The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and envisioning instead mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. Lovecraft's preeminent interpreter S. T. Joshi presents a selection of the master's fiction, from the early tales of nightmares and madness such as "The Outsider" and "Rats in the Walls," through the grotesquely comic "Hebert West–Reanimator" and "The Hound," to the overpowering cosmic terror "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" and "The Call of Cthulhu." This definitive edition reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonical–and visionary–American writer.