{"product_id":"the-thing-on-the-doorstep-and-other-weird-stories-isbn-9780142180037","title":"The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eA definitive edition of stories by the master of supernatural fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHoward 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 Penguin 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 \u003ci\u003eAt the Mountains of Madness\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003epresents the definitive corrected texts of these works, along with Lovecraft critic and biographer S. T. Joshi's illuminating introduction and notes to each story.\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 Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird StoriesIntroduction by S. T. Joshi\u003cbr\u003eSuggestions for Further Reading\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Text\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Tomb\u003cbr\u003eBeyond the Wall of Sleep\u003cbr\u003eThe White Ship\u003cbr\u003eThe Temple\u003cbr\u003eThe Quest of Iranon\u003cbr\u003eThe Music of Erich Zann\u003cbr\u003eUnder the Pyramids\u003cbr\u003ePickman's Model\u003cbr\u003eThe Case of Charles Dexter Ward\u003cbr\u003eThe Dunwich Horror\u003cbr\u003eAt the Mountains of Madness\u003cbr\u003eThe Thing on the Doorstep\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplanatory Notes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Penguin Horror Classics:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The new Penguin Horror editions, selected by Guillermo del Toro, feature some of the best art-direction (by Paul Buckley) I've seen in a cover in quite some time.” – Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Each cover does a pretty spectacular job of evoking the mood of the title in bold, screenprint-style iconography.\" – Dan Solomon, Fast Company\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":46305203323109,"sku":"NP9780142180037","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780142180037.jpg?v=1767741828","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-thing-on-the-doorstep-and-other-weird-stories-isbn-9780142180037","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}