The Call of Cthuluh and Other Weird Stories

Resumen del libro

Credited with inventing the modern horror tradition, H. P. Lovecraft remade the genre in the early twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisaging mankind at the mercy of a chaotic and malevolent universe.

This selection of stories ranges from early tales of nightmares and insanity such as The Outsider' and Rats in the Walls', through the grotesquely comic Herbert West Reanimator' and The Hound', to the extra-terrestrial terror of The Call of Cthulhu', which fuses traditional supernaturalism with science fiction. Including the definitive corrected texts, this collection reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a hugely influential - and visionary - American writer.

Biografía del autor

H.P. Lovecraft (Estados Unidos, 1890 1937) es uno de los grandes pioneros de la ciencia ficción y de terror de la historia. Difundió sus relatos a través de revistas y sólo después de su muerte aparecieron en forma de volúmenes. Entre sus obras destacan: El modelo de Pickman, La casa encantada o En las montañas de la locura.