The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories : Paperback : Penguin Putnam Inc : 9780143129455 : 0143129457 : 18 Oct 2016 : \"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\"--