The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories

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 new Penguin Twentieth-Century 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 "At the Mountains of Madness". This collection contains: The Tomb Beyond the Wall of Sleep The White Ship The Temple The Quest of Iranon The Music of Erich Zann Under the Pyramids Pickman's Model The Case of Charles Dexter Ward The Dunwich Horror At the Mountains of Madness The Thing on the Doorstep