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The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)

The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)

by H. P. Lovecraft (Author), S T Joshi (Editor)

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    Paperback 2002

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Synopsis

This book contains more weirdly creepy and unnerving tales to unsettle any reader. Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 464
 Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 25 Jul 2002
ISBN 10: 0141187077
ISBN 13: 9780141187075

Author Bio
Born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1890, Lovecraft was self-educated and lived in his birthpplace all his life, working as a freelance writer, journalist, and ghostwriter. Using many pen names, he contributed his supernatural/horror and science fiction/fantasy stories to various pulp magazines, but his reputation as a writer rests mainly on the 60 or so stories he published in Weird Tales starting in 1923. He died in 1937.