Leslie S. Klinger has a new collected edition of Lovecraft tales, The Call of Cthulhu: And Other Stories. It’s billed as an “annotated primer” for Lovecraft, and is a cut-down version of his two-volume oversized Annotated H.P. Lovecraft. “Cut-down” here still means over 400 pages. The selection and ordering is sound, as an introduction for those new to Lovecraft.

Beware of what you’re getting from Amazon, though. As their buttons will happily switch you through to a shovelware Kindle book with the same title but not by Klinger. It appears the new May 2022 Klinger book is only available in paperback.

Thankfully the cover is classy and doesn’t have Cthulhu focused on menacing puny humans, as if he’s just a big dumb Godzilla-like monster. I also like how the ‘mountain’ aspect is conveyed.