“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”Įxcellent collection of Lovecraft's stories, you've got most of his best ones in this collection but it's such a big and somewhat cumbersome book. He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe.
Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.Īlthough Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore.
Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. 879-880).Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. Lovecraft Edited With An Afterword By Stephen Jones Illustrated By Les Edwards. Hoffman Price) - At The Mountains Of Madness - The Shadow Over Innsmouth - The Shadow Out Of Time - The Haunter Of The Dark - The Thing On The Doorstep - The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward - The Dream-quest Of Unknown Kadath - To A Dreamer - Afterword: A Gentleman Of Providence / Stephen Jones.
Night-gaunts - Dagon - The Statement Of Randolph Carter - The Doom That Came To Sarnath - The Cats Of Ulthar - The Nameless City - Herbert West - Reanimator - The Music Of Erich Zann - The Lurking Fear - The Hound - The Rats In The Walls - Under The Pyramids - The Unnamable - In The Vault - The Outsider - The Horror At Red Hook - The Colour Out Of Space - Pickman's Model - The Call Of Cthulhu - Cool Air - The Shunned House - The Silver Key - The Dunwich Horror - The Whisperer In Darkness - The Strange High House In The Mist - The Dreams In The Witch-house - From Beyond - Through The Gates Of The Silver Key (with E. This Tome Brings Together All Of Lovecraft's Harrowing Stories, Including The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Cycle, Just The Way They Were First Released. Lovecraft's Astonishing Tales Blend Elements Of Horror, Science Fiction, And Cosmic Terror That Are As Powerful Today As They Were When They Were First Published.
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