By H.P. Lovecraft
Edited with an Introduction and
Notes
by S.T. Joshi
Back Cover Text
Twelve chilling tales from the unrivaled master of
the fantastic and the
macabre
Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s unique contribution to American literature was a melding of
traditional supernaturalism (derived chiefly from Edgar Allan Poe) with the emerging genre of
science fiction 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 the work, along with Lovecraft critic and biographer S.T. Joshi’s illuminating Introduction
and his notes to each story.
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Bibliographic Information
The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories. By H.P. Lovecraft, Edited with an
Introduction and Notes by S.T. Joshi. New York, NY: Penguin USA; 2001; ISBN 0-14-218003-3;
Paperback.
Purchasing This Book
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