American Supernatural Tales
$72.33
- Hardcover
432 pages
- Release Date
23 October 2013
Summary
Part of a six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro.
A stunningly creepy deluxe hardcover edition with spot gloss, black sprayed edges, black-stained pages, and black endpapers.
American Supernatural Tales is the ultimate collection of weird and frightening American short fiction. As Stephen King will attest, the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143122371 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0143122371 |
| Author: | S.T. Joshi |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 23 October 2013 |
| Weight: | 623g |
| Dimensions: | 217mm x 150mm x 40mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classic Horror |
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“The new Penguin Horror editions, selected by Guillermo del Toro, feature some of the best art-direction (by Paul Buckley) I’ve seen in a cover in quite some time.” – Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing
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About The Author
S.T. Joshi
S. T. Joshi is a freelance writer and editor. He has edited Penguin Classics editions of H. P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (1999) and The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (2001), as well as Algernon Blackwood’s Ancient Sorceries and Other Strange Stories (2002).
Among his critical and biographical studies are:
- The Weird Tale (1990)
- Lord Dunsany- Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination (1995)
- H. P. Lovecraft- A Life (1996)
- The Modern Weird Tale (2001)
He has also edited works by Ambrose Bierce, Arthur Machen, and H. L. Mencken, and is compiling a three-volume Encyclopedia of Supernatural Literature. He lives with his wife in Seattle, Washington.
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