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The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Classics) Paper back - 2001
by H. P. Lovecraft, S. T. Joshi
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This new edition brings together a dozen chilling tales from the unrivaled master of the fantastic and the macabre.
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- Title The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Classics)
- Author H. P. Lovecraft, S. T. Joshi
- Binding Paper Back
- Edition Later Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Classics, New York
- Date October 2001
- Bookseller's Inventory # 153244
- ISBN 9780142180037 / 0142180033
- Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 7.74 x 5.06 x 0.8 in (19.66 x 12.85 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Horror tales, American
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001045158
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
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 new Penguin Twentieth-Century 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 favorites) through 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.
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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Citations
- Library Journal, 11/15/2001, Page 102