<DIV>Frequently imitated and widely influential, H. P. Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre for the twentieth century. Discarding witches and ghosts, he envisaged mankind as an outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe. S. T. Joshi makes his selection from the early tales of nightmares and madness to the overpowering cosmic terror of <b>'The Call of Cthulhu'</b>. This is the first paperback edition to include the definitive corrected texts of these classics of American fantasy fiction.</DIV>