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A definitive collection of stories from the unrivaled master of twentieth-century horror 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 1920s discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. S. T. Joshi Lovecraft s preeminent interpreter presents a selection of the master s fiction from the early tales of nightmares and madness such as The Outsider to the overpowering cosmic terror of The Call of Cthulhu. More than just a collection of terrifying tales this volume reveals the development of Lovecraft s mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonical- and visionary-American writer. For more than seventy years Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature