American Supernatural Tales by S.T. Joshi - ISBN: 9780143122371
Hardcover
Del Toro selects terrifying American tales from Poe to King, guaranteed chills.

American Supernatural Tales

$61.20

  • Hardcover

    432 pages

  • Release Date

    23 October 2013

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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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Critics Review

Praise for Penguin Horror Classics:

“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

“Each cover does a pretty spectacular job of evoking the mood of the title in bold, screenprint-style iconography.” – Dan Solomon, Fast Company

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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