The Call of Cthulhu and Other Tales of Cosmic Terror

£19.99

H.P. Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre for the 20th century, discarding witches and ghosts and envisaging mankind as an outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. ‘The Call of Cthulhu and Other Tales of Cosmic Terror’ features tales of fantasy and horror from a master of the genre.

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This handsome gift edition brings together selected stories of Lovecraft’s iconic Cthulhu mythos, beautifully presented with a silver embossed cover design and stencilled page edges.

From the classic ‘The Call of Cthulhu’ to the eerie ‘The Shunned House’ these stories exemplify Lovecraft’s extravagant imagination. Terrifying rituals, grotesque comedies and tales of insanity form some of the best writing of the man who remade the horror genre in the early 20th-century.

Contains:
Dagon
The Call of Cthulhu
The Dunwich Horror
The Whisperer in Darkness
At the Mountains of Madness
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Haunter of the Dark

This luxurious treasury, complete with stencilled page edges, patterned endpapers and ivory pages, makes a wonderful gift edition for any lover of classic fiction.

ABOUT THE SERIES: The Arcturus Gilded Classics series presents luxury gift editions of classics works, printed on opulent ivory paper, featuring hardcover Wibilin binding, foil-embossed cover designs, beautifully designed end-papers and decorative page edges. These make perfect collectibles for lovers of classic literature.

Additional information

Weight 1.024 kg
Dimensions 22.8 × 18.3 × 3.2 cm
Author

Publisher

Arcturus

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

304

Language

Edition

Short stories

Dewey

813.52 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K