The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories [SEP] series
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories is Penguin Classics' first omnibus edition of works by seminal 20th-century American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was released in October 1999 and is still in print. The volume is named for the Lovecraft short story, "The Call of Cthulhu".
This edition, the first new paperback publication of Lovecraft's works since the Del-Rey editions, contains a new introduction and explanatory notes on individual stories by noted Lovecraft scholar
Conover of his teenage correspondence with Lovecraft; Joshi's "A Subtler Magick: The Writings and Philosophy of H. P. Lovecraft".
- Lovecraft's prose fiction being published as corrected texts were released by Arkham House in the 1980s, and many other collections of his stories have appeared, including Ballantine Books editions and three Del Rey editions. The three collections published by Penguin, "The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories", "The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories", and "The Dreams in