A definitive edition of Stories by the master of supernatural fiction 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 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.
A definitive edition of Stories by the master of supernatural fiction 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
