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This edition contains the following famous horror fiction stories of H.P. Lovecraft: The Call of Cthulhu, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, The Statement of Randolph Carter, The Doom That Came to Sarnath

More than 10 stories of Lovecraft's iconic Cthulhu mythos are collected in this gorgeous clothbound collection. From the classic 'The Call of Cthulhu' to the eerie 'The Shunned House' these stories exemplify Lovecraft's extravagant imagination. Terrifying rituals, grotesque comedies... Read Full Overview

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its... Read Full Overview

The Call of Cthulhu is H. P. Lovecraft's most well-known and celebrated work of supernatural horror fiction. The short story is a fantastic fusion of science fiction and thrilling tension.

Francis Thurston is sorting through the notes of his late grand-uncle,... Read Full Overview

"I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." -Stephen King Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Philips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920's,... Read Full Overview

The Call of Cthulhu, the tale of a horrifying underwater monster coming to life and threatening mankind, is H. P. Lovecraft's most famous and most widely popular tale, spawning an entire mythology, with the power to strike terror into the hearts of even the Great Old... Read Full Overview

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each... Read Full Overview

Se describe -precisamente en el relato de La llamada de Cthulhu- como una enorme criatura comparable a una monta a desplaz ndose (mide unos 10 kil metros de altura), con cabeza de pulpo o calamar, y abotargado cuerpo de drag n, con sus respectivas alas rudimentarias. Tiene la... Read Full Overview

"The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in Weird Tales, February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance... Read Full Overview

Collecting uniquely uncanny tales from the master of American horror, H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories is edited with an introduction and notes by S.T. Joshi in Penguin Modern Classics.

This is one of the best stories by Lovecraft. Cthulhu is an extraterrestrial entity that makes a major appearance. The story is presented as a manuscript "found among the papers of the late Francis Wayland Thurston, of New York".