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H.P. Lovecraft was the inventor of cosmic horror, of weird fiction
and the Cthulhu mythology. His stories, incubated by a lonely and
febrile childhood, found purchase in the fertile earth of pulp
fiction where he inspired many other writers, from Robert E.
Howard, to Robert Bloch and Clark Ashton Smith, many of whom also
collaborated on the several short stories, some of which are also
included here, in this special deluxe edition. This title,
alongside H.G. Wells Short Stories, is a companion volume to our
hugely successful Gothic Fantasy series of classic and modern
writers.
"The dreams were wholly beyond the pale of sanity . . . " Plagued
by insane nightmare visions, Walter Gilman seeks help in Miskatonic
University's infamous library of forbidden books, where, in the
pages of Abdul Alhazred's dreaded Necronomicon, he finds terrible
hints that seem to connect his own studies in advanced mathematics
with the fantastic legends of elder magic. The Dreams in the Witch
House, gathered together here with more than twenty other tales of
terror, exemplifies H. P. Lovecraft's primacy among
twentieth-century American horror writers. This volume is a
companion to the other two Penguin Classics edition of Lovecraft's
work: The Call of the Cthulhu and The Thing on the Doorstep. This
original collection presents the definitive texts of the work,
including a newly restored text of "The Shadow out of time" along
with S. T. Joshi's invaluable introduction and notes. For more than
seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic
literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700
titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best
works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers
trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by
introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary
authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning
translators.
Sixteen stories inspired by the 20th century's great master of
horror, H.P. Lovecraft, and his acknowledged masterpiece, 'At the
Mountains of Madness', in which an expedition to the desolation of
Antarctica discovers evidence of an ancient ruin built by horrific
creatures at first thought long-dead, until death strikes the
group. All but two of the stories are original to this edition, and
those reprints are long-lost works by science fiction masters
Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Silverberg.
In the second volume of the crticially acclaimed Black Wings series, S.T. Joshi - the world's foremost Lovecraft scholar - has assembled eighteen more brand-new and imaginative horror tales, inspired by the greatest writer of the supernatural H.P. Lovecraft.
Leading contemporary horror authors, including John Shirley, Richard Gsin, Brian Evenson, Rick Dakan, Jason V. Brock, Rick Dakan, Jason C. Eckhardt, Brian Evenson, Tom Fletcher, Richard Gavin, Caitlín R. Kiernan, John Langan, Nick Mamatas, Nicholas Royle, Darrell Schweitzer, John Shirley, Melanie Tem, Steve Rasnic Tem, Jonathan Thomas, Donald Tyson, Don Webb, and Chet Williamson, will draw upon themes, images, and ideas from the life work of the master of the genre to deliver a rich feast of terror.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft's unique contribution to American literature was a melding of traditional supernaturalism (derived chiefly from Edgar Allan Poe) with the genre of science fiction that emerged in the early 1920s. This new Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition brings together a dozen of the master's tales-from his early short stories "Under the Pyramids" (originally ghostwritten for Harry Houdini) and "The Music of Erich Zann" (which Lovecraft ranked second among his own favorites) through his more fully developed works, "The Dunwich Horror," The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and At the Mountains of Madness.
The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories presents the definitive corrected texts of these works, along with Lovecraft critic and biographer S. T. Joshi's illuminating introduction and notes to each story.
Since 1968, Republican presidents have occupied the White House far
longer than Democratic presidents, and recently Republicans have
controlled both houses of Congress as well. In spite of these
electoral triumphs, leading spokespersons on the right continue to
depict conservatives as an embattled minority. Lashing out at their
liberal opponents, sharp-tongued partisan advocates like Rush
Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and Sean Hannity never tire of issuing
jeremiads against what they perceive as the inexorable tide of
liberal abuses that threatens to overwhelm the Republic.
But if Republicans have won the battle at the voting booths, why is
the right so angry?
As S. T. Joshi reveals in this incisive profile of twelve leading
conservatives, the rage at the heart of the right is fueled by a
gnawing sense that conservatives long ago lost the hearts and minds
of the American people. Since the F.D.R. administration,
conservatives have unsuccessfully opposed legislative and judicial
reforms that today are considered so mainstream as to be, well,
"conservative." In effect, yesterday's liberalism is today's
conservatism, and this has been the direction of social and
political change since the age of the Model T.
Examining the writings of such conservative icons as Russell Kirk,
William F. Buckley Jr, Phyllis Schlafly, and nine others, Joshi
uncovers statements that most people today would consider not just
radical but outrageous:
In the 1950s, Russell Kirk opposed Social Security because he said
it was "un-Christian."
In the same decade, William F. Buckley Jr. argued against the
desegregation of public schools on the grounds that it would be an
infringement of states' rights (an argument also used a century
earlier to defend slavery).
In the 1970s, Phyllis Schlafly declared that women's liberation is
a "disease" and a "homewrecker."
Knowing that these positions are today indefensible, conservative
spokespersons have little recourse but to engage in passionate
invective that attempts to portray their opponents as extremists.
Joshi characterizes the aggrieved lament of conservatives as the
last gasp of those who know their ideas will be confined to the
dustbin of history.
Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of
twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series
design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback
Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers
competition For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the
Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Penguin's
iconic book design with twelve influential American literary
classics representing the breadth and diversity of the Penguin
Classics library. These collectible editions are dressed in the
iconic orange and white tri-band cover design, first created in
1935, while french flaps, high-quality paper, and striking cover
illustrations provide the cutting-edge design treatment that is the
signature of Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions today. The Call of
Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories Frequently imitated and widely
influential, Howard Phillips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre
in the twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and instead
envisioning mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a
chaotic and malevolent universe. This definitive collection reveals
the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and
establishes him as a canonical-and visionary-American writer.
As the second volume of S. T. Joshi's comprehensive biography of H.
P. Lovecraft begins, we find Lovecraft dwelling in misery in a
one-room apartment in Brooklyn Heights: his wife, Sonia, has had to
move to the Midwest for work, and he must rely on the companionship
of the Kalem Club, the informal band of friends in the New York
area. In 1926, in part through the intervention of his close friend
Frank Belknap Long, Lovecraft finally decided to return to his
native Providence, Rhode Island, effectively ending his marriage.
That return spurred the greatest spurt of literary creativity he
would ever experience: in less than a year, such works as "The Call
of Cthulhu," "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath," "The Case of
Charles Dexter Ward," and "The Colour out of Space" would emerge
from his pen, establishing Lovecraft as the leading weird
fictionist of his generation. In spite of his increasing poverty,
antiquarian travel occupied much of Lovecraft's time, and he gained
an impressive knowledge of such oases of antiquity as Charleston,
Quebec, St. Augustine, and Richmond. These voyages both renewed his
connection with the past and infused his literary work, as such
later tales as "The Whisperer in Darkness" and "The Shadow over
Innsmouth" drew ever more profoundly upon his far-flung travels.
Intellectually, Lovecraft evolved as well. Recent developments in
science confirmed his materialism and his atheism, and the onset of
the Great Depression gradually caused him to reassess his political
and economic theory; he emerged as a moderate socialist and
advocate of the New Deal. Late in life he became a giant in the
world of fantasy fandom--a development that foreshadowed his
worldwide fame in the decades following his early death.
From the depths of R'lyeh come twenty-one brand-new, utterly terrifying, and thoroughly entertaining short stories of horror and the macabre!
Taking their inspiration from works by Lovecraft himself, prominent writers such as Caitlin R. Kiernan, Brian Stableford, Ramsey Campbell, Michael Shea, Darrell Schweitzer, Donald R. Burleson, and David J. Schow delve deep into the psyche, expanding on concepts H.P. Lovecraft created and taking them in new directions.
The result is stories that are wholly original, some even featuring Lovecraft himself as a character. Black Wings editor S.T. Joshi is the recognized authority on all things Lovecraftian, and is famous for his restorations of Lovecraft's original works. He has assembled a star-studded line-up in a book that is essential for every horror library.
H. P. Lovecraft's brand of cosmic horror has long forced readers to an inexorable truth there are powers in the universe whose immensity dwarfs petty human conflicts. Inspired by Lovecraft and brought together by editor S. T. Joshi, the stories in Black Wings of Cthulhu 5 explore the very essence of fear.
Between these covers lie many of the finest Lovecraftian authors, including Sunni K Brock, Donald R. Burleson, Mollie L. Burleson, Nicole Cushing, Jason C. Eckhardt, Sam Gafford, Wade German, Cody Goodfellow, David Hambling, Lynne Jamneck, Mark Howard Jones, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Nancy Kilpatrick, W. H. Pugmire, John Reppion, Darrell Schweitzer, Jonathan Thomas, Donald Tyson, Robert H. Waugh, and Stephen Woodworth.
Through his collaborations with today's most talented and acclaimed
practitioners of Lovecraftian fiction, editor S. T. Joshi has made
the Black Wings of Cthulhu series essential for every library of
horror and the macabre. Volume four offers up seventeen new
masterpieces, each exploring the roots of fear employed so famously
by the master himself, H. P. Lovecraft.Between these covers there
lies a who's who of the supernatural, including Fred Chappell,
Jason V Brock, Gary Fry, Richard Gavin, Cody Goodfellow, Lois H.
Gresh, Caitli n R. Kiernan, Charles Lovecraft, Will Murray, John
Pelan and Stephen Mark Rainey, W. H. Pugmire, Ann K. Schwader,
Darrell Schweitzer, Simon Strantzas, Melanie Tem, Jonathan Thomas,
Donald Tyson, and Stephen Woodworth.
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Following the great success of the early Gothic Fantasy, deluxe
edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror and Science
Fiction, this exciting title in the series is packed with
swashbuckling and steam-punking up to your eyeballs. Adventures and
alt-historical tales from classic authors are cast with previously
unpublished stories by exciting budding contemporary writers.
By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood's writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, and horror. Here Blackwood displays his best and most disturbing work—including the title story, the inspiration for Val Lewton's classic film Cat People; "The Willows," which Lovecraft singled out as "the single finest weird tale in literature"; "The Wendingo"; "The Insanity of Jones"; and "Sand." This original Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics edition includes a fascinating Introduction and invaluable notes by S.T. Joshi.
Throughout his career as a literary critic, H. L. Mencken was
intent on elevating the bold, the daring, and the innovative over
the hackneyed, the trite, and the superficial, and his drama
criticism exhibits this tendency to the fullest. Though known
primarily as a newspaperman and commentator, Mencken also wrote
several one-act plays, as well as a full-length work. In The
Collected Drama of H. L. Mencken: Plays and Criticism, S. T. Joshi
has assembled for the first time Mencken s dramatic works,
comprising six one-act plays and the lengthy three-act play
Heliogabalus. These plays, which have never been reprinted since
their original appearances in newspapers or in Mencken s early
volume A Book of Burlesques (1916), exhibit Mencken s penchant for
satire and ridicule. Several of the plays, such as In the Vestry
Room and The Wedding: A Stage Direction, display Mencken s
oft-expressed cynicism about the institution of marriage. Another
related play is Asepsis, a satire on exaggerated concerns about
sexual health in young married couples. Other plays take aim at the
cultural deficiencies of the common people, such as Death: A
Philosophical Discussion, which relays the hackneyed reactions of a
group of mourners over the death of a friend. Mencken s most
significant play by far is Heliogabalus, a play he co-wrote with
his frequent collaborator, George Jean Nathan, in which Mencken
expresses his scorn of the Christian religion. The second half of
this book features a selection of Mencken s early writings (1905
17) on drama, most of which have never been reprinted. Various
essays on Shakespeare, Shaw, Synge, Strindberg, Ibsen, and others
exhibit Mencken s keenness as a literary critic and his
understanding of the aesthetic possibilities of the drama. With an
introduction by the editor who provides an overview of Mencken s
work as a dramatist and drama critic, this collection will be of
interest to amateur and even professional drama companies, theatre
historians, and of course, anyone interested in the writings of
Mencken.
Baltimore native Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) was an essayist,
literary critic, magazine editor, novelist, and journalist.
Starting as a reporter for the Baltimore Morning Herald at the turn
of the century, Mencken eventually became associated with the
Baltimore Sun and his work for the newspaper spanned five decades.
In H.L. Mencken: An Annotated Bibliography, S.T. Joshi provides the
most exhaustive and comprehensive bibliography of the writings of
H. L. Mencken ever assembled. It presents detailed information on
his book publications from 1903 to the present, with a full list of
editions and reprints. Most significantly, it presents for the
first time a comprehensive annotated listing of his magazine and
newspaper work (including more than 1,500 anonymous editorials for
the Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Evening Sun, and other papers, which
have never been listed in any previous bibliographies), a thorough
index to his book reviews, and a full list of interviews Mencken
gave during his lifetime. Word counts of nearly every item in the
bibliography have been supplied, and the book has been thoroughly
indexed by name, title, and periodical. Because every item has been
annotated, scholars and students can, for the first time, gain an
idea of the subject-matter of all Mencken's writings, especially
his magazine and newspaper work. The indexes will allow users to
locate any given item with ease. The chronological arrangement of
each section allows users to understand the growth and development
of Mencken's work, making this volume an invaluable resource.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born to a well-to-do family in
Providence, Rhode Island. As a child, he revealed remarkable
precocity in his early interests in literature and science.
Ill-health dogged him in youth, rendering his school attendance
sporadic; and in 1908 he experienced a nervous breakdown that
rendered him a virtual recluse for several years. In 1914 he
discovered the world of amateur journalism and began slowly
emerging from his hermitry. He wrote tremendous amounts of essays,
poetry, and other work; in 1917, under the encouragement from W.
Paul Cook and others, he resumed the writing of horror fiction, and
his career as a dream-weaver began anew. In 1921 Lovecraft met his
future wife, Sonia H. Greene, at an amateur journalism convention.
It was at this time that he began expanding his horizons, both
geographical and intellectual: he traveled widely, from New England
to New York to Cleveland; and he absorbed such literary and
intellectual influences as Lord Dunsany, Friedrich Nietzsche, and
Arthur Machen. In 1924 he and Sonia decided to marry, and Lovecraft
moved to New York to pursue his literary fortune. But, as the first
volume of this biography concludes, his metropolitan adventure
would be bittersweet at best. S. T. Joshi's award-winning biography
H. P. Lovecraft: A Life (1996) provided the most detailed portrait
of the life, work, and thought of the dreamer from Providence ever
published. But that edition was in fact abridged from Joshi's
original manuscript, and this expanded and updated two-volume
edition restores the 150,000 words that Joshi omitted and, in
addition, updates the texts with new findings.
Clark Ashton Smith was one of the most remarkable and distinctive
American poets of the twentieth century. His tremendous output of
poetry, totaling nearly 1000 original poems written over a span of
more than fifty years, is of the highest craftsmanship and runs the
gamut of subject matter from breathtaking "cosmic" verse about the
stars and galaxies to plangent love poetry to pungent satire to
delicate imitations of Japanese haiku. This edition prints, for the
first time, Smith's entire poetic work, including hundreds of
uncollected and unpublished poems. The poems have been arranged
chronologically by date of writing, so far as can be ascertained.
This first volume includes poetry from the first two to three
decades of Smith's career, when he published such noteworthy
volumes as The Star-Treader (1912), Ebony and Crystal (1922), and
Sandalwood (1925). Smith's early work was written under the
tutelage of the celebrated California poet George Sterling, but
Smith quickly surpassed his mentor in the writing of cosmic and
lyric verse. Smith's greatest poetic triumph, perhaps, was The
Hashish-Eater, a poem of nearly 600 lines that strikingly evokes
the myriad suns of unbounded space and the baleful monsters that
may lurk therein. But Smith could also write such touching elegies
as "Requiescat in Pace," a dirge for a woman whose death affected
him deeply. All poems have been textually corrected by consultation
with manuscripts and early appearances, and have been extensively
annotated by editors S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz.
This second volume of Clark Ashton Smith's complete original poetry
contains the poems he wrote in the decades following the death in
1926 of his early mentor, George Sterling. Although much affected
by Sterling's passing, Smith carried on in his poetic work, seeking
new modes of expression and expanding his range beyond the cosmic
and lyrical verse that had dominated his early career. Having
taught himself French in the mid-1920's Smith began composing
original poems in French. After focusing primarily on the writing
of fantastic fiction from 1925-35, he resumed his poetic output
with such masterworks as The Hill of Dionysus. In the late 1940's
he experimented with haiku, and in the 1950's having taught himself
Spanish, he wrote numerous original poems in Spanish. Also among
his later output are a number of witty satires on the vagaries of
modern poetry. In its entirety, Clark Ashton Smith's work stands as
one of the great literary contributions to twentieth-century
poetry. All poems have been textually corrected by consultation
with manuscripts and early appearances, and have been extensively
annotated by editors S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz. This volume
also contains an exhaustive commentary on all the poems and a
complete title and first line index.
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