Penguin Classics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The twentieth century horror story's dark and baroque prince'\u003cbr\u003eStephen King\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lovecraft, H P \u0026 Joshi, S. T.","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":42421997600953,"sku":"9780141187068","price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":47185697243475,"sku":"XG80141187068","price":2.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":49042238112083,"sku":"XV80141187068","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/lovecraft-h-p-joshi-s-t-h-p-lovecraft-the-call-of-cthulhu-and-other-weird-stories-2002-paperback-57488585523539.jpg?v=1727300649","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/call-of-cthulhu-other-weird-stories-p-b","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}