American Supernatural Tales

S. T. Joshi, Guillermo del Toro, S T Joshi

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Penguin Classics
23 October 2013

Horror & ghost stories

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.

American Supernatural Tales is the ultimate collection of weird and frightening American short fiction. As Stephen King will attest, the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. The book celebrates the richness of this tradition with chilling contributions from some of the nation's brightest literary lights, including Poe himself, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and-of course-Stephen King. This volumes also includes ""The Yellow Sign,"" the most horrific story from The King in Yellow, the classic horror collection by Robert W. Chambers featured on HBO's hitTV series True Detective.

By turns phantasmagoric, spectral, and demonic, this is a frighteningly good collection of stories.

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.

Introduction by: S T Joshi
Edited by: S. T. Joshi, Guillermo del Toro
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 217mm, Width: 150mm, Spine: 40mm
Weight: 623g
ISBN: 9780143122371
ISBN 10: 0143122371
Series: Penguin Classic Horror
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 23 October 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

GUILLERMO DEL TORO is a Mexican director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, and designer. He both cofounded the Guadalajara International Film Festival and formed his own production company-the Tequila Gang. However, he is most recognized for his Academy Award-winning film,Pan's Labyrinth, and the Hellboy film franchise. He has received Nebula and Hugo awards, was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award, and is an avid collector and student of arcane memorabilia and weird fiction. S. T. JOSHI is a freelance writer and editor. He has edited Penguin Classics editions of H. P. Lovecraft'sThe Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, andThe Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories, as well as Algernon Blackwood'sAncient Sorceries and Other Strange Stories. Among his critical and biographical studies areThe Weird Tale,Lord Dunsany- Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination, andH. P. Lovecraft- A Life, and The Modern Weird Tale. He has also edited works by Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, and H. L. Mencken, and is compiling a three-volumeEncyclopedia of Supernatural Literature.

Reviews for American Supernatural Tales

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