Guillermo Del Toro Puts His Touch on Classic Stories with Penguin Horror Series

Steve Barton   |  

Sep 18, 2013

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If Guillermo Del Toro is involved with something, you can be pretty sure it’ll be worth checking out. Up next for the visionary filmmaker? He wants to re-introduce us to some of his favorite classic horror stories!

As reported by Entertainment Weekly, Del Toro has partnered up with Penguin Classics to curate the Penguin Horror hardcover series, comprised of six books of classic horror fiction. Tales like Frankenstein and H.P. Lovecraft’s The Thing on the Doorstep are given new life in the series, featuring introductions by Del Toro.

You can expect all the books in the series to go on sale September 24th.

Check out the creepy cover art for the books below, illustrated by Paul Buckley!

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