The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories

H. P. Lovecraft, Guillermo del Toro, S T Joshi

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Penguin Classics
23 October 2013

Horror & ghost stories; Short Stories Horror

Series: Penguin Classic Horror

Part of a six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy award-winning director Guillermo del Toro.

A stunningly creepy deluxe hardcover edition with spot gloss, black sprayed edges, black-stained pages, and black endpapers.

Part of a six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del Toro.

Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters of the genre. Included here are some of del Toro's favorites, from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Ray Russell's short story ""Sardonicus,"" considered by Stephen King to be ""perhaps the finest example of the modern Gothic ever written,"" to Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and stories by Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, Ted Klein, and Robert E. Howard. Featuring original cover art by Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, these stunningly creepy deluxe hardcovers will be perfect additions to the shelves of horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and paranormal aficionados everywhere.

The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories

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. The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories 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 book 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.

By: H. P. Lovecraft
Introduction by: S T Joshi
Edited by: Guillermo del Toro
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 220mm, Width: 146mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 600g
ISBN: 9780143122326
ISBN 10: 0143122320
Series: Penguin Classic Horror
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 23 October 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was born in Providence, Rhode Island, where he spent most of his life. His relatively small body of work - three novels and sixty short stories - has nevertheless exercised an incalculable influence on horror and supernatural fiction.

Reviews for The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories

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