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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: S T Joshi (Editore), S T Joshi (Editore), T Joshi (Editore), S. T. Joshi (Editore), S T Joshi (Introduzione)
• Autori: S T Joshi, H. P. Lovecraft
• Editore: Penguin Books Uk
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 30.07.2002
• Categoria: Narrativa > Science Fiction, Fantasy
• EAN: 9780141187068
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118706-8
• Numero di pagine: 448
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 12.8 x 19.8 x 2 cm
• Serie: Penguin Classics; Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Categorie: 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