The Call of Cthulhu & Other Stories

This handy collectable classic joins the company of Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, and Edgar Allan Poe. H.P. Lovecraft was the inventor of cosmic horror, of weird fiction, and the Cthulhu mythology. His stories, incubated by a lonely and febrile childhood, found purchase in the fertile earth of pulp fiction where he inspired many other writers, from Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, to Clark Ashton Smith, many of whom also collaborated on several short stories, some of which are included here in this special collectable edition.

Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers, and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader.

Author: H.P. Lovecraft is a modern master of horror and gothic fiction, influencing a generation of writers and creating dark worlds that still haunt speculative fiction today. Lovecraft's father died in a mental institution when Lovecraft was only two years of age, and he spent very little time at school due to illnesses. In his early years, he corresponded with amateur writers and editors, writing essays, poetry, and reviews for amateur magazines. In the 1920s, he began to sell to the popular pulp magazines of the day, particularly Weird Tales and Astonishing Tales.

This is a hardback deluxe edition, foiled and embossed, with gilded edges.