R PRE-INTERMEDIATE A I N B O W B1+ R Approx. number of headwords: 1000 beginner A1 (Breakthrough) Levels of accredited examination boards: elementary A2 (Waystage) Cambridge English: Trinity: City & Guilds (Pitman): ESB: Edexcel: pre-intermediate B1 (Threshold) intermediate B2 (Vantage) post-intermediate C1 (Effectiveness) Teacher s Resources available on line: Answer Key, Audioscripts, Summing-up Activities. Preliminary (PET) Grade 5, 6 / ISE I Intermediate Intermediate 1, 2 Elementary Weird Stories Five short stories by the great American writer of fantasy and horror fiction, who was E.A. Poe s follower and Stephen King s main inspirer: The Alchemist (his first tale written when he was 18), The Color Out of Space (one of the most famous short stories of cosmic horror), The Outsider (considered his best short story by many critics), The Thing on the Doorstep (shocking story of occultism and body transmigration), Imprisoned with the Pharaohs (commissioned by Houdini, the great illusionist famous for his apparently impossible escapes). The reader is accompanied by in-depth analyses on Lovecraft s themes (among which supernatural horror), his debt to his predecessors (Poe, Hawthorne, Bierce, Stoker), the gothic novel and the double , as well as his influence on writers, cinema, music and games. Howard Phillips Lovecraft Weird Stories B1+ Pre-Intermediate S A I N B O W S Weird Stories Howard Phillips Lovecraft