{"product_id":"the-dreams-in-the-witch-house-isbn-9780142437957","title":"The Dreams in the Witch House","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The dreams were wholly beyond the pale of sanity . . . \"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlagued 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 \u003ci\u003eNecronomicon\u003c\/i\u003e, he finds terrible hints that seem to connect his own studies in advanced mathematics with the fantastic legends of elder magic. \u003ci\u003eThe Dreams in the Witch House\u003c\/i\u003e, gathered together here with more than twenty other tales of terror, exemplifies H. P. Lovecraft's primacy among twentieth-century American horror writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume is a companion to the other two Penguin Classics edition of Lovecraft's work: \u003ci\u003eThe Call of the Cthulhu \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Thing on the Doorstep\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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.The Dreams in the Witch House And Other Weird StoriesIntroduction by S.T. Joshi\u003cbr\u003eSuggestions for Further Reading\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Texts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePolaris\u003cbr\u003eThe Doom That Came to Sarnath\u003cbr\u003eThe Terrible Old Man\u003cbr\u003eThe Tree\u003cbr\u003eThe Cats of Ulthar\u003cbr\u003eFrom Beyond\u003cbr\u003eThe Nameless City\u003cbr\u003eThe Moon-Bog\u003cbr\u003eThe Other Gods\u003cbr\u003eHypnos\u003cbr\u003eThe Lurking Fear\u003cbr\u003eThe Unnamable\u003cbr\u003eThe Shunned house\u003cbr\u003eThe Horror at Red Hook\u003cbr\u003eIn the Vault\u003cbr\u003eThe Strange High House in the Mist\u003cbr\u003eThe Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath\u003cbr\u003eThe Silver Key\u003cbr\u003eThrough the Gates of the Silver Key\u003cbr\u003eTHe Dreams in the Witch House\u003cbr\u003eThe Shadow out of Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplanatory Notes\u003c\/p\u003eH. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth centuryÆs greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale. (Stephen King)\u003cb\u003eH. P. Lovecraft\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island, where he lived most of his life. Frequent illnesses in his youth disrupted his schooling, but Lovecraft gained a wide knowledge of many subjects through independent reading and study. 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 \u003ci\u003eWeird Tales\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eS. T. Joshi\u003c\/b\u003e is a freelance writer and editor. He has edited Penguin Classics editions of H. P. Lovecraft’s \u003ci\u003eThe Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), and \u003ci\u003eThe Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), as well as Algernon Blackwood’s \u003ci\u003eAncient Sorceries and Other Strange Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (2002). Among his critical and biographical studies are \u003ci\u003eThe Weird Tale\u003c\/i\u003e(1990), \u003ci\u003eLord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), \u003ci\u003eH. P. Lovecraft: A Life\u003c\/i\u003e(1996), and \u003ci\u003eThe Modern Weird Tale\u003c\/i\u003e (2001). He has also edited works by Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, and H. L. Mencken, and is compiling a three-volume \u003ci\u003eEncyclopedia of Supernatural Literature\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives with his wife in Seattle, Washington.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305535394021,"sku":"NP9780142437957","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780142437957.jpg?v=1767739082","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-dreams-in-the-witch-house-isbn-9780142437957","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}