The Dunwich Horror: And Other Stories (Penguin Gothic Classics) - Softcover

Lovecraft, H. P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141038764 ISBN 13: 9780141038766

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2008

Synopsis

Deadly forces are about to be awakened ...

In the degenerate, unliked backwater of Dunwich, Wilbur Whately, a most unusual child, is born. Of unnatural parentage, he grows at an uncanny pace to an unsettling height, but the boy’s arrival simply precedes that of a true horror: one of the Old Ones, that forces the people of the town to hole up by night, fearful for their lives, by day able only to trace the wreckage wrought by the gigantic, unseen monster.

In this and other tales of the macabre, H. P. Lovecraft weaves unearthly fantasies of creatures beyond conception – existing between the spaces of the dimensions we know.

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Review:

‘This is a story that shows us how the nastiest regimes are composed of real people. Judd has taken some unlikely ingredients – a bitter, senile old git, a brash young SS officer and Heinrich Himmler -and, briliantly, fashioned them into a touching, poignant story.’ Daily Telegraph

‘A haunting tribute to a near-forgotten figure... and an unusual and intelligent treatment of the Third Reich.’ Evening Standard, Books of the Year

‘Judd’s engrossing tale, rooted in actuality, teases out the mixed responses that can exist between, and within, people.’ Sunday Times, Books of the Year

About the Author:

H. P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island, where he lived most of his life. He wrote many essays and poems early in his career, but gradually focused on the writing of horror stories, after the advent in 1923 of the pulp magazine Weird Tales, to which he contributed most of his fiction. His relatively small corpus of fiction―three short novels and about sixty short stories―has nevertheless exercised a wide influence on subsequent work in the field, and he is regarded as the leading twentieth-century American author of supernatural fiction. H. P. Lovecraft died in Providence in 1937

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0141038764
• ISBN 13: 9780141038766
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 208