H.P. Lovecraft
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| Title | : | The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre |
| Author | : | H.P. Lovecraft |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 406 pages |
| Published | : | October 29th 2002 by Ballantine Books (first published 1963) |
| Categories | : | Horror. Science Fiction. Classics. Anthologies. Gothic. Literature. Fantasy. Weird Fiction |
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“H.P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.”—Stephen King“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”—H.P. Lovecraft
This is the collection that true fans of horror fiction must have: sixteen of H.P. Lovecraft’s most horrifying visions, including:
The Call of Cthulu: The first story in the infamous Cthulhu mythos—a creature spawned in the stars brings a menace of unimaginable evil to threaten all mankind.
The Dunwich Horror: An evil man’s desire to perform an unspeakable ritual leads him in search of the fabled text of The Necronomicon.
The Colour Out of Space: A horror from the skies—far worse than any nuclear fallout—transforms a man into a monster.
The Shadow Over Innsmouth: Rising from the depths of the sea, an unspeakable horror engulfs a quiet New England town.
Plus twelve more terrifying tales!
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| Original Title: | The Best of H.P. Lovecraft |
| ISBN: | 0345350804 (ISBN13: 9780345350800) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Arkham, Massachusetts(United States) |
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It's hard to believe that I went so long without having read H.P. Lovecraft, considering that I love horror and most of my favorite horror authors are influenced by his work. For some reason I thought his stories would be hard to connect with - probably because of the whole "Cthulhu" / made up word thing. I found three of his short story collections at the library and chose to begin with this one largely because it contained the story "The Call of Cthulhu."The first few short stories reminded mesome of the stories were great, but all his protagonists were the same characters and it just got old after a while...
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn Try saying that backward (or forward, which is equally challenging).H.P. Lovecraft is definitely the granddaddy of Cosmic Horror and Weird Fiction. He is often mentioned in science fiction/fantasy/ horror related websites and forums, not to mention myriad other kinds of websites. Reading fans raving about his works and seeing the numerous fan arts online make many of us genre fiction enthusiasts want to start getting into his fiction to see
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Every Lovecraft fan would have their own opinions of what would constitute the best of HPLs work. To a large degree, however, this collection does include the most important essentials of his oeuvre, without which any review of his work would be incomplete. I have reviewed each story separately, except those which appear in other books Ive already covered.The introduction by Robert Bloch seems a bit dated today, as it tries to promote Lovecrafts literary merits at a time when little academic
Not well-appreciated in his own time, reclusive and eccentric New England writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft became a household word in the world of weird fiction after his death. His prose style was greatly influenced by Poe, and like Poe, he preferred natural causes for his horror ("supernatural," in one of the alternate titles listed above for this collection, means "uncanny" or "unearthly," not supernatural per se). While his genre was science fiction, he was wholly outside the optimistic and
Beautifully written horror that many imitate (ahem, Stephen King) but few can pull off. The real horror of Lovecraft isn't the scariness of the monsters or the gore, but concept that we are pointless blips of dust on the gaping maw of a chaotic, ageless, indifferent universe that constantly destroys itself for no reason at all. Each story reminds you of how puny and ignorant you are but that's a good thing because every character finds out a little too much and goes crazy, gets eaten,
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