The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories.

Credited with inventing the modern horror tradition, H.P. Lovecraft almost single-handedly remade the genre in the early twentieth century. More than horror, his literature can be defined as weird, creating what came to be known as cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible and that the universe we live in is alien to us, in spite of all our efforts to understand it and control it. Lovecraft did away with a tradition of ghosts and witches, replacing them with fragile human characters at the mercy of chaotic and violent universal forces.

The stories included in this volume are extracted from several of Lovecraft's books: The Dunwich Horror and Others, At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels, Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, and Miscellaneous Writings.

Technical description:
Title: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories.
Author: H.P. Lovecraft.
Publisher: Penguin Books.
Edition: London (UK), 1999.
Pages: 420, including introduction and explanatory notes.
ISBN: 0-14-118706-9