Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories

AvH. P. Lovecraft,S. T. Joshi

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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Howard Phillips Lovecraft's unique contribution to American literature was a melding of traditional supernaturalism (derived chiefly from Edgar Allan Poe) with the genre of science fiction that emerged in the early 1920s. This Penguin Classics edition brings together a dozen of the master's tales - from his early short stories 'Under the Pyramids' (originally ghostwritten for Harry Houdini) and 'The Music of Erich Zann' (which Lovecraft ranked second among his own favourites) through to his more fully developed works, 'The Dunwich Horror', 'The Case of Charles Dexter Ward', and 'At the Mountains of Madness'.The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories presents the definitive corrected texts of these works, along with Lovecraft critic and biographer S. T. Joshi's illuminating introduction and notes to each story.

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Utgivningsdatum:2001-10-25
Mått:130 x 200 x 20 mm
Vikt:310 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Antal sidor:464
Förlag:Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN:9780142180037

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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.

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Praise for Penguin Horror Classics:“The new Penguin Horror editions, selected by Guillermo del Toro, feature some of the best art-direction (by Paul Buckley) I've seen in a cover in quite some time.” – Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing"Each cover does a pretty spectacular job of evoking the mood of the title in bold, screenprint-style iconography." – Dan Solomon, Fast Company

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The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird StoriesIntroduction by S. T. JoshiSuggestions for Further ReadingA Note on the TextThe TombBeyond the Wall of SleepThe White ShipThe TempleThe Quest of IranonThe Music of Erich ZannUnder the PyramidsPickman's ModelThe Case of Charles Dexter WardThe Dunwich HorrorAt the Mountains of MadnessThe Thing on the DoorstepExplanatory Notes