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Horror

The call of Cthulhu and other weird stories

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  • 1999 first published
  • 420 pages
  • ★ 4.1 (17 ratings)
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Published in 1999, The call of Cthulhu and other weird stories is a horror story collection by H.P. Lovecraft. It deals with Cthulhu.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.1 out of 5 from 17 ratings, and 26 more have it on their want-to-read list.

It runs to roughly 420 pages — 7–8 hours of reading at an average pace.

About 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 envisioning instead mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. Love craft's preeminent interpreter S.T. Joshi presents a selection of the master's fiction, from the early tales of nightmares and madness such as "The Outsider" and "Rats in the Walls," through the grotesquely comic "Herbert West-Reanimator" and "The Hound," to the overpowering cosmic terror of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" and "The Call of Cthulhu." The first paperback edition to include the definitive corrected texts, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories reveals the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonical-and visionary-American writer.
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Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Subjects

  • Cthulhu
  • American Horror tales
  • Short stories, Single author
  • Horror

Quick answers

Who wrote The call of Cthulhu and other weird stories?

The call of Cthulhu and other weird stories was written by H.P. Lovecraft and first published in 1999.

What genre is The call of Cthulhu and other weird stories?

It is usually shelved as Horror.

How long is The call of Cthulhu and other weird stories?

The median edition has 420 pages, about 7–8 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to The call of Cthulhu and other weird stories?

Readers who like it often enjoy The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, The Green Mile and House of Leaves.

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