The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories - (Penguin Orange Collection)

"Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Phillips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. This definitive collection reveals the development of Lovecraft''s mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonical--and visionary--American writer"--