📖 The Classic Horror Stories

A new selection of Lovecraft's core 'classic' fictions, bringing together in one volume his most representative and influential tales. The first collection to provide a full contextual introduction which explores the meaning of 'weird fiction' and offers a balanced assessment of the place of the author in relation to the Gothic tradition and American fiction in the 1920s and 1930s. Includes an extract from Lovecraft's important critical essay, 'Supernatural Horror in Literature'. Includes a chronology, bibliography, and notes to provide additional contextual interest. Lovecraft's influence extends from Jorge Luis Borges to Stephen King, the films of the Alien series and the fantasy cinema of Guillermo del Toro.