Review: The Classic Horror Stories of H.P. Lovecraft, ed. Roger Luckhurst
Posted by James Campbell on April 08, 2013 in Reviews tagged with american gothic, Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft, Roger Luckhurst, weirdLovecraft, H.P. The Classic Horror Stories. Ed. Roger Luckhurst. Oxford University Press. 9 May 2013. Hardback / Kindle. (Since this review refers to the Kindle e-book edition, I apologise in advance for the lack of page references.) Out this May from Oxford University Press, The Classic Horror Stories of H.P. Lovecraft – edited by Roger Luckhurst of Birkbeck College, University of London – collects nine of the most significant entries in Lovecraft’s ‘Cthulhu Mythos.’ By equating ‘classic’ with ‘Cthulhu’ the book takes a firm but justifiable stance towards t
