The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

Informationen zum Autor H.P. Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1890. He was self-educated and lived in his birthplace all his life, working 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. Klappentext Born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1890, Lovecraft 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 Weird Tales starting in 1923. He died in 1937. Zusammenfassung H P Lovecraft is credited with reinventing the horror genre in the twentieth century. This work contains some of his stories.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: S T Joshi, H. P. Lovecraft
• Mitarbeit: S T Joshi (Herausgeber), S. T. Joshi (Herausgeber), T Joshi (Herausgeber), S T Joshi (Herausgeber), S T Joshi (Einführung)
• Verlag: Penguin Books Uk
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.07.2002
• EAN: 9780141187068
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118706-8
• Seiten: 448
• Abmessung: 128 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Serien: Penguin Classics; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Themen: Belletristik > Science Fiction, Fantasy; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, FICTION / Horror, Anthologies: general, Classic horror & ghost stories, Anthologies (non-poetry), Classic horror and ghost stories