The Call of Cthulhu & Other StoriesThis handy collectable classic joins the company of Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, and Edgar Allan Poe. H. P. Lovecraft was the inventor of cosmic horror, of weird fiction, and the Cthulhu mythology. His stories, incubated by a lonely and febrile childhood, found purchase in the fertile earth of pulp fiction where he inspired many other writers, from Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, to Clark Ashton Smith, many of whom also collaborated on several short