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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories is a 1999 Penguin Classics anthology of short fiction by H. P. Lovecraft, edited with an introduction and notes by Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi. It includes the title story, first published in Weird Tales in 1928, alongside works such as "The Rats in the...
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Canonical Penguin anthology collecting Lovecraft's central weird fiction, highly influential and critically established despite well-known authorial flaws.
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The Shadow over Innsmouth is a horror novella by H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1931 and first published as a book in 1936. Its narrator visits the isolated Massachusetts seaport of Innsmouth, investigates its decaying buildings and secretive population, and discovers a relationship between the town's...
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Foundational Lovecraft novella with immense genre influence and iconic setting, despite dated prose and racist undercurrents affecting modern reception.
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