Penguin Weird Fiction: a celebration of the very best of the weird a store of novels and tales
that for generations have delighted and horrified. Sometime around the turn of the twentieth
century something happened something... weird. In the dark halls of ivy-clad manors in the
ancient woodland escapes of New England a generation of authors were inspired to radically
reinterpret the horror and fantasy writing of the past. From the terrible plagues of Edgar
Allen Poe to the religious terror of May Sinclair and on to the awful tentacle-faced mythos of
H.P. Lovecraft this anthology celebrates the very best of this writing a collection of
brilliant tales that for generations have delighted and horrified. 'Escape from the
prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and
infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us and which things like deep woods fantastic
urban towers and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest . . .' H.P. Lovecraft
